By Angie Onkst

The rumors  has now turned into the reality. Facebook is now all set to launch @facebook.com email services to its 500 million social network users.  Facebook, which understand that it can’t win just with email only client, has launched the messaging platform which combines social messages, mobile text messages, instant messages and last but not least email..

According to the company, all 500 million Facebook users will be offered the email service. However, the service will be option for user to register.

Access to @facebook.com will be done initially by invitation. But in a few months, it will be accessible to all Facebookers. Literally at a click away.

Even though Facebook tried to describe the service as different from regular email service. The Facebook messaging service is still designed to steal the users from Gmail and Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.

By Angie Onkst

Microsoft has announced its brand-new webstore for PC Games as part of Windows Marketplace.  The company said that service will be launched in the mid of next month.  “Microsoft Corp. today announced the Games for Windows Marketplace, a new online PC games store that combines the convenience of the Web with the power of Games on Demand online distribution.” the press release says.

According to reports, the Webstore will have  great number of PC Games including “Flight Simulator, Grand Theft Auto III, Lego Universe, Max Payne, and others.  “Games for Windows Marketplace will launch with a managed portfolio of 100 top-quality titles “, said Microsoft in the PR.

User will need Windows Live ID to access that new service by Microsoft. Windows Live ID is the same account which is used by Microsoft’s users to access Hotmail and other Live services.

By Susan Angel

Microsoft and Facebook announced a partnership on Wednesday which will give Software Giant anaccess to public Facebook data to show it as part of Bing search result.

For example if a user will search on Bing for information about a movie, he/she will get related links shared by his/her friends in Facebook in addition to regular web search result. With the merger, the two companies intend to fight a common enemy: Google.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, noted that the action announced on Wednesday only deepened the partnership with Microsoft. In 2007, Microsoft paid $240 million for $1.8% stakes of the social network. Since then, the two companies worked together for multiple features of their products.

A controversial ad for a website that encourages married couples to indulge in secret affairs caused massive uproar in America.

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The next generation of Kindle has reportedly sold more units in four weeks than its earlier version in the same period since its launch four weeks ago, the company announced.

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Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported Monday.

Skype allows users to make free internet telephone and video calls to other Skype users and charges relatively low rates for calls from computers to land and mobile phones. The company is facing stiff competition from Google which last week launched a similar telephony service for users of its Gmail system.

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Tweens are a lot more adept at using Internet and find it a source of happiness, new research has shown.

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New York, Aug 28: Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s son posted on Facebook that his father has a lot of women who are his enemies.

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New Delhi: With the domain name bandwidth for web addresses expected to get exhausted by March 2012, the government has drawn up a roadmap for the transition into a newer version of Internet protocol that will enable unlimited options for users.

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Washington: If you are among those who look for medical symptoms online for every problem, then beware, for at least 20 percent of the time your search will lead you astray, according to a new study.

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