Ever, since Skype acquired Qik, it was somehow clear that they'll add sooner or later video messages to its Skype service, which was so far about real time voice and video telephony. And today, Skype announced "Skype Video Message" which is said to come now out of preview as a full-fledged (and free!) feature in Skype for Windows, Skype for Windows 8, Skype for Mac, Skype for iPhone, Skype for iPad, Skype for Android and Skype for BlackBerry (but not Skype for Windows Phone). With Skype Video Message, it's possible to record and share a personal video message, even when recipient isn't available aka online. However, recipients will receive the message as soon as they sign into Skype again and will to view your video message.

The word is on the street, that Facebook's mysterious June 20 event is about a Vine-like video feature for Facebook's (sill popular) Instagram - so far - photo only service. If true, we won't see an RSS service as so far expected. Twitter's Vine, which was just recently made available for Android (following its previous iOS only introduction), allows to record short 6 seconds movies which then can be shared via Vine, as well as - for sure - via Twitter. It became quite popular the other days for citizen journalists, covering the latest developments in Turkey, around the Gezi park and in Istanbul in general. According to TechCrunch, a recent leak indicates that Facebook was internally testing Instagram video.

As Brian Hall, General Manager Microsoft Surface, unveiled in a blog post this morning, Microsoft is releasing a couple of major improvements for its Windows 8 and Windows RT based Surface tablets. According to Hall, this includes improvements to WiFi connectivity. While there were improvements back in the March update that reduced the instances of "limited connectivity", the development team went even further now to minimize these events from the Surface side. Furthermore, Microsoft has published a new driver for the Surface USB to Ethernet adaptor for Surface Pro to allow direct Ethernet connection to a wired network, including the ability to PXE boot.

Remember yesterday's announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Zoom "smartphone" with optical zoom and more? Sure you do and while the Galaxy Zoom isn't the successor of last year's launched Galaxy Camera, Samsung Electronics' CEO himself, Shin Jong-kyun, confirmed that the Korean electronics giant plans to release a replacement of the Galaxy Camera - the "Galaxy Camera 2" at next week's Galaxy and Ativ event in London. He literal confirmed journalists that also Samsung's latest mirrorless camera will run on Google's Android OS. However, he has yet not indicated if the "Galaxy Camera 2" will also feature 2G/3G or if it will again only feature WiFi (which might make more sense).

Over three years ago, Google introduced its Google Clout Print solution for Google Chrome which later became also compatible with with the mobile versions of Gmail and Google Docs, allowing users to print from their mobile devices. In general, Google Cloud Print is a service that allows any Cloud-Print-aware application on any device (which needs to be connected to the Internet) print to any printer - by "only" transmitting your documents to Google. And while Google Clout Print was so far on Android devices only available for Gmail and Google Docs, Google has now released a stand-alone  Android app which allows to print "virtually" any file.