Facebooks astonishing new feature to be Skype video chat?

It seems the "awesome" feature due out this week from Facebook Seattle will be unveiled at a press conference on July 6. The new feature will apparently be an in-browser video and voice chat feature, built in collaboration with Skype, if reports citing insider sources are to be believed. The invite for the conference can be seen below, and certainly, it seems to have something to do with chat.

There will apparently also be a desktop component for the software, based on the number of recent desktop software hires at the Seattle office, something that will probably integrate Facebook into Skype. For now, whether this will be part of Skype, or an added update, is yet to be confirmed. Features such as News Feed, and Phonebook look to be part of the integration.

This is not the first time that Facebook and Skype have partnered, with talks rumoured since last year. All this is made even more interesting by the fact that Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Skype, and that it also happens to be a major stakeholder in Facebook. Seems like a win-win situation.

Samsung breaking records with Galaxy S II, sells 3 million in 55 days.......!!!

The Samsung Galaxy S II has been an immensely popular phone with both critics and users ever since its release nearly two months ago, and now, we are seeing some numbers to back up that statement. Samsung has announced it has managed to sell 3 million Galaxy S II phones in the 55 days that have elapsed since launch, going ahead and breaking Samsung's own product sale records. Doing some quick math, that comes down to nearly 50,000 devices being sold each day, the world over.

Talk about no supply problem and product shortages! Samsung also revealed that the most phones sold were in the European territories. All this, without the Galaxy S II being sold in one of the world's biggest markets for smartphones and Apple's primary target for the bestselling iPhone - the United States of America. Truly astounding...

We won't be surprised if the device manages to break the original Galaxy S phone's (and its family's) total sales records, very soon. Speaking of families, Samsung also recently introduced a low-cost version of the Galaxy S II, called the Galaxy Z, which is surprisingly well-endowed for a cheaper alternative.