A cloudy week in the care home. Apple's iCloudius has donned the black jumper to forecast Apple's latest glue for all its devices and services. It's lite cloud really, with intermittent patches of native app sunshine. A few miles north at Mountain View, Google is overseeing heavy cloud formation with the imminent arrival of the first Chrome OS computers. Also mentioned in dispatches: Nokia (oh dear) and Facebook is getting too big for its boots.
Most weeks the codgers' care home is a quiet sort of place - the clocks tick, the meals are brought, the bed pans are emptied and life goes on in a calm and measured way. But this week... this week it was all go! Google actually came up with dates for a couple of Chromebooks and it launched its music locker service. But the big news, the news calculated to get some of the more excitable residents choking into their cornflakes, was that Microsoft had bought Skype.
News Headlines: Microsoft buys Skype; Google opens its music locker; First Chrome OS Chromebooks announced This week: ON Voicefeed is a visual voicemail app with a difference. Developed by a subsidiary of mobile telco Orange, it allows iPhone users to customise their greeting according to who is calling - better yet, Orange is offering it 'over the top' to any iPhone user. Leila Makki spoke to company boss Giles Corbett to find out more.
