According to a recent report from Om Malik over at GigaOm, Google wasn’t the only company interested in getting their hands on Motorola Mobility, Microsoft were also interested in purchasing Motorola and their wide range of mobile patents.

It looks like Microsoft were more interested in the patents that Motorola owned, than the actual whole company and the hardware they produce, this could have been the reason that Motorola chose Google, as Google will continue to run Motorola as a company that produces hardware.

Had Microsoft got their hands on Motorola, and the 17,000 plus patents for mobile devices, this would have been bad news for Google’s Android OS, and according to the report, the talks between Google and Motorola only started five weeks ago.

Microsoft announced a while back that it would be killing off the Zune and concentrating its efforts on Windows Phone 7,Microsoft has released an update for some of the existing Zune HD apps as well as releasing some new Zune apps.

The existing apps to be update are the Shuffle by Album, Zune Reader, Penalty! Flick Soccer, Email, and Echoes, and they have also released a range of new applications.

the new apps released for the Zune include Finger Paint, Calendar, Trash Throw, Slider Puzzle, ColorSpill, Splatter Bug, Vine Climb, Decoder Ring, and Tug-O-Wa.

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Skype has today rolled out a new version of its Android Skype application to 2.1 which brings with it video call support for an additional 17 of the most popular Android devices.

But even if your Android phone is not listed, if you are using Android 2.2 (Froyo) and above, you should still be able to enable video calling in your Skype settings. If you can not see the video call settings on your device then unfortunately at the moment your Android smartphone is not compatible.

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Microsoft launched its new online Office 365 service last month aimed at professionals and business and of course as a competitor to Google’s online Gmail and documents service.

Well this week Microsoft showed a comic 50′s sitcom styled videos aimed at highlighting a few of the pitfalls of using Google’s Gmail service, using a new character called "Gmail Man” which was shown at the Microsoft Global Experience to Microsoft employees. Watch the leaked video of ”Gmail Man” in action after the jump.

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