London - Nimbuzz on Tuesday introduced its free mobile VoIP and instant messaging service, which enables free calls, instant messaging and group chat on over 500 supported handsets across services including Skype, Yahoo, AIM, Google Talk, MSN and 23 social networks including Facebook and MySpace. Available now as a beta in the U.K., the service works on Nokia Symbian Series 60 devices connected to a 3G or Wi-Fi network, and also offers a hybrid VoIP for GPRS/EDGE, allowing users to make international mobile calls at local dial-in cost.

Foster City, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) (NYSE: SNE) said on Monday that it sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 consoles during the holidays, along with 1.4 million PSP handhelds and 1.3 million units of the PlayStation 2. The holidays timeframe was defined as Nov. 23 through Dec. 31.

Los Angeles - Apple (NASD: AAPL), AT&T (NYSE: T), Skype (NASD: EBAY) and cable TV operators including Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) and Cablevision have been sued for patent infringement by Klausner Technologies, over patents that cover certain attributes of voicemail that give users visual notification of incoming messages, and allow selective retrieval of messages.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s MySpace online social network announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Skype, the Internet telephone service owned by eBay, to enable MySpace's 110 million users and Skype's 220 million users to call each other for free using Skype.

Luxembourg - Skype, the Internet telephone service unit of eBay, on Tuesday added the ability to share online video in their Skype chats, and add videos downloaded from Dailymotion and Metacafe to their Skype "moods," the name for a Skype user's online profile.

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced on Wednesday that the Skype Internet-based telephone service is now available on its Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, allowing users to make voice calls over the Internet via a Wi-Fi connection with the device. "Our users are no longer just using Skype on their computer desktops. With the growth of mobile devices and WiFi, consumers expect to be connected wherever they are, at the office, at home or on the move," said Eric Lagier, Skype's head of business development for mobile.

San Francisco - Joost, the ad-supported, peer-to-peer streaming TV service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, has been added as a defendant to a year-old lawsuit filed by StreamCast Networks over the rights to the service's underlying FastTrack peer-to-peer technology, CNET News.com reported.

Cambridge, Mass. - iSkoot, a provider of mobile Internet communications technology, has raised $7 million in its second round of venture capital, led by Charles River Ventures.

New York - The developers behind the Kazaa file-sharing service and Skype Internet telephone service on Tuesday launched beta testing for Joost, their new online TV service.

London - Skype, a provider of Internet telephone services, plans to launch a broadband TV service next year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

The European entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have assembled a team and are now in negotiations with partners to launch a new TV venture called “The Venice Project”. Zennstrom and Friis have an impressive track record after creating two of the world’s most popular webservices in the file-sharing network Kazaa and IP-telephony network Skype.