A website used to co-ordinate computer attacks on Sony and other big companies by members of Anonymous has itself come under assault in what security experts and veterans of the organisation see as evidence of a split within the hacking group.

Even the access to paying customers is hard to justify. The terms of the deal mean that for each Skype customer, Microsoft is paying about $1,000. And on average, those customers are worth a profit of about $30

Microsofts announced that its bought VOIP chat service Skype for $8.5 billion. The press release just released by MS says that the program will support Xbox and Kinect, as well as connect Skype users on Xbox Live.