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windows live messenger is putting up its away message forever I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene at update Windows Live Messenger is a goner microsoft announced that it will kill life messenger early next year in order to get everyone using skype for instant messaging users will be able to transfer their contacts in the latest version of skype and this Skype app does work with more devices like the iPad and Android tablets there's a windows phone 8 version of skype on the way but there's no word on when it will arrive in the windows App Store the goal for Microsoft is to have you run skype on your machine all day long and use it as your main chat service not just for video and voice calls the new Xbox SmartGlass app is now available for Apple devices the app turns an iOS device into a second screen for navigating the xbox dashboard you can use the screen keyboard for faster typing so you don't have to buy one of those keyboard accessories and some games have extra features for the second screen like halo 4 and dance central 3 and if you're wondering about when we'll see an app for Microsoft Office well it could be early next year that's according to a report from the verge it said the app would launch for Apple and Android devices but you might need a subscription to office 365 iOS users can also get a sony reader app for the first time there's no word from sony on why it took so long to have its own reader app for apple amazon has the kindle app and there's the nook and Kobo app so yeah anyone with a sony reader account you can finally access your books on an Apple device and speaking of digital books DC Comics pants can now read weekly digital issues in more ways besides the comiXology or DC comics app for the first time you can get weekly single issue comics in the ebook stores readers can find new issues for 70 titles in the kindle store apple ibookstore and the nook book store one comic you can see now is Action Comics 14 where astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a cameo to help Superman find his home planet of Krypton but he did actually find and track down a Krypton like system in our universe if you have a telescope you can check it out it's a red dwarf in the constellation Corvus just you know 27.1 light-years from Earth that's your tech news update for today you can find links to all of today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget area you