San Francisco  - In a move that could ring in big changes in the way customers use their mobile phones, internet telephone company Skype will introduce its free software for the iPhone on Tuesday, with versions for other smartphones following in May, the New York Times reported Monday.

Skype already boasts that 400 million customers around the world are using its peer-to-peer telephone system that allows free calls to other Skype members and cheaper rates than other phone companies for calls to landlines and mobile phones.

Washington  - The struggling US car industry will be given one last chance to restructure operations or lose the government's support, President Barack Obama announced Monday, declaring that General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC had so far failed to prove that they can survive.

In a dramatic government intervention in the industry, Obama called for a series of changes in the two companies' outdated business models and forced out long-time GM chief executive Rick Wagoner, who will be replaced by the company's president Fritz Henderson.

Washington - The struggling US car industry will be given one last chance to restructure operations or lose the government's support, President Barack Obama announced Monday, declaring that General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC had so far failed to prove that they can survive.

In a dramatic government intervention in the industry, Obama called for a series of changes to the car industry and forced out long-time GM chief executive Rick Wagoner, who will be replaced by the company's president Fritz Henderson.

Washington - The struggling US car industry will be given one last chance to restructure operations or lose the government's support, President Barack Obama announced Monday, declaring that General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC had so far failed to prove that they can survive.

In a dramatic government intervention in the industry, the White House forced out long-time GM chief executive Rick Wagoner, who will be replaced by the company's president Fritz Henderson.

Washington  - A man who went on a shooting rampage at a small-town nursing home in North Carolina was apprehended by a local police officer who stormed the facility of his own accord, police said Monday.

Seven elderly people and a nurse were killed Sunday in the shooting at a health and rehabilitation centre that has shaken the tiny town of Carthage in the US state of North Carolina.

According to the New York Times Monday reports, for the Auburn Hills, Michigan-based Chrysler to qualify for additional loans from the US government, it must strike a deal with Italian auto biggie Fiat SpA by April 30. As per the terms of the alliance, Fiat would receive a 35 per cent stake in Chrysler, but would provide no cash infusion.

In case Chrysler, the third largest automaker, fails to materialize the projected pact with Fiat by the set deadline, it would receive no more aid from the government, because the Obama administration would not consider it a viable stand-alone company.