Skype CEO Tony Bates has issued an update via the company blog advising that videoconferencing services are back online after this weekís outage. This follows the return of Skypeís voice and regular video services on Thursday. CEO Tony Bates also explained that only outstanding service to be returned is Skypeís offline IM mode and that it would be restored shorty. He also added that company is also working to add robustness of its backend infrastructure to avoid a recurrence of this weekís events.