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British pest control to parcel delivery company Rentokil Initial has chosen Google to manage its electronic communications, making it the largest company to deploy Google's Apps worldwide to date.

Apple announced Monday that over 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store since the e-commerce site's launch in July 2008, and the pace continues to accelerate, according to chief executive Steve Jobs.

Users of Microsoft Office or Windows Live will soon have the option of trying out Microsoft's new Office Web Apps.

Symbian, the mobile phone web OS Company for a large number of the world's phones will begin working on the development of mobile applications.

Don't know which wine to have with a pepperoni pizza? There's an app for that -- as well as websites and Twitter.

After more than 5 years, Google's Gmail is finally out of beta including, taking with Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.

Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk were all stripped of their beta tags on Tuesday as Google upgraded the pieces of its Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) suite to the status of a finished product.

The U.S. government's new technology czar said on Thursday that new mobile phone applications could spur private investment in high-speed Internet connections, but Washington would also play a leadership role.

Yahoo is adding a number of third-party apps and widgets to several of its properties, including the popular Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo services in a bid to increase the appeal of its Website by opening it up to other applications.

AOL's MediaGlow on Monday said it has launched its free Pixcetera application on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch, which enables users to experience amazing photography.

It's unclear how big a role the mobile division will play under CEO Carol Bartz as it has been difficult to monetize so far.

On Thursday, Google expanded its free software suite, called Google Apps, to the enterprise market, allowing co-workers to collaborate on documents, calendars or presentations and to chat via instant messaging.

Google is releasing a new application for the iPhone that combines all of the search giant's online tools into one simple interface, optimized for Apple's venerable portable device.

Google Inc is moving to attract big business users to its Google Apps service just a year after entering the software market, as the company said on Tuesday it is offering stepped up e-mail management services at no additional cost to paying users.

Google is offering a way to extend its calendar, e-mail, and instant messenger services to customers currently without a registered domain name.