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Microsoft Office XP and Vista SP1 will be history soon, as it will exit support by next week, according to the company's published schedule.

In an effort to push its all new Google+, the search engine giant plans to retire several non-Google brand names like Picasa and Blogger and rename them as Google products.

Facebook is scheduled to launch something awesome on Wednesday, but hasn't divulged what exactly it is. Speculation is circulating that Facebook will launch a new video chat product powered by Skype that works in browser.

Google is re-branding Picasa and Blogger as ‘Google Photos’ and ‘Google Blogs’ respectively to further unify its new social networking site Google+ into its gamut of products.

Netflix Inc is expanding its online video service to 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, sending its shares to an all-time high.

Google's Android phones continued its march to dominance. For the three months ended May 2011, it has 38 percent of the US smartphone market share, up from 33 percent in February 2011.

Google Inc's Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter.

Apple has released the Gold Master version of OS X Lion to developers, signaling that the official release of OS X Lion is round the corner.

Netflix Inc is expanding its online video service to 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, sending its shares up more than 6 percent.

The fate of Google's new social app reaching a global stable of mobile users is in the hands of Steve Jobs.

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List of Top 10 most dedicated Mac OS X apps that will also be useful with Mac OS X Lion.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced that it will finally support Research In Motion Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry Bridge for the PlayBook. While access to information of a BlackBerry will come at no extra cost, AT&T plans to charge $20 per month for tethering to access web content.

South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Tuesday it had approved U.S. online auctioneer eBay Inc's move to merge its two e-commerce units in the country.

On July 4th morning, President Barack Obama allegedly died from two gunshot wounds while campaigning in Iowa, according to a series of six messages on the Fox News Twitter account, which was hacked by a group that identified themselves as Script Kiddies. In reality, President Barack Obama celebrated Independence Day at the White House, and praised military service members who have served and sacrificed for the United States in protecting the freedoms of its citizens.

The question whether the TouchPad is capable enough to take on the iPad 2 does not arise. What is of interest is how big a dent it will create in the sales of iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1, the duo that rule the roost in the tablet market.

Google+, which had generated ‘insane demand’ within a couple of days of its launch, could easily beat the Facebook frenzy of more than 500 million users, if it could get access to the information of the long preserved friends in Facebook.

Google+ on July 4 has revealed a statistics which says that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+ than Google CEO Larry Page.

A universal iOS app has been submitted to Apple’s App Store.

There haven't been any radical political or administrative changes happening in China, recently. Nor have there been any reports that said China is reconsidering its Internet censorship regulations. The country notorious for jailing bloggers and blocking Web sites, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, is planning to buy a significant chunk of Facebook's stake, according to a BusinessInsider report.

There are some game spoiler videos on YouTube and the full single-player campaign and some multi-player options are available for streaming.