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Skype: millions downloaded new iPhone 3G app in days

Millions of consumers have downloaded a Skype Web telephony application that launched Sunday, allowing users of Apple Inc iPhone to use privately held Skype's service over the cellular network for the first time, a Skype mobile executive said on Wednesday.

Nearly 5 million downloaded Skype iPhone 3G app

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Nearly 5 million consumers have downloaded a Skype Web telephony application that launched Sunday, allowing users of Apple Inc's iPhone to use privately held Skype's service over the cellular network for the first time, Skype said on Wednesday.

Google sets late fall release for Chrome

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Google expects to release its Chrome computer operating system in the late fall, a top executive said on Wednesday, as it aims a competitive strike at rival Microsoft's Windows.
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Apple's Steve Jobs finds Foxconn deaths troubling

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs finds troubling a string of worker deaths at Foxconn, the contract manufacturer that assembles the company's iPhones and iPads, but said its factory in China is not a sweatshop.
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Yahoo forecasts revenue growth up to 10 percent

Yahoo Inc said it could return to double-digit revenue growth in the next few years, as the Internet pioneer revamps its network of websites to attract users and advertisers in a shifting Internet industry.
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Facebook boosts privacy controls amid criticism

Facebook is beefing up privacy protections on the world's most popular online social network, addressing mounting pressure to better secure personal data exchanged among its nearly 500 million members.
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BBC launches new iPlayer with links to rival sites

British state broadcaster the BBC launched a new version of its popular iPlayer Web video service with prominent links to rivals' sites, as it waits to see if the new coalition government will limit its funding or powers.
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Microsoft Xbox, phone chief out as unit struggles

Microsoft Corp's Robbie Bach, head of its video games and mobile phones unit, is retiring in a management shuffle, as Chief Executive Steve Ballmer tightens his grip over a division steadily ceding ground to rivals.
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Microsoft Xbox chief out as unit struggles

Microsoft Corp's Robbie Bach, head of the video games and mobile phones unit, is retiring in a management shuffle, as Chief Executive Steve Ballmer tightens his grip over a division steadily ceding ground to rivals.
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Facebook CEO: privacy controls missed the mark

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the Internet social network will roll out new privacy settings for its more than 400 million users, amid growing concerns that the company is pushing users to make more of their personal data public.
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Microsoft to shake up phone, Xbox unit: report

Microsoft Corp is set to overhaul management of its division focused on mobile phones, videogames and other consumer devices, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Nokia and Yahoo in maps, e-mail deal

Yahoo Inc and Nokia unveiled a wide Internet services deal, including maps and e-mail service, as the two battle new rivals on the wireless market.
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Google tries where others failed: shaking up TV biz

Google TV, a service that will bring the Web to television screens, is likely to create more headaches for broadcast and cable executives already concerned with being sidelined by free online video shows on computers.
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Norway's Opera moves data processing to Iceland

Norwegian browser developer Opera Software is moving its data processing capacity to a newly-built center in Iceland, one of the first foreign investment deals for the crisis-hit island as it tries to rebuild its economy.
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Opera browser enjoys EU download boom

Opera Software has seen daily downloads of its browsers in European countries as much as triple after Microsoft started to give consumers greater access to rival browsers.
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Up to 20 bidders interested in Novell: report

As many as 20 bidders are interested in buying software company Novell Inc , which has put itself up for sale and is this week accepting bids, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Google unveils Web app store for games

Google showed off a new online store on Wednesday for consumers to purchase games, magazines and other applications through its Chrome browser, in a move to give the search giant a central role in the next generation of Web media and entertainment.
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VCs see Android gaining on iPhone

Google Inc is posing a bigger challenge to Apple Inc in the mobile world as more and more start-ups develop applications for Google's Android software, venture capitalists said on Tuesday.
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Twitter expects hundreds of advertisers

Twitter, the rapidly expanding microblogging service, plans to have hundreds of advertisers using its new ad system in the fourth quarter as the company ramps up plans to become a self-sustaining, profitable business.

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