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    How Microsoft Will Change Skype

    How Microsoft Will Change Skype "A very small percentage of Skype's 170 million users actually pay to use the service. Skype's IPO plans indicate that this was not a pressing concern. "But the company was looking to expand video advertising within Skype itself -- and CEO Tony Bates...
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    How Planetary iPad app makes iTunes fun

    When iPad music app Planetary launched in early May, it quickly caused a buzz among app developers and music fans. Developed by San Francisco firm Bloom Studio, it turns users' music collection into a 3D universe where every planet is an album. These kinds of 3D user interfaces can be...
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    UK top 10 video games

    UK top 10 video games chart, week ending 7 May http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/may/09/video-games-chart-top10
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    Assassin's Creed: Revelations announced

    The fourth title in the hugely successful Assassin's Creed series is coming out in November. Subtitled 'Revelations', it is apparently the final instalment of the game to feature dashing renaissance assassin, Ezio, who arrived in Assassin's Creed 2 and took on the Borgia clan in Assassin's...
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    Apps rush: 4th & Mayor, Music WithMe, Imaginary Range and more

    4th & Mayor While Windows Phone 7 users await the updated version of Foursquare for Microsoft's platform, there's an alternative. 4th & Mayor uses the Foursquare API, and wraps a suitably slick WP7-like user interface around it, including comments on check-ins, adding photos to places and...
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    Nokia's slide worsens as Android and Apple thrive in western Europe

    More evidence of Nokia's deepening problems have emerged, with new data showing that in the first three months of 2011 it was pushed into second place by Samsung as the biggest vendor of mobile handsets in western Europe, and overtaken by Apple for first place in the smartphone market in the...
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    Apple has toppled Google as the world's most valuable brand

    The launch of the iPad helped Apple topple rival technology company Google in 2010 to become the world's most powerful brand, according to a survey. WPP-owned research company Millward Brown puts Apple at number one in its annual top 100 global brand power list, Brandz, up from third place in...
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    A game that Sony must win

    If you were looking for the digital equivalent of an oil spill, hackers breaking into a company and lifting personal details of up to 100 million people would probably qualify. And so Sir Howard Stringer, the Welshman who is the first non-Japanese to lead Sony in its 65-year history, finds...
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    Apple iPhone sparks fight in Chinese shop

    A fight broke out between an employee and a customer at an Apple store in China's capital amid a frenzy to buy the newly launched white iPhone 4, a witness said. Wang Ming, 30, said the scuffle at the Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun district on Saturday was between a "foreign" Apple staffer...
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    "3D" transistor technology

    What Intel announced last week is a new "3D" transistor technology. 3D here doesn't refer to images but to a design and manufacturing technique: Making transistors in three dimensions, as opposed to today's "planar" technology where the microscopic silicon circuitry is laid out on a flat...
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