Skype has released successive updates for it's Windows and Mac clients, offering a host of new features that are well worth upgrading for.

After recent disappointing releases, Skype seems to have gone that extra mile with this update in order to please it's users.
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Yesterday it emerged that Google have suspended their realtime search service at http://www.google.com/realtime. ...

For too long, Google has consistently tried it's hand at social, and for too long has consistently failed. Notably Google Buzz, Wave, and Orkut have all flattered to deceive.

However, this could be about to change with the launch of Google+.
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Baidu, the web behemoth from China is buddying up with Microsoft to help bolster their English language offering, namely search results.

Microsoft, who has been making giant strides with it's Bing search offering, will start to serve results for Baidu users searching in English by the end of the year.
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Apple have announced a new service to allow for easier management of files across devices.

iCloud is the culmination of years of work which began with construction of a giant data centre in Maiden, North Carolina.

Designed to store a user's documents remotely, and allow for easy access from a computer, phone or other device, iCloud is Apple's vision of future computing.
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