When Apple launched the App Store alongside the iPhone 3G in July, 2008, it offered both a platform and distribution hub for developers to easily write and monetize software, and effectively created a new economy that a study estimates has generated about 466,000 jobs.

Google Inc., seeking to get more of its desktop-computer software onto mobile devices, introduced a test version of its Chrome Web browser for the latest Android operating system.

Pictured: The Chrome Web browser looks good on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.

by Nathan Eddy
eWeek

More Chinese are using the Internet than ever before, with more than 500 million users in China accessing the Web, according to a report by the state-run China Internet Network Information Center. The report said the number of people using the Web rose 12 percent in December to 513 million people.

by Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor
Telegraph

The instant messaging and video calling application was to have been built in to windows Phone by the end of the year, Windows Phone boss Joe Belfiore had said. Now, however, vice-president of the Skype division at Microsoft Rick Osterloh says it will be available "soon".

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Popular online shoe retailer Zappos.com said late Sunday that hackers had accessed its network, stealing customer account information from as many as 24 million customers.

The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why -- in great detail.

Google and Microsoft are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of businesses, government agencies, and schools across the globe, each touting its own suite of business applications as the greatest thing since sliced bread.