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Around 10 million worldwide Skype users lose the popular cheap internet calls service because of an unidentified fault.

Already, Gmail serves as a control panel, an always-open tab, for the loyal Google user. It offers quick and simple access to our email, contacts, calendar, documents, chat and more. Soon, it may be home to a Web-based telephony client.

Skype filed plans to sell up to an estimated $100 million of American depositary shares in an initial public offering as the Internet-phone company parent firm plans to convert into a Luxembourg-based stock company.

Motorola is exploring a roughly $4.5 billion sale of its business making set-top boxes and other equipment for cable and phone companies, the latest chapter in the struggling tech giant's effort to turn itself around.

Lou Carlozo: Saving money can be painless, once you jettison unnecessary fees.