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The Shared Inbox add-on for Google Apps Business accounts is designed to provide improved help desk and customer support ticket features for businesses using Gmail as their main communications platform.

You may recall, back in 2005, that the tech world let out a massive "Huh? when eBay acquired Skype for somewhere around $2.6 billion. eBay kept insisting there were synergies there, and lots of people tried to puzzle out what those might be.

Calling people to discuss auctions? Auctions embedded in your phone? There was some vague talk about China, but it amounted to "lots of people use Skype in China," and didn't get much further than that.

It seems you can blame the internet for just about anything these days. Some conservationists are now blaming the internet for increasing the threats to various endangered species.

The argument is that because people can buy and sell such endangered species online, it's increasing the threats to those animals.

One of the best things about Twitter is the way that it allows content and information to spread quickly across the network from person

A major downside of Twitter’s lightning-fast communications platform: malicious links can spread more quickly than ever before.