Stories by Loek Essers

Hotmail more popular than Gmail in Europe, comScore says

Microsoft's Hotmail is the top Web-based email client in Europe with 108.2 million unique users during June, a spokeswoman for research firm comScore said on Wednesday. Google's Gmail ranked second with 74.7 million users.

UK clears Facebook acquisition of Instagram

The U.K Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has reviewed the anticipated acquisition of photo sharing service Instagram by Facebook and decided to approve the merger, an OFT spokesman said on Wednesday.

New open source Calligra Suite release enhances ODF document support

Calligra has published the second stable release of its open source suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets and a sketching program. The new version greatly improves the support of Open Document Format (ODF) documents, said one of its main developers on Tuesday.

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