Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.

The new e-mail-to-phone connection is one of the features the Internet media giant plans to add as it makes available to the more than 250 million Yahoo Mail users a new version of the world’s most popular e-mail program in coming weeks.

Source: Yahoo News

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Taiwan’s Acer on Monday said it will buy Gateway for $710 million, creating the world’s No. 3 PC maker, as Acer doubles its presence in Gateway’s lucrative but highly competitive home market.

Acer said it would pay $1.90 per Gateway share, representing a premium of 57 percent over Gateway’s last closing price.

Source: ZDNet

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Someday, you might hook into the Internet through solar power.

Orlando, Fla.-based Solis Energy has created a portable, uninterrupted power supply for Wi-Fi routers that harvest their energy from the sun, according to Robert Reynolds, CEO of the company.

Source: NDNet

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