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Google last week released a new extension for Google Chrome that will help you quickly access your AdSense earning reports without leaving the page you are currently reading.

Orange has struck a deal with Wikipedia to make its digital encyclopaedia available free of data charges to millions of mobile phone users across the Middle East and Africa.

The mobile phone operator, which claims that the partnership is the first of its kind in world, has 70 million customers across Africa and the Middle East.

However, the ability to access the internet, and websites such as Wikipedia, is currently limited to about 10 million Orange customers who have mobile devices with 2G or 3G capability.

Less than 24 hours after the World's largest online protest, the war against online piracy has taken yet a new twist as one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.

An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy.

Announced by Apple in October last year, the latest model of Apple's iPhone started selling in Uganda last Friday, thanks to Orange Uganda. The iPhone 4S will be available starting at Shs. 2,399,000/- ($992)  for the 16GB model, 2,699,000/- ($1,117) for the 32GB model and 3,099,000/- ($1,283) for the 64GB model in all Orange Uganda retail stores and online at www.orange.ug.