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• Victorian App My State winners

  An application focused on teaching people how to recycle has taken out the first prize in the Victorian Government’s App My State competition.

• The web will unify fragmented mobile OS world, says Opera

  Norwegian browser maker Opera has high hopes for the combination of mobile browsers and HTML 5, which will let web-based applications compete better with native applications, according to co-founder Jon von Tetzchner.

• 5 free apps to help manage Twitter

  Remember that Hubspot statistic that revealed that almost 56 per cent of Twitter accounts are not following anyone? Or the one from Harvard Business Review which stated 10 per cent of active Twitter users are responsible for 90 per cent of all the tweets? If you have a Twitter account, the chances are good you've accumulated a sizeable number of deadbeat users.

• Ballmer's 10 years with Microsoft and the Internet

  Ten years ago on Jan. 13, 2000, Microsoft's Bill Gates turned over the CEO reins to Steve Ballmer, who emphasized then that the Internet would be the target for much of the company's new software development efforts.

• Google adds geolocation to Gears offline plug-in

  Google has upgraded with a geolocation API its Gears browser plug-in, which is designed to let users work with Web-based applications when they aren't online.