Skype can be downloaded onto computers, mobile phones and other connected devices for free at www.skype.com.

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Mobile phones are in effect handheld and connected computers and hold great potential in this role, since businesses in promising areas such as payments and banking, healthcare, and entertainment require combining the services of multiple providers.

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As is the case with free videos on YouTube, the pay channels will be available for viewing on computers, mobile devices and Internet-connected TVs.

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Beginning early 2012, previous series of BBC shows such as "Torchwood" and "Spooks" will be available for Netflix members to watch instantly in the UK and Ireland streamed over the Internet to connected TVs, tablets, game consoles, computers and mobile phones.

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This is a reflection of the fact that the audience is now spending more time on their computers, mobile phones, iPads and other connected devices than on their TVs or reading print newspapers and magazines.

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Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 300 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices.

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The arrangements will allow Netflix to provide its new customers across the pond access to a wide variety of movies to watch on their computers, mobile devices, gaming consoles, and internet-connected televisions.

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He also pointed out that Facebook now has more daily users via mobile devices (phones and tablets) than it does via traditional computers connected to the Web.

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