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Social network giant Facebook unveiled its intention to roll out its virtual currency Facebook Credits in September in a move to become the default online currency, rivaling leaders like PayPal. 

Google has announced Squared service, the company's Labs project introduced about a year ago, to be integrated into its search engine. Squared was designed initially as aimed at building collections of facts from the web for any topic specified by the user. 

Finally! Microsoft has already started rolling out of its latest version of Xbox 360 firmware.

The updated Xbox 360 version will let upgraded consoles use any connected USB Mass Storage devices.

Up to 16GB of any connected drive can be assigned for the Xbox to use and allocating the storage to the console won't zap data already on the drive provided there's sufficient free space for the Xbox partition.

Starbucks, that has been testing new mobile payment system in the great number of its stores, has deployed it already in over a thousand shops that are within Target locations.

Starbucks is using a system that generates a blocky two-dimensional bar code-like image that is displayed on phones' screens. Users wave the image under a scanner at the point of sale to access funds stored on a gift card.

Good news came from Microsoft. The first one is that Microsoft has lost its appeal of a lawsuit brought by the Canadian company, i4i. So, users don’t have to turn in their copies of Office 2007. This lawsuit, a patent battle over a feature few business users ever see, will cost Microsoft $290 million to settle.