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Google’s Chrome Browser Challenges Microsoft’s IE8

Does the world need yet another Web browser? Google thinks so and planned to make its beta version of the door to the World Wide Web available on Tuesday.Google did not say what time Tuesday the new browser, dubbed Chrome, would be downloadable in more than 100 countries. But analysts were to get a sneak peak at Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters at 11 a.m. Pacific time, according to Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Research.

“Until people really have a chance to download and use Chrome, it’s difficult to say whether or not it’s going to be a significant player,” Sterling said, noting Google’s servers could crash in the wake of millions of people trying to download the new browser. “Chrome could have a Safari-like share, an Opera-like share, or less. Then again, Google has some pretty massive distribution and it could gain adoption globally.”

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Apple Close to Inking iPhone Deal in China

Apple’s iPhone has sold by the millions in many parts of the world, but China is perhaps the most notable exception. Now reports from China’s government-controlled media indicate the popular mobile device could soon make its way to the Asian nation.According to the AFP, the 21st Century Business Herald, a Chinese state-controlled financial newspaper, reported that talks between Apple and China Mobile, the world’s largest cell-phone carrier, are in the “final stages.”

“Steve Jobs and I hope the iPhone will enter China as soon as possible,” China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou told reporters at the ITU Telecom Asia 2008 exhibition in Bangkok on Tuesday. “We are discussing this issue, but we do not have an agreement.”

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