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Google launches cloud music service in beta
The web giant is set to launch an unlicensed beta of its Google music service that will allow people to upload their music libraries to the company’s servers ( ZDNet UK – Application Development )
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A user’s guide to age: We can’t truly become ‘amortal’
If you lived to, say, an active, sentient 120 or more, you’d want to die anyway from sheer irritability, says one of the characters in the great American poet/novelist Randall Jarrell’s 1954 novel of campus life, Pictures from an Institution. Things would repeat themselves, the great cycle of life – hatched, matched, dispatched – would continue and you’d be out of sync. Seen it all before. Fed up.
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The guerilla roots of the Skype calling service
In buying Skype, Microsoft is getting one of the rare companies that has turned its name into a verb, like Xerox or Google. “Let’s Skype” is a phrase understandable, with slight translation, in much of the world.
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