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Loaded: Amazon party in the cloud

2011-03-29
it's Tuesday March 29th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded amazon went ahead and launched its cloud music service called Amazon Cloud Drive for now this is only for music it lets you upload all of your music to Amazon's own servers and then you can play that music any time you have a web connection or an Android device it accepts AAC and mp3 formats if you're not on a mobile Android device you can play your music in just about any browser you get five gigs of storage for free upgradeable to 20 gigs with the purchase of just one album more storage can be purchased starting at twenty dollars for 20 gigs per year you can find out more at amazon com / cloud drive sprint would like to put the brakes on the ATT acquisition of t-mobile this is a surprise to no one sprint released a statement this week that urges the US government to block what they are calling an anti-competitive acquisition that would quote harm consumers and harm competition at a time when this country can least afford it end quote sprint argues that the merger will undo nearly 30 years of work by the government to modernize and open the communications markets the New York Times became a paid site this week amazon announced that customers who already subscribed to the paper through the kindle can also read it on the internet it isn't exactly free just another part of the service that kindle users already pay for facebook is going to continue renting movies after testing this last month the new movie soon to be available in your Facebook account will be to Harry Potter movies Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets life as we know it Yogi Bear and inception these movies cost around 20 facebook credits and you can access them within 48 hours of your rental Netflix can now stream paramount movies in Canada this is a five-year deal that brings over 350 new movies to the service in addition to exclusive subscription TV rights to all first-run films this is more paramount content than netflix customers in the u.s. can access rumor has it the news corp wants to give the online video site VEVO control of my space remember that News Corp put my space on the chopping block in February VEVO is owned by three music labels so their interest in the site would obviously be for music if this is not a fit rumor also has it that myspace has had up to 20 other potential buyers all interested that's your news of the day I'm Natali Morris for cnet and you just been loaded
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