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Loaded: Google Music plays up sharing, free storage

2011-11-17
it's thursday november seventeenth 2011 I'm Richard carrion Cena calm and it's time to get loaded google music has arrived and it's coming out swinging at iTunes okay so here's the breakdown of how it works you can buy music from google music from three of the four major music labels it will be in the android store you can upload up to 20,000 songs in your personal library to google's online servers for free so you can access your music from any computer or android-based device like a phone or tablet Google will recommend songs based on what you and your friends like a friend can let you listen to a song or album they own so there's also this feature for independent musicians called artist hub bands distribute their own music and set their own song prices they just have to pay Google $25 to create a page and google keeps thirty percent of the sales from the songs and to lure you in there's some exclusive music on there like six never released concerts from the Rolling Stones a Coldplay concert and Busta Rhymes has a single available for free t-mobile customers can have whatever they buy in google music builder ectly to their tmobile account and they get extra perks like today there's free music from maroon 5 Drake and Busta Rhymes to show disapproval of the anti-piracy bill being heard in Congress several websites are symbolically blacking out their front pages or throwing up pop-ups on the screen the reason being these companies say the bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act would allow for Congress to censor the Internet so sites like tumblr or blacking out all their texts and others put up fake banners blocking access to the site so it would show what it would be like if the internet was censored and thereby encouraging visitors to contact their representatives but some sites like Boing Boing how to take it down because some users couldn't bypass the block banner and actually use the Site when you see the salvation army bell ringers in front of stores is holiday you don't need to put cash in their buckets you can give them your card the charity is using square the mobile payment card swiper that attaches to mobile devices the Salvation Army is testing this new technology because it says many people just don't carry cash anymore AOL instant messenger yes that's right we're talk about AOL is getting a refresh the biggest revamp it is done in years to add more pizzazz to the fading service it will show web-based photos and video in the chat window and sync your conversations across various devices and that buddy list it's now your aim friends listed in order by who you most recently chatted with Amos been struggling to stay relevant as more people use facebook and google mail for chatting and currently aim is in third place behind yahoo messenger and windows live messenger comscore estimates aims visitors dropped sixty-five percent the past year it had about 4.9 million users last month those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded goodbye finals done
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