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Loaded: Microsoft buys Skype

2011-05-10
it's Tuesday mate end I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded Microsoft has agreed to buy video conferencing giant skype for 8.5 billion dollars now this is big news for anyone with an xbox 360 as microsoft CEO steve ballmer has said the company will integrate skype technology with the xbox 360 and kinect google is getting ready to launch a test version of a new digital music service that will allow users to upload their own library to the company's servers and access them from anywhere on a connected device music beta by Google will first be available by invitation only but you can request access by heading on over to music google com Consumer Reports has just published a study claiming 7.5 million facebook users are under the site's minimum age requirement of 13 the survey falls in line with similar ones conducted discovering thirty-seven percent of 10 to 12 year olds are on the social networking website of course this is a difficult issue to enforce is the only users being weeded out are those who have difficulty subtracting 13 from 2011 YouTube is expanding its movie rental library the company looks to add roughly 3,000 new titles from studios like NBC Universal Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers and some of the site's 20,000 plus partners are also ramping up their production of original content which youtube says will be arriving in the coming year over 23,000 people may soon be getting notifications that they are being sued for downloading the semester Stallone film The Expendables a federal judge has agreed to allow the company the US copyright group to subpoena ISPs all told up to 140,000 people may be targeted across the country adobe has released three new photoshop apps for the iPad the first called easel is a multi-touch paint program for five dollars Adobe color lets designers create color themes for three dollars and finally Adobe NAB lets users control Photoshop remotely from an iPad for only two dollars those are your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded
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