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
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