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Loaded: Sony Music Unlimited makes debut

2011-02-17
it's Thursday februari 17th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded Sony is launching its own music service today called Sony Music Unlimited a basic level of service costs 399 per month and gives you curated music channels a lot like Pandora although you can skip or fast-forward songs a premium tier costs 999 per month and lets you listen to whatever music you want on whatever device you want including ipad or iphone so you don't have to own this music you just call it up whenever you want it the store launches today in the US Australia and New Zealand meanwhile sony says it has no plans to pull music from its label from itunes you might want to pay attention to news from the FBI today the government agency is going to outline a wiretapping policy that enables the FBI to tap into digital communication like email and social networking obviously these are great tools if you're a crook not so great if you're a crime fighter the bureau calls this a going dark problem it means illegal activity goes on in places that they can't see the FBI solution to this problem may include intercepting and scrambling voice over IP calls also worth noting and looking into this story I found out that the FBI has a weekly podcast did you know that google announced google one pass a subscription service that's a lot like apple's subscription service which was announced on tuesday google's one pass is for newspapers and magazines to channel their subscriptions and delivery through google at the frequency and price that the publisher sets while Apple is keeping thirty percent of revenue Google is only keeping 10 leaving ninety percent to the content publishers it's powered by Google Checkout so that's how readers will pay I hate to do it but I think it's worth reporting that there are new iphone rumors circulating this time the rumor is about a smaller iPhone that Apple may be planning during its summer iPhone refresh the chipmaker arm has indicated that Apple may be planning a $99 iphone that would be smaller and have fewer features The Wall Street Journal speculates this is because Apple feels threatened by the prevalence of Android which I don't really buy but those are the rumors and a the rumor mill only gets crazier this time of year so get ready Warner Brothers is trying something new the studio is selling movies as apps this is kind of interesting if you want to buy the movie inception or the Dark Knight you can buy it as an app on iPhone iPad or iPod touch the app itself is free and it has bonus features about the films like trailers trivia soundtrack and more but if you want to buy the actual feature film you can do that within the app through iTunes your iTunes account will be charged and you won't have to leave the app to watch the movie only these two movies are available as apps for now and they cost between nine ninety nine and 11 99 and think twice before you hack your playstation 3 Sony issued a warning on Wednesday that anyone caught hacking the ps3 will be banned for life from Sony's online services forever or at least as long as you're using that digital ID and finally more Facebook friends may mean more anxiety in your life psychologists from a university in Scotland found that there is an inverse relationship between number of facebook friends and contented this they found that there is negative effect of having too many Facebook friends because of a pressure to stay in touch and present yourself in a certain light in your digital world they said that Facebook can keep you in a kind of quote neurotic limbo I could have told you that that's your news of the day if you want any more about our stories go to cnet com / loaded I'll see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for cnet and you've just been loaded
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