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Google Music: Coming Soon, Kinda-Sorta-Maybe

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April 6, 2011
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Google Music: Coming Soon, Kinda-Sorta-Maybe Hot on the heels of the launch of Amazon's Cloud Drive, new signs of Google's music-streaming service are showing up around the Web. But will they actually amount to anything?
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Grooveshark App Booted from Android Market Over Copyright Concerns Popular music service Grooveshark has had its mobile app booted from Android Market for allegedly violating music copyrights.
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Google Chrome Gets Malware Download Alert The new tweak that is being rolled out to all users issues a warning when people are downloading a file associated with a blacklisted site.
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Anonymous Launches Attack Against Sony PS3 Websites Anonymous is attacking Sony's PS3 websites in a DDoS attack, in protest of Sony's pursuit of PS3 hacker 'Geohot'
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Epsilon E-Mail Hack: Intuit Warns TurboTax, Quicken Customers of Impact The maker of the popular TurboTax tax preparation program and the Quicken personal financial software was not among the more than 50 companies whose customer data was stolen, but it cautioned its users nonetheless.
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Motorola's Xoom and Atrix, Duds? Sales for the Motorola Xoom tablet and Atrix smartphones are "well below forecast" leading some to declare them flops.
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Smithsonian Adds to Robotics Collection The museum received a number of robotic technologies for its collection, including what may have been some of the smallest robots in the world.
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Epsilon E-Mail Breach: Quick FAQs Here's what you need to know about the Epsilon breach, which some people are describing as the worst of its kind.
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Netflix Picks Up 'Mad Men' Netflix struck a $75 - $100 million deal with Lions Gate Entertainment to gain streaming rights to the popular TV drama.
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Facebook to Host Town Hall With President Obama President Barack Obama will site down for a discussion with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company COO Sheryl Sandberg at 4:45 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, April 20 for a town hall style meeting.
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Amazon: The Company Shoppers Love the Most A survey shows that Amazon ranked at the top of businesses Americans want to do business with, ahead of Google, UPS, FedEx, 3M, among others.
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HP's Rumored Stingray Phone May Lack Physical Keyboard All of HP/Palm's phones have used physical keyboards, including the upcoming Veer and Pre 3, so this change would be a departure for the company.
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Facebook Flops: The Social Network's 10 Biggest Mistakes Facebook is far from perfect--but here are the ten most significant blunders that the company has made in its short history.
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GameStop Mulls a Tablet, Will Soon Buy Yours GameStop's president wants to sell tablet games that are more expensive than the 99-cent offerings that dominate smartphone app stores, but cheaper than $60 console games.
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AMD Closes in on Intel With Move to 32nm Chips Intel may have released 32-nanometer chips first, but rival Advanced Micro Devices has followed suit and is looking to make up some ground.
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Twitter Redesigns Homepage Yet Again Five years into its existence, Twitter is still trying to explain to potential users why they would want to join the site in the first place.
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Next Call of Duty: Black Ops Premium DLC Leaked Australian GAME retailer accidentally displays advertisement for next Call of Duty: Black Ops premium downloadable content.
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Judge Tosses $625.5M Patent Judgment Against Apple A federal judge yesterday tossed a $625.5 million patent infringement judgment against Apple, discarding a 2010 jury verdict that said the company violated patents in its iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac OS X.
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Dish Network Buys Blockbuster, Plots a Second Act for the Video Rental Chain Satellite TV giant Dish Network buys faded video rental champ Blockbuster. What's next for Blockbuster?
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Isis Mobile Payment Pilot to Launch in Salt Lake in 2012 The system will test the Isis trial's primary technology, near field communications, and include tests of multiple wireless handsets using multiple operating systems.
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Google Music: Coming Soon, Kinda-Sorta-Maybe Hot on the heels of the launch of Amazon's Cloud Drive, new signs of Google's music-streaming service are showing up around the Web. But will they actually amount to anything?
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