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Lala, a cloud-based music service that I previously blogged about, was acquired by Apple last December. Today I received an email stating that Lala will be shut down as of May 31st.
Previous to the Apple acquisition, Google was extensively using Lala for their new music search feature. The folks at Apple saw the potential for [...]
If you know me, you know I’m an advocate for using Google’s suite of web apps. I use Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chrome, Google Reader, Google Voice and Google Docs on a day-to-day basis. In the past five years, I’ve moved more and more of my life into my Google account. I like the apps [...]
Cloud computing. You’ve probably heard the term. Maybe you haven’t. How does Wikipedia define it?
Cloud computing is a way of computing, via the Internet, that broadly shares computer resources instead of using software orstorage on a local PC.
Okay, Ian. So your stuff is stored on the internet instead of your local PC. What’s the big deal?
The big deal [...]
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Apple to shut down Lala