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Apple to shut down Lala

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: April 30, 2010
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 [...]
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Google Apps Marketplace – the App Store of the Cloud

By Ian C. Anderson | Published: March 11, 2010
It’s hard to deny that Google borrowed the idea for their Android Marketplace directly from Apple’s successful App Store for iPod, iPhone, and (soon) iPad.  The idea of a centralized store for (almost) all available products is very appealing to the consumer.  From one interface, you can browse products within categories, compare them with competing products, [...]
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