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Google Music - Needs Music, Great Idea

At last, we can put the Google Music rumors to bed, because Google has finally launched the darned thing. But you can't try Google Music yet, because the service is invite-only. For now, just imagine a web-based version of iTunes. You store all your songs online, and then they're accessible from any Flash-equipped web browser, along with Android phones and tablets.

Yesterday The New Yorker unveiled a new deal that allows print subscribers full access to their lovely iPad app. The oddity that caught everyone's eye was their pricing model: for the app-only version, The New Yorker currently costs $59.99 for a one-year subscription, while the print version plus the app is a whole twenty bucks cheaper at $39.99.

Microsoft just bought Skype for $8.5 billion. Not to get too personal, but that's many, many billions more than I make in a year. But unlike buying a human writing machine like yours truly at an affordable price, Microsoft is paying $8.5 billion for something called Skype. Here's what it's getting.

Remember Kazaa?

Sony hasn't updated its PlayStation blog since last Friday, May 6, though we've heard bits and pieces through official (as well as unofficial) channels suggesting the PSN as a whole could remain in the fetal position through May 31 (Sony now denies this, though in that sense that the PSN's up date could be sooner, could be later).

BEIJING: A Chinese grandmother aged 65-year-old from Beijing has amazed everyone after her energetic, Michael Jackson-inspired dance routine on television show, 'China's Got Talent'.

Bai Shuying has become China's latest sensation after displaying her dance moves in the first episode of the new season.

LOS ANGELES - "Thor" kicked off the summer movie season by smashing the competition at the box office with a $66 million opening weekend.

The 3-D action picture from Paramount, based on the Marvel comic, was by far the No. 1 movie, according to Sunday studio estimates.

ISLAMABAD: A ten-day "PNCA Drama Festival 2011" will start here from May 10 to 19 at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) with participation of various theater groups.

The groups will perform during the festival with their new plays based on social issues and providing the residents of twin cities with quality entertainment experience.