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Music-loving Linux users will be happy to know that Canonical announced today the official launch of the Ubuntu One Music Store public beta. Like the iTunes Store and the Zune Marketplace, the Music Store will let users purchase and download songs and albums from a wide selection. The Ubuntu One store is powered by 7digital, an online music distributor that offers over four million DRM-free songs in the MP3 format (at bit rates starting at 256...

BEIJING – Google Inc.’s partial withdrawal from China brought condemnation and signs of pressure from the government Tuesday while leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether the company’s new offshore search engine site would be blocked by censors. Google’s decision to move most of its China-based search functions from the mainland to Hong Kong opened a new phase in a two-month-long fracas pitting the world’s most po...

SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google’s disdain for China’s Internet rules with the company’s desire to profit from an explosively growing market. Google’s decision comes after an impasse pitting the world’s most powerful Internet co...

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt has banned international calls made through mobile Internet connections, one of Egypt’s top three mobile phone operators said on Tuesday, which would include internet Skype calls. “The National Telecom Regulatory Authority issued a decision to stop VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and we stopped it on Saturday,” Vodafone Egypt’s external affairs director Khaled Hegazy told AFP. The ban applies to...

Microsoft’s data center of the future will be more like a trailer park. Only the concrete pad will need to be built on-site, with everything else shipped in as a pre-manufactured unit. That’s a step beyond the current approach, used in places like the company’s massive new Chicago data center, where Microsoft has the servers shipped in a container but still requires a traditional building to provide water and cooling. A proof...