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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...

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...

MUMBAI, India – Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms Thursday to fight piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world’s largest film markets. The alliance comes as Hollywood tries to tap global markets more aggressively and as Indian movie studios grow in size and stature — narrowing the gap between Indian and U.S. fil...

Earlier this week we cited a Mozilla wiki as saying that the next round of Firefox updates would happen March 20 (today). Currently that wiki says March 30. The wiki entries for Firefox 3.6.2, 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 all say “Final release: March 30″. SeaMonkey 2.0.4 and Thunderbird 3.0.4 are also scheduled for release that day. Looking ahead, the platform wiki says that the schedules for the next versions (3.5.10 and 3.6.3) will be posted...