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You know what you love about the iTunes App Store: You enter your payment information once, and then immediately, all of the world's digital content is available at your finger tips.

An Apple patent gives us some clues about the cloud-based iTunes we're all expecting any moment now--namely, how it'll make streaming content a seamless experience.

What's Google's new cloud-based music service got in common with Lady Gaga? Word of a forthcoming ad shot last weekend in NYC and pairing the tech and fame monsters might offer clues. Today at Google 's I/O conference, the company unveiled Google Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that enables users to store songs in a digital locker and stream them to any Android device--phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops

Finally! Some more substantial evidence that Google is readying a music service! For years , rumors have been trickling in that the search giant plans to create a cloud-based subscription music service that would store all your songs in a "digital locker." But until now, the rumors have amounted to little more than, well, rumors. Now we've learned two more reasons why prospects of a Google music service are looking increasingly more likely. First, Google confirmed it had acquired mobile music startup PushLife for $25 million

"Steve Jobs loves talking about trucks," says Bill Nguyen, serial entrepreneur and founder of online music service Lala . "What he says is that in the industrial age, trucks were awesome because we just had to move stuff around. All you ever needed was a truck.

The long-awaited New York Times digital subscriptions paywall has been revealed and, at first glance, it seems to be exactly how Apple would like it to be. Print purists will be pleased it's more expensive than the paper edition.

University-backed research inspires a game where users crush virtual cigarettes--and, in turn, their own bad habit.

Small announcements by online video players Rovi and Vimeo are harbingers of seismic shifts in the way we find TV shows we like. Here's a peek at the new plumbing pumping life into web TV recommendations

The Groupon competitor joins Apple, Zynga, and Lady Gaga, among others, in seeking cash for relief efforts. Not long ago, Groupon came under fire for Super Bowl ads that appeared to make light of serious situations abroad. And even if Groupon had offered support for the very causes it appeared to poke fun at, the damage was done.

The fantasy of buying a Slurpee with nothing more than a dramatic wave of your iPhone 5 seems to be coming true. But like hydrogen cars and hoverboards, electronic wallet technology has a long, long way to go