Google Rumored to Be Announcing the Release of Cloud Music Service at the Annual Developer’s Conference on Tuesday

The search engine giant company, Google, has decided to conquer few more markets to take over the internet; a report by Wall Street Journal reported that Google could defeat all its rival efforts and launch the online music service just as early as Tuesday. It was mentioned that since the service is being released earlier, it might just be as fragile as Amazon's "cloud" service, which is highly criticized but still somehow allows users to store digital music online.

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WSJ claimed that its anonymous sources have informed on Monday that Google, just like Amazon, has not yet acquired proper licenses from the prominent and relevant record companies, but the company has decided to launch it services without it anyway. Thus this will, however, limit the user to only the "streaming mode" if they have to counter a piracy lawsuit afterwards. This new-born service of Google is rumored to be announced official in public at the annual developer’s conference in San Francisco, and perhaps its release will be initiated in the testing phase, WSJ wrote. Releasing in test phase implies that it will become accessible to the general public at a later date but will only be accessible to limited users in advance.

HP Offers 3G Mobile Broadband Service with Its New Upcoming Elitebook Series of Business Laptops

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It was announced by Hewlett-Packard, this Monday that it is going to offer pay-as-you-go 3G mobile broadband services with its latest upcoming business laptops. HP has been considering many offers and service to attach with their PCs, and make it more like a package deal. The broadband service will be of DataPass, and be sold as a package with its new 3G-enabled Elitebook business laptops, which were also announced on the same time. It was added that the service will give access to 3G data networks anywhere in the U.S., and the user will not even have to even sign any kind of, monthly or yearly, contract with a wireless carrier directly.

The DataPass service will be automatically purchased along with the laptop, as the user will not be required to even pay a penny, not even for any activation fee, declared the HP spokesman, Mike Hockey. He said that this service will come in handy for a quick access to the Internet, especially in places where it is relatively expensive otherwise, like airports or hotels. Additionally, he said, the users can separately buy a US$5 data plan accounting for 75MB of data over 5 hours, or the $10 package with 150MB of data over 3 days. Furthermore the US$20 package offers 450MB of data over 14 days, and the maximum $30 package allows 1GB of data over 30 days.

U.S. Cellular Announces Its Intention to Soon Launch 4G LTE Network by the End of This Year

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The competition between wireless carrier of the nation will be lessened, as the acquisition of AT& over T-Mobile continues towards its final stages, hence other competitor regional carriers are becoming more and more vigilant to improve the future moves. MetroPCS, which stands in the fifth position, considering the wireless provider of the U.S. has actually overpowered Verizon, which is a much larger company, when it came to the release of the first domestic 4G LTE network. Participating the battle to win over the market, U.S. Cellular, which lies in the sixth position, has prepared its plans and is almost prepared to release its own 4G LTE service national, before the end of this year.

The actual implementation for the service will be completed “in time for the holiday season,” as the company officials told the press, that they hope to at least provide the service to quarter of U.S. Cellular customers nationwide, within their set deadline. The service will be initially released in the “selected cities,” which are predictably the “leading markets” of the U.S. Cellular. These cities include; Milwaukee, Madison and Racine, Wis.; Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport, Iowa; Portland and Bangor, Maine; and Greenville, N.C.

Nars Builds up a Very Bulky How-To Do Makeover Website, as a Promotion Campaign for Its Upcoming Book

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As a foolproof promotion campaign of the upcoming release of a book of the founder of Nars, and the creative director of the François Nars, the company has built a new microsite. The much-awaited book of Nars is based on the latest fashion of makeup and is on the whole a how-to type of book, and the website on the other hand, is overflowing with lavishing makeover tutorials. It although uniquely noticeable that the website has been designed immensely connected and has that community component. This highly sophisticated website is one of the largest digital programs of the company that it has implemented till now. It is powered with a total of twelve one-by-one stepwise tutorials which are an adaption of the book itself.

The Sharing Tool of Facebook Largely Influences the Audience of Big News Websites

Facebook has managed to greatly influence the general reading done online on the internet too, as more and more people share the most popular websites and recommend content on the social networking website. According to the study results revealed on Monday, by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, one of the most astonishing discoveries made from the study was that the internet traffic flow towards the Web's 25 largest news destinations is initiated through Facebook now.

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The study held Facebook responsible for 3% of traffic directed towards the 21 major websites. The co-author of the study, Amy Mitchell, herself stated that five of the sites even have their 6% to 8% of their audience coming from Facebook. This audience was mostly redirected via the most common feature of posting link on the wall of Facebook user, allowing their friends on social-networking site to view it, additionally the well spread "like" buttons also post a mini-activity post on the wall also letting more Facebook users to see other websites.

Apple Outnumbers Google as World's Most Valuable Brand, After Four Years Long Battle

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Apple has finally beaten the name of Google as the world's most valuable brand, after the long run of four years period for which the Internet search giant remained supreme, published by the latest study of global brands agency, Millward Brown. It announced that the makers of most famous products, like iPhone and iPad, have now increased their gigantic worth up to $153 billion, which was just the half of its actual market capitalization, as reported on the annual basis by the BrandZ, study of the world's top 100 brands.

The director of Millward Brown, Peter Walshe, was speaking with Reuters when he informed that Apple's has greatly enlarged its existence, especially through its renowned products, in the corporate environment. He mentioned that this ‘presence’ in the market is the key to be different from other rivals and competitors. He said that "Apple is breaking the rules in terms of its pricing model," He spoke on the phone. He elaborated his point of view in these words: "It's doing what luxury brands do, where the higher price the brand is, the more it seems to underpin and reinforce the desire." Summing up his conversation, he added that "Obviously, it has to be allied to great products and a great experience, and Apple has nurtured that."