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Apple has purchased Lala - a service offering streaming music.

Although Apple's representative confirmed that the corporation bought the Lala website, he did not disclose the details and purpose of the transaction. Unofficially, it is said that Lala is extremely valuable to Apple because of the developed model of music sales, in which the resources available in "steaming" technology are often cheaper than traditional tracks in the form of mp3 files. Currently it is unknown whether the company will introduce the streaming music into the iTunes store.

Google has launched a new service - Google Dictionary which is available in several languages.

Google has launched two publicly available DNS servers. Their IP addresses are easy to remember. The primary DNS server address is 8.8.8.8 and the secondary server is available at 8.8.4.4.

Microsoft has released the beta version of Bing Maps. The site uses Silverlight technology.

On the official blog, Google announced the availability of a new feature that will improve the results displayed in the browser. The new feature is a special tag for the rapid identification of the country of origin of pages ending in .com, .org or .info (gTLD domain).