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Apple is shutting down Lala, the online streaming music service it purchased last December, fueling speculation that it may be moving the iTunes store, or some variation of it, to the cloud. Such a move would allow users to access music from any device with a Web browser. Currently, iTunes users must download songs to a computer's hard drive before transferring them to a mobile device.

Apple Flips the Kill Switch on Lala

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an open letter on Apple's website Thursday spelling out his criticisms of Adobe Flash. In short, it's really all about the technology, he wrote. Flash is proprietary, dated, unreliable and unsecure, according to Jobs. It guzzles battery juice, can't handle touchscreens and will denigrate the user experience, the Apple cofounder opined.

Jobs on Adobe: My Way or the Highway

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Apple has stuck its nose under Google's search tent with the purchase of a leading-edge maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant application. News of the company's acquisition of Siri, which just launched its iPhone app in February, broke after blogger Robert Scoble revealed that the Federal Trade Commission had approved the deal by granting Apple an early termination notice under the Hart-Rodino Act.

Siri Buy Opens New Front in Apple's War on Google