It's Thursday,July 7th 2011,I'm Wilson Tang on Cnet.com and it's time to get loaded.
Yesterday Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a number of announcements related to the Facebook messaging and chatting platform.The big news is that the social network is partnering with the video converting giant Skype. Users will now be able to initiate a video chat with their friends via their profile pages or the chat window. In addition, the chat widget now displays your friends that you actually message regularly, and now Facebook chat supports group chat as well.
Amazon is stepping up its cloud music efforts to compete with Google and Apple.The company announced that for $20 a year, users will receive unlimited storage space for their MP3 and AAC music files. The offer is for a limited time though, but in comparison Apple's Itunes music match service will only allow users to back up 20,000 non-itune songs for 24.99 a year.Additionally, Amazon has released a cloud player for the Ipad.
Spotify,the popular European assuming music service has officially announced that it'll be launching in the U.S. soon. While the company had offered few details about the out-coming service, it does confirm what many have been speculating for months now. Spotify is reportedly in negotiation with the top four major music record companies to license music in the United States.
Civilization, the popular PC gaming series that focused on building a nation into a world power is now entering the world of social media gaming in the form of civilization world. The new game is more social than ever before by forcing gamers to partner with individual players they may not even know.Civ-world as it's known will be free initially on Facebook, but there are opportunities to purchase civ bucks which can be spent on virtual resources.
Most Mac users have given up on the ability to play blue-ray disc, but now a third party developer Mac-go released a new media player called Mac blue ray player that promises for blue ray support. Users will have to buy a third party blue-ray drive,the Mac blue-ray player comes in a 3 3 month trial version, but a full license will cost you $39.95.
The highly anticipated Motorola Droit 3 finally has an official release date and price. Verizon wireless customers can now purchase the phone for $199 with a two-year contract on July,14.
The Droit 3 still features the slide-out qwerty keyboard but comes with a larger 4-inch screen, the smart phone will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, features a dual-core processor, 16 gigabytes of internal memory and an 8-megapixel of camera with 1080p video capture, but doesn't support Verizon's 4G LTE service.
Those are your headlines for today, I'm Wilson Tang for Cnet.com and you've just been loaded.
