Amazon's long awaited DRM-less music download store just hit the web, and, for a moment there, I thought it might have become vaporware. Thankfully, that didn't turn out to be the case, giving me a chance to put the store through its paces. Here's my review of the Amazon MP3 Download Store.

Speculation is mounting that Google is planning to launch an online 3D virtual world later this year. 

Insiders believe that this online virtual world may be part of a program to develop a 3D social space set in a lifelike 3-D model of the planet Earth.