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Mini music label Blue Destiny Records has sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly “facilitating and enabling” the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.

Filed on Monday with a US federal court in Northern Florida, the suit is an attempt to choke off the distribution of Blue Destiny tunes on the Germany-based file-sharing service RapidShare, also named as a defendant. It accuses RapidShare of knowingly running “a distribution center for unlawful copies of copyrighted works,” while claiming that Google and Microsoft are propping the company up.

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TECHNOLOGICAL FADS come and go as quickly as David Beckham’s haircuts it seems, and in the world of Geekdom, any company that finds itself being labelled as ‘the next big thing’ had better beware.

The problem is that tech nerds are a fickle bunch. This month’s killer App is next month’s trash can content as the unfortunate owners of Friends Reunited will certainly attest. It’s true that the outfit that once rode high on the wave of fashion for middle-aged divorcees cyber-stalking their ex-boyfriends and girlfriends is still limping along, having expanded into the family tree and dating fields. But the arrival of Myspace – which was in turn kicked into touch by the young upstart Facebook – put paid to Friends Reunited’s all pervasive dominance in a matter of months.

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ANALYSTS at IDC say Apple’s App Store is heading for a meltdown with too much stock for any sane person to navigate – assuming of course that there is such a thing as a sane Apple fanboy.

The IDC beancounters forecast that the App Store will hold soon a quarter of a million Iphone and Ipod Touch applications, tripling current levels by the end of 2010. IDC predicts the annual growth rate will be about 900 percent. However this will cause a fair few problems for Apple. Not only do you have to find an application that you want in a pile of 250,000, you also have to find time to play with the thing.

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MSI HAS TODAY announced the UK release and pricing information for its AE2020 multi-touch all-in-one PC, a device that somebody at the firm really needs to invent a snappier name for.

The unit is the first Windows 7 based MSI touchscreen PC to offer multitouch, the firm said, which means that users can act like Tom Cruise in the film Minority Report without actually being Tom Cruise. Or looking like an idiot. But we’re repeating ourselves.

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OUTFIT Mozilla has released its Thunderbird 3 email client. The software is available for download now and comes with a number of new features. Mozzarella said today that Thunderbird 3 has been in development for two years. Available as a free download, the new version includes features like tabbed email and improved search and organisation tools.

Accompanying material adds, “If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. Thunderbird 3’s tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Search results open in a new tab too. New tools like our timeline and filtering tools will help you pinpoint the email you’re looking for, whether it’s the one from yesterday, last month, or several years ago.”

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