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Amazon surprised the music world this week with the rollout of several products that will allow consumers to store and access their digital music in the cloud. ...

Google is working to let Android users make purchases using their mobile devices at retail points of sale, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company is said to be collaborating with MasterCard, Citigroup and VeriFone on the system, which would be based on near-field communications technology, according to the Journal's anonymous sources.

Last week, at the HP Summit 2011 in San Francisco, the tech industry waited with bated breath for HP CEO Leo Apotheker's first presentation as CEO. Surely, the theory went, he would make a startling pronouncement describing a twist in the company's strategy -- say, a greater focus on developing its own integrated software stack, as opposed to its current strategy of relying on partners.

Social shopping site Groupon clearly had bigger aspirations in mind when it spurned Google's US$6 billion acquisition offer last year. The company is in discussions with Goldman Sachs about going public -- at a $25 billion valuation -- according to a Bloomberg article citing unnamed sources in the know. ...

Oracle CRM On Demand for Partner Relationship Management has integrated a social application that gives users a sense of what customers, partners and employees are saying about a particular sale or activity or client -- and in an orderly fashion. ...

Google has enhanced its Google Docs product with a next-generation commenting system it is calling "Discussions." The new feature builds on Google's already strong collaboration bona fides and brings a small level of credibility to its otherwise dubious social media creds. ...

The National Federation of the Blind has filed a civil rights violation complaint with the Department of Justice, asking it to investigate the adoption of Google Apps by New York University and Northwestern University, as well as some schools in the state of Oregon. ...

AT&T is going to start placing caps on data usage for its DSL and U-Verse customers beginning May 2. Users who exceed a 150 GB data cap will be charged US$10 for every additional 50 GB of data consumed. ...

AT&T is going to start placing caps on data usage for its DSL and U-Verse customers beginning May 2. Users who exceed a 150 GB data cap will be charged US$10 for every additional 50 GB of data consumed. ...

AT&T is going to start placing caps on data usage for its DSL and U-Verse customers beginning May 2. Users who exceed a 150 GB data cap will be charged US$10 for every additional 50 GB of data consumed. ...

It was only a matter of time before Mellmo, developer of the Roambi ES3 mobile business intelligence application, got around to integrating it with SAS BI. ...

The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday. ...

Opera Software has opened the Opera Mobile Store -- a device-agnostic app store that offers a catalog of applications for phones based on the Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and soon-to-be-defunct Windows Mobile operating systems. ...

Deutsche Telekom is reportedly in talks with Sprint Nextel to sell its T-Mobile USA unit. The terms revolve around a major stake Deutsche Telekom would take in the combined entity, according to unnamed sources quoted in Bloomberg, which broke the story. ...

Sony will be able to proceed with its prosecution of a hacker who published an encryption key allowing PlayStation 3 owners to override Sony's copy-protection software and gain control of their consoles. The hack reportedly was built using earlier jailbreaks to the system. ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first steps that could eventually rework -- perhaps significantly -- two programs that provide low-income residents with subsidies for their telephone service. How those subsidies and services might look when all is said and done is unclear. ...

Adobe recently introduced version 5.4 of its Web Experience Management application, a collection of content and campaign management tools with mobile, social media and multichannel capabilities. It also offers tighter integration with Adobe Online Marketing Suite. The suite is based on the CQ5 content management system Adobe acquired from Day last year.

SAP has introduced a new on-demand application for its CRM base. Unlike its earlier attempts at this model, this product is the first of many that are being developed strictly to be used in a Software as a Service environment. ...

Salesforce.com released its Q4 figures last week, peppered with the usual positives: growth, acquisition, more growth, and so on. ...

Avaya has made enhancements to several Avaya Healthcare Solutions products -- adding tools to automate patient outreach for chronic disease management and follow-up. ...