Hands On With Spotify: Here's Everything You Need To Know

At last! Spotify has officially landed in the U.S.

Spotify is a European startup that offers streaming music from a library of 15 million songs.

The basic service is free, but paid users get unlimited, ad-free streaming and access to mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

The mobile apps also allow you to download songs to your phone so you can listen offline.

So what does the U.S. launch mean for you? It means you can finally take advantage of the hottest and most-hyped online services around.

If you have an invite, that is.

To request one head over to Spotify's home page. In the meantime, we'll whet your appetite with our full tour of the music service.

We've been using Spotify for a few months now, and still think it's one of -- if not THE -- best streaming music service around.

Click below to see what all the fuss is about.

When you download the desktop app, you have to log in with your Spotify account

Make sure you agree to the Terms of Service before you continue

You can listen to music stored on your computer or search Spotify's library of streaming music

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Sony Has ANOTHER Security Problem On Its Hands (SNE)

Sony just can't get the hang of this security disclosure thing.

The company took Sony Online Entertainment down last night because of a problem discovered while Sony investigated last week's breach of the PlayStation Network.

In a note on the SOE Web site, the company promised to provide more information on Monday. But the day is almost done in most of the world and there's still no more word about what happened and what user data -- if any -- may have been stolen.

Sony Online Entertainment is the home for a bunch of online PC games, including Everquest, which claims more than 400,000 players.

Bloomberg cites a Nikkei news report saying that more than 12,000 credit card numbers may have been stolen in a second attack unrelated to last week's breach.

It took almost a week for Sony executives to explain and apologize for the PlayStation Network breach. The company admitted that hackers may have stolen personal information from the 77 million people using the service.

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Energy and food are the keys to the future. Those that control those two items will truly be in charge of their destiny. Chu has hit the nail on the head. I hope our leaders (on both sides) will be able to see through the politics and realize the importance of this to our future.

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