Amazon unveils cloud music storage service in the US

Amazon.com's been full of surprises lately. They've unveiled their own Android app store and now have gone 'to the clould' with a new music service. Launched yesterday, the Amazon cloud drive service and Amazon cloud player Android app work in tandem to offers customers 5GB of free online storage, with premium accounts expandable up to 1000GB.

Customers who purchase an MP3 album will be entitled to 20GB of storage for one year. New Amazon MP3 store purchases can be automatically added to Cloud Drive without counting toward total storage space. The idea here is that users don't need to fill their devices up with gigabytes of music and can stream music they own from online servers. Amazon, please make this International!

Nexus S now on pre-order from Best Buy Canada

The Google Nexus S is certainly one of the most desirable handsets around and for many Canadians obtaining one required an eBay purchase or a trek South of the Border to an American Best Buy. Well, the handset that's expected to be with no less than five carriers in Canada (TELUS, Bell, Rogers, Mobilicity, Videotron and Wind Mobile,) is sort of available for pre-order from Best Buy Canada. There's nothing online, but if your trudge over to your favourite Best Buy and plunk down CAD $50, they'll put you on the list and holler at you when the units arrive. 

Review: Kodak Pulse W1030 wireless digital photo frame

The concept of a digital photo frame makes perfect sense. You can show hundreds of photos constantly and easily update the pictures by popping in a new memory card. The truth is, most digital frames aren't intuitive or fun to use because controls are clumsy and tedious. Here is one that defies the norm.

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Motoring: VW recalls 71,043 Jettas (2011 model) due to horn and anti-theft wiring

 

Volkswagen today announced a voluntary safety recall of 71,043 2011 model year Jettas in order to reconfigure a wiring layout associated with the anti-theft alarm system and horn. No injuries or accidents have been reported as a result of this condition.

The recall affects sixth generation Jetta sedan vehicles built between March of 2010 and March of 2011.

Affected owners will be notified via first class mail regarding the corrective measures and anticipated repair timeline.