ANNOUNCEMENT: The Beatles arrive on iTunes, at last!

CLICK to read article on Yahoo! News: "Yep, it's happened. A treasure trove of Beatles albums popped up on iTunes early Tuesday, a day after Apple promised an 'exciting announcement' from iTunes.

Digital versions of such classic Beatles albums as 'Abbey Road,' 'A Hard Day's Night,' 'Help!,' 'Magical Mystery Tour' and 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' were selling for $13 each, with double albums like the 'White Album' going for $20.

Also available is a massive Beatles box set for $150, while individual tracks are selling for $1.30 each.

The Beatles, of course, were one of the last remaining digital music holdouts, and rumors of the Beatles arriving on iTunes (or going digital in any way whatsoever) have been circulating for years.

Apple teased the arrival of the Beatles on its website Monday with a banner that read: 'Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget.'

Speculation on what the teaser meant ran the gamut from a cloud-based version of iTunes (powered by Apple's gigantic new data center in North Carolina) to a long-rumored iTunes-based music-subscription service.

Later in the day, though, there was increasing chatter that Apple's big news could be the arrival of the Beatles catalog on iTunes, and by late afternoon, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal and other publications had confirmed that the Beatles were at last set to go digital.

Whether Tuesday's Beatles announcement actually ranks as a day we'll 'never forget,' however, is up for debate.

Many, including me, were hoping that Apple would at last announce a Web-based version of iTunes, complete with a cloud-based digital locker for all your music. For now, it looks like we'll have to keep on waiting.

So, thoughts? Is the arrival of the Beatles on iTunes truly an unforgettable event, or did Apple and the Fab Four overplay their hands?

— Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.

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E-mail secondary as Facebook revamps messaging

CLICK to read article on Yahoo! News: "Facebook unveiled a new messaging platform Monday that takes aim at one of the Internet's first applications, e-mail.

Although blogs had been speculating that Facebook would announce an e-mail service to rival Google Inc.'s Gmail and others, Facebook said e-mail was just one component of its plans.

Declaring e-mail past its prime in the age of texts and instant messages, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company doesn't believe e-mail is going to be a modern messaging system. The first Internet e-mail system arrived in the early 1970s.

'If we do a good job, some people will say this is the way that the future will work,' Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg dismissed notions that 'Project Titan,' as its service is called, is the 'Gmail killer' it's been dubbed as in the press. But he also said that just as high school students are forgoing e-mail in favor of shorter, more immediate chats, more people down the line will send IMs and chats because it's simpler, 'more fun' and more valuable to use.

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