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Google is finally launching its Google Music service at this week's Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, a year after its reveal at the last event. The new service will be similar to what Amazon launched in March, an online storage locker where your songs will be stored in the "cloud." In this case, the "cloud" refers to Google's servers. Once your music is uploaded, you can stream it to your Android-powered mobile phone or via the Web to your computer.

While both Amazon and Google's offerings have the same basic concept behind their design, there are some notable differences between the two, as detailed below.

Google has acquired PushLife, a mobile music application which allowed users synchronize tracks on their desktop computers with their mobile phones. Supported devices included those from Nokia, BlackBerry and any running Google's Android mobile operating system. The deal comes ahead of Google's expected launch of Google Music, a service Google demonstrated at its developer conference last year, and is now reportedly undergoing in-house testing.

But if Google Music is so close to launch, after having been in development for over a year, why is Google just now buying the technology of a small-time competitor in this space? What hole does PushLife fill?

On Wednesday morning, ReadWriteWeb will be heading down to Mountain View with everyone else to see the latest that Google has to offer. The company is holding an event to provide "an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos" and we thought, what's a super secretive event like this without some semi-unfounded speculation and educated guessing?

So, we dug around on the Internet a bit, took a look at some other technological palm reading and put it together for those of you who just can't wait until 10 am PST.

It's been just over a week now since Apple failed to announce the cloud-based music service many of us hoped would replace Lala. While all remains quiet on this front, CNET's Greg Sandoval is reporting this morning that Google, after years of rumors, is finally getting into the music business this fall.

CNET cites "multiple music industry sources" in its story, saying that Google "first stoked excitement among executives at some of the top four major labels during the Consumer Electronics Show in January".

Early in 2008, Google, in cooperation with Chinese online music service Top100.cn, started a free music download service in China. Today, Google took the beta label off this service and also announced deals with the four largest music labels (EMI, Sony, Warner, and Universal). According to a report from Reuters, the service currently offers about 350,000 songs, but thanks to these new deals with the record labels, this number will soon increase to about 1.1 million songs.