Tech rivals google and microsoft open Internet research lab

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Google and Microsoft are setting aside their animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience. Sun Microsystems also is joining the $7.5 million project at the University of California, Berkeley. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or RAD, lab is scheduled to open today and will dole out $1.5 million annually over five years, with each company contributing equally. Google also plans today to launch a music section, designed to provide a more direct route to the content that most music fans want to see when they inquire about a singer or band, said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of Web products.

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