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Apple recently sent out invitations for a mysterious January 27 announcement at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Most people, including myself, assumed it was the Apple tablet.

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Before Apple bought Lala, back in 2008, the pricing for a song on Lala was just 10 cents for unlimited streams from the site or 89 cents if you wanted to download song. It was great.

Until Apple’s purchase of Lala. Little has passed since then, except the pricing. The pricing that what made Lala a big hit has changed. Some songs are now priced what iTunes charges to download – $1.29.

Of course, this is only for some songs. Some of the others also carry a new price tag similar to what iTunes offers – $0.99. Others are still $0.89 while all streaming song purchases are still the cheap ten cents we know and love. There is no word on their blog, or anywhere else for that matter, in regards to any price changes.

But it happened, and it means that Apple is planning to integrate it with iTunes, for the good or worse.

See that? That’s the invitation sent by Apple an hour ago to some in the press and for an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10AM. We can’t be there this time, but we’ll link to a liveblog for your reference the day before.

Most predict that it will finally be the launch of the rumored Apple tablet, but there’s a chance it might be 22″ touchscreen iMacs, or another iPhone – it’s all shrouded in mystery.

Update: Looking at this closer, the border looks kind of like a tablet, and the paint is not finger-painting, it’s spray-paint with an Apple logo at the center. It looks like it’s the back of the Apple tablet, which would be in several colors – meaning customizing it might be huge. Does that mean the end of jailbreaking?