According to Apple Insider, Apple has extended their 30-second music samples to play within a browser. Happening only after a month of Apple’s purchase of online music player Lala, it creates an even more likelihood chance of Apple moving to a cloud based iTunes player.

The 30-second sample will play now within the browser, but in order to purchase the song, it still needs to be done through iTunes Music Store. Customers are now allowed to use the music based on computers activated to that account. With a cloud based service, you would be able to log in on any computer through the internet, and play your music of choice.

Lala has recently joined in a partnership with Google which will allow users to play music and samples quickly through Google. They offer one free stream of a song, with unlimited streaming costing 10 cents per song. It cost 79 cents for a download of the song which is then stored on your computer.

Fortune today named Apple CEO Steve Jobs “CEO of the Decade”, highlighting his role in the remaking of multiple industries and propelling Apple to continued success despite difficult economic conditions. As part of the feature, Fortune profiles Jobs and offers an interactive timeline of major Apple events over the past ten years. Also featured in the profile are a set of rare photos of Jobs over the years, a rundown of the “Top 10″ moments in Jobs’ career, and a series of testimonials from eight significant personalities in Jobs’ industries describing what makes him unique.

How’s this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

Superlatives have attached themselves to Jobs since he was a young man. Now that he’s 54, merely listing his achievements is sufficient explanation of why he’s Fortune’s CEO of the Decade (though the superlatives continue). In the past 10 years alone he has radically and lucratively reordered three markets — music, movies, and mobile telephones — and his impact on his original industry, computing, has only grown.

Apple announced the launch of Apple TV 3.0 software, offering a redesigned user interface and compatibility with iTunes LPs, iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes and Internet radio.

“The new software for Apple TV features a simpler and faster interface that gives you instant access to your favorite content,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “HD movies and HD TV shows from iTunes have been a huge hit with Apple TV customers, and with Apple TV 3.0 they get great new features including iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes and Internet radio.”

The redesigned main menu offers direct access to recently rented and purchased movies, as well as a wide assortment of other content. iTunes LPs and iTunes Extras are available in full-screen, enhancing the viewer experience for audio and video titles.

The addition of Genius Mixes, a feature first introduced last month with iTunes 9, allows users to listen to automatically-selected playlists generated from their iTunes libraries, while the Apple TV 3.0 software also includes support for listening to thousands of Internet radio stations. Finally, the updated software includes additional enhancements for photo viewing, enabling the Apple TV to take advantage of the Faces and Events features found in Apple’s iPhoto desktop application.

Apple has also released iTunes 9.0.2, adding support for Apple TV 3.0, a new “dark” viewing option for Grid View, and additional accessibility support. It is available from apple.com/download or your Software Update on Mac OS X.

As expected with this new release of iTunes 9.0.2, PreCentral reports that iTunes 9.0.2 once again breaks media syncing on the Palm Pre.

Here we go again. Apple has updated iTunes to version 9.0.2 and Palm Pre sync is dead again using webOS 1.2.1, despite Palm’s Hurculean efforts to spoof nearly every aspect of USB identification known to mankind. As with previous breakages, iTunes does launch when you connect a Pre with Media Mode, but it doesn’t appear as a device on the sidebar.