Email inboxes are sounding with celebration this afternoon as some users are reporting their invite for Google Music Beta has arrived. Armed with an Android 2.2 smartphone (or higher), web browser or tablet, you’ll be off to races, ready to start uploading your library to the musical cloud.
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While Google TV has still not touched down in the UK, it’s set for a serious update with an Android Honeycomb 3.1-based overhaul and Android Marketplace support. Read on for full details on the revitalised Google TV and continue to feel slightly irked that Google hasn’t given it to us yet…
UPDATE: Video after the jump!
UPDATE 2: Reader Jake suggests logging in through a proxy browser to request an invite. It’s not secure, but it does let you put your name down for access – we’ll let you know if we make it in to the beta.
Google Music, the long awaited music service for streaming tunes to your Android phone has arrived, but only for Yanks. Head on over to music.google.com right now and you’ll see a polite message telling you to jog, but if you’re in the US, you’ll be able to sign up for a beta. US Motorola Xoom owners on Verizon will also be the first to get a crack at the service, which lets you store up to 20,000 songs in the cloud, and stream them anywhere.
Oh well – at least we have Spotify eh?
Word on the street is Google has been doing a fair bit of wining and dining to win the heart of music streaming service Spotify. Today’s report comes by way of Cnet. The site is claiming Google is considering using Spotify for its soon-to-be-announced music streaming service, either in a buy out or a partnership. Are you ready for Google Music powered by Spotify?
Google music services have been rattling around the rumour mill since Google I/O last year when it teased music streaming smarts for Android.
We’ve had lots of Google Music leaks and hints and half-worked-out plans since. Now another piece of the Google music puzzle has dropped into place with Google gobbling up PushLife, a small mobile entertainment company that had been hard at work on a music app for Android and Blackberry. Intriguing…
Amazon outed Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player overnight, bringing cloud music streaming and storage to Amazon users way ahead of an iTunes Cloud service or Google Music.
There’s no word on a UK version of Amazon Cloud Drive but the US system looks intriguing. The new Amazon Cloud Player adds a “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” button for saving MP3s and gives you the option to throw music from your hard drive up into the cloud.
Sure Google Music has been on the cards for a couple of years but new reports says Google has begun internal testing and is gunning to get the streaming service out to consumers before Apple can out any iTunes cloud service.
Earlier this month, a member of the XDA Developers forum claim to have discovered Google Music lurking within Android Honeycomb and it looks like they were telling the truth.
It seems Android Honeycomb will bring Google’s iTunes-fighting Google Music service along with it. The plan was spilled by Motorola’s Sanjay Jha during his presentation covering the Motorola Xoom at MWC 2011. He says: “If you look at Google Mobile services [via Android] today, there’s a video service, there’s a music service – that is, there will be a music service.” Wonder how happy Google will be that he said that…