New products from BlackBerry, Google, HP and Nokia
Mark Bridge writes:
Last year, the Google I/O developer conference gave us plenty of product announcements: Google Glass, the Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q device and the Jelly Bean version of Android. This year’s announcements were less dramatic: a streaming music service, a Google-friendlier Galaxy S4 and some game development tools. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) Apple announced its 50 billionth app download in the middle of the event.
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Google has used its annual Google I/O developer conference to reveal a new streaming music subscription service called Google Play Music All Access.
At the moment it’s just available in the USA and will cost $9.99 per month, although early adopters receive a $2 discount. Customers can store up to 20,000 of their own songs and listen to them alongside millions of online tracks.
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Mobile music discovery and interactive advertising business Shazam has appointed Rich Riley as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Former CEO Andrew Fisher, who led the company since 2005, has been appointed to the newly created position of Executive Chairman.
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The adoption of smartphones and tablets is resulting in consumers spending less time with dedicated devices... but most people still turn to standalone equipment on occasions.
Research from the Consumer Electronics Association in the USA shows that portable game consoles, satellite navigation devices and e-book readers are most likely to be discarded first.
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Tags: research, smartphone, tablet, camera, internet, browser, video, music, e-book, location
Podcast - 24th April 2013
There's a diverse collection of mobile-related news in this week's 30-minute podcast.
We start with the new Twitter music service before moving on to discuss quarterly results, patent licensing, wireless charging, advertising and mobile payments... before ending with a curious report about app-controlled underwear.
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Tags: podcast, twitter, music, microsoft, nokia, android, foxconn, patents, battery, payments, vodafone, orange, voip
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