Amazon.com has updated its cloud-based music player - which is currently only for US-based customers - by giving it the ability to ‘scan and match’ music from other sources. It means the service will have similar abilities to the streaming music players offered by Apple iTunes and Google Music.
In order to offer the music matching service the company has signed agreements with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers.
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Preliminary figures from the International Data Corporation estimate that worldwide tablet shipments for the second quarter of 2012 reached 25 million units, up 33.6% from the first quarter of 2012 and up 66.2% year-on-year.
Once again, Apple was the largest tablet producer, shipping 17 million iPad devices during the quarter. In fact, all the top four tablet vendors saw year-on-year growth.
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Microsoft cooks up two new tablets while LG turns down the heat
Mark Bridge writes:
Microsoft started last week with news of an own-brand rival to the Apple iPad. The new Windows-based Microsoft Surface tablets will start to appear later this year, although full details of the specifications – including whether or not there’ll be cellular connectivity – remain unconfirmed.
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The Amazon Appstore, a marketplace for US-based customers to download Android apps, is coming to the UK this summer. Customers in Germany, France, Italy and Spain will also be able to buy and download apps from the app store, which offers a free app every day.
Developers are now being invited to submit apps for distribution.
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In this week’s mobile industry news podcast from The Fonecast we’re talking about Facebook’s recent flotation, two new virtual mobile networks, iZettle’s mobile payment service, ebooks, mobile WiFi and much more.
You can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.
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