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Wednesday 11 May 2011
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: via Engadget Translation by: Paul Smith
IceCream Sandwich will herald much stronger support for NFC technology and Google have been showing off some of the potential for this technology. The video aptly shows off (see what I did there?) things like automatic sharing of webpages and contacts between handsets. It also shows off a very swish little sharing feature between a smartphone and tablet where the tablet immediately picks up the video being played on the smartphone and starts playing it right from the point it was at on the smartphone. Skip forward to 14:20 for the demos. Check it out below:
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: via Engadget Translation by: Paul Smith
Yesterday's keynote address at Google's I/O event threw up the interesting news that Google was looking at a more structured update procedure for Android devices. That sort of talk obviously gets people excited, especially those who have been left high and dry in the past waiting for their handset to receive the latest Android upgrade. However, it's not all sunshine and rainbows today though as details have emerged ... well actually no because that's just the problem, details have not emerged.
According to Engadget, when pressed about the matter of setting standards for upgrades, Google were not very forthcoming with info simply saying "It's a logistics problem'. That seems to be the understatement of the year when you consider just how many different Android devices there are as well as how many different versions of Android there are. Trying to set a more coherent upgrade path for all of them must be a headache of monumental proportions. Apparently though Google are saying that even if they do lay down the law and say that certain handsets must get certain upgrades with a certain timeframe that manufacturers, etc will not be forced to compromise on their own skins and UI features.
One piece of information that did come out was a figure of 18 months. That figure is allegedly how long new hardware can expect to remain supported for according to Google. So if you buy a new Android handset you can expect it to receive updates for at least a year and a half.
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Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: via Unwired View Translation by: Paul Smith
One of the biggest announcements at the start of I/O yesterday was the announcement of Google Music, but it was an announcement that brought a few questions with it. Notably people wondered, obviously so, what sort of model the new music service would take and whether or not the various music labels would participate. Well to answer both questions in short it looks like Google Music will be more akin to a music storage service for users and the labels are once more out of the loop.
Google tried to get a deal going with the various record labels, but it didn't quite work out. Why? Can you guess? Yes folks that's right the music labels, once more, proved to be a stumbling block. Billboard paints the picture nicely:
Sources tell Billboard that Sony Music Group and Universal Music Group proved the bottlenecks in this case. Google wanted to offer a scan-and-match style locker service — where instead of uploading different copies of the same track to store in a locker for each users, the service would scan users’ libraries and match the songs they own to a centralized server, paying rightsholders for each stream.
At the risk of editorialising the guys in charge of these music labels are basically morons. It seems that at almost every step along the way of any company trying to change the music scene that little bit more for the better or trying to offer users some new way of doing things is met by a wall of greed built by short sighted imbeciles. Ok rant over.
It apparently doesn't matter much to Google whether the music labels are onboard or not since they have already announced the product and it is here that we see how Google might attempt to get around the labels' greed. Google Music will allow users to upload and store their own music in the cloud so in a sense it is no different from putting music on your iPod or your smartphone, you're just storing it. No license is needed for that.
Now granted that without the music labels Google can't make Google Music a full force to be reckoned with in the digital music space, but it can still offer a very good service. If that service proves popular then even the short sighted monkeys at the music labels might have to actually look past their next royalty cheque and see that partnering up with the Big G might be a good move.
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