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Google Music Beta: first impressions

By John Walton May 24, 2011 - 7:53pm EST Comments

It's silly to complain about technological inconveniences these days, and I'm not about to. But I have to admit that, despite the amazing capability we have to carry around the stunning performances of brilliant musicians, valuable spoken words of inspiring public figures, or an author's inimitable reading of their masterpiece tome--centuries worth of valuable... Read more »

Amazon Cloud Player lets you stream music to your Android device

By Evan Selleck March 29, 2011 - 11:23am EST Comments

While Google's supposed to be bringing streaming music to Android devices some time in the future (we're still waiting), it looks like Amazon's not quite ready to give up rocking the Android boat. After just launching the Android Appstore, Amazon's still on a roll, now bringing their Cloud Player to the fore. This allows owners of an Android-based handset to gain... Read more »

Google Music is only a hack away

By administrator$$ March 7, 2011 - 2:00pm EST Comments

According to loose timelines and rumor mills, we should have already seen Google's cloud syncing answer to music storage. Talks of the service first picked up several months ago, and officially, we've still year to hear a thing. Unofficially, it's ready to go. According to XDA user WhiteWidows, when using the Honeycomb music player on a CyanogenMod 2.3.3 build, a... Read more »

Google 20 percent results in Android robot control via the cloud

By John Walton December 20, 2010 - 4:01pm EST Comments

How cool is it that Google offers employees the opportunity to spend 20% of their office time on the projects that inspire them most? It's uber-cool, that's how cool. And one of the projects Googler's have put together with their 20% is the Robot Hackathon. Through the month of October, efforts were focused on educational and hobby robot kits for the purpose of... Read more »

New Amazon Web Services SDKs available for Android

By administrator$$ December 9, 2010 - 3:01pm EST Comments

In order for Android developers to integrate Amazon's cloud services into their apps before now, it took a lot of tinkering and the creation of their own libraries for connection purposes. Starting today, Amazon will be offering a helping hand in the release of mobile software development kits that "make it easier for software developers to call an AWS web... Read more »

Funambol: cross-platform cloud-syncing

By John Walton August 31, 2009 - 4:30pm EST Comments

I've covered Funambol before at PhoneDog, but I think these videos deserve a bump here at the new site. For those who want to sync their contacts (and later, calendar, notes, and tasks) across different platforms, Funambol is the most flexible solution I've found yet. Check it out in action in the first video below. I sync my contacts between an iPod, a G1, and my... Read more »