Posts tagged “cloud services

Google combines entertainment services into Google Play

Posted on 7 March 2012

WARNING Before reading this, please be aware that Google Music and movie rentals through Google Play are still country restricted, so if you’re not in the United States (and don’t know how to get around that) this may make you sad! Just a heads up!
Just hours ago Google launched Google Play, a combined user interface for your apps, books, movies and music, bringing together the content and purchase platforms that used to be the separate Android Market, Google Music and the Google Books eBookstore services (you’ll notice that market.android.com, music.google.com and books.google.com/ebooks all now redirect to their respective areas of Google Play). They’ve also launched the Google Play Store Android app as well as Play apps to use your booksmovies and music.

Most of Play’s features are really just an amalgamation of pre-existing features, but it’s biggest selling point is that is makes all this content available in the cloud so you can use your content across all your devices without having to buy the same thing numerous times (like you do with iPhones and iPads!).


Introducing Google Play: All your entertainment, anywhere you go Jamie Rosenberg on Google’s Official Blog, 7 March 2012.

Introducing Google Play on Google Play’s YouTube channel.

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It’s getting clouded – space in the cloud environment

Posted on 24 February 2012

Just now I was writing about something else entirely on this blog when the GIZMODO extension I used with Chrome popped up with the headline, “Get 50GB Free Storage for Android.” Eyebrow raised, I impulsive clicked the link and followed the article’s instructions to get Box‘s Android app “right now” to get 50GB of cloud storage for free forever. True to their word, I got my 50GB free. While this is a pretty sweet deal—and I do encourage any fellow Android user to take them up on their 30-day offer—as the app downloaded and I registered for another cyber locker service, I began to think, ‘Do I actually need this space? What will I use it for?’ I asked myself this because I have so many cloud locker…

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Pulse News introduces sync (finally!)

Posted on 21 October 2011

Alphonso Labs has rolled out a new cloud syncing feature for their much lauded RSS reader app Pulse News (apparently they blogged about it back on 12 October but I missed it) I have to say, it’s a welcome feature! I constantly flip-flop between Pulse and Feedly as my main RSS reader app, but for many reasons Feedly alway won out in the end. A big one though, was the fact that Feedly would sync my entire Google Reader feed list. Back to the flip-flop I guess! If you’re uncertain what Pulse is, it’s a highly visual cross-platform RSS reader smart-device app. The new feature is available with their most recent app updates for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets (although does anyone know if it is a part of…

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