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quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2013

Bom combate entre Google e Apple por aplicativos de música

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57584502-93/google-beats-apple-to-it-with-streaming-music-service/


Google beats Apple to it with streaming music service

With its $9.99/month service, the tech powerhouse makes its first move into a space already occupied by the likes of Pandora, Spotify, and possibly, Apple.
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Google launched a music streaming service Wednesday, taking its first stab at the growing industry with a new service linked to Google Play for Android.
The All Access service costs $9.99 a month and you get a 30-day free trial. And it's launching Wednesday in U.S., with additional countries coming soon. If you sign up by June 30, you get it for $7.99 a month.
The move puts Google in direct competition with music streaming companies like Pandora and Spotify, and also potentially with Apple, which has been inching in that direction. Just last week, for instance, word came that Apple had reached an iRadio deal with Universal Music, though it still needs deals with the other major labels.
If Google launches an additional YouTube streaming service, the company could take advantage of the video-sharing network's position as a dominant, legal source of music, particularity for teens.

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Rumors about Google's new All Access subscription streaming service, unveiled at the Google I/O developers' conference in San Francisco, had been swirling around for the last few months.
Previously, Google Play users could stream music they bought from the app, but the new service would let people stream songs they haven't purchased as well. Users can now blend their songs with a catalog with thousands of other tracks available in All Access.
The service provides a never-ending list of related tracks that are also linked to your Google+ account. You can look ahead to what is coming next and if you don't like it, swipe the song away.
"We set out to build a music service that didn't just give us access to great music but to help guide you to it," Google engineering director Chris Yerga said.
Previous reports had Google signing deals with Warner Music and SonyMusic for streaming services on both YouTube and Google Play, according to reports, but it was expected that Google would launch its Android platform first.
Updated, 9:54 a.m. PT: with more details on All Access.

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quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2013

"Facebook phone" ...???



Facebook updates Home, says downloads reach 1M

The social network says its "Facebook phone" app -- which stumbled out of the gate -- has been installed nearly 1 million times. The company also announces the release of an update for the software.
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MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook is releasing a new version of Facebook Home, the social network's software suite for Android, the company announced at its headquarters here Thursday.
The new product will go live on Google Play at 1 p.m. Thursday as an update to the FacebookAndroid app, but users probably won't see it till about 3 p.m., Facebook said.
Facebook VP of Engineering Cory Ondrejka said the company is planning on several improvements to the product in the coming weeks, but today's update will have bug fixes. Also, for any Android devices that don't support Home, Facebook won't block users who want to transfer Home -- in a process called sideloading -- from supported devices. More than 10,000 people were using this method to get Home on unsupported devices shortly after Home launched, Facebook said.
Facebook Home's reception has been less than stellar so far. It's been installed nearly 1 million times since release, according to Facebook. The social network itself, however, has more than 1 billion users. Home has also been collecting negative reviews.
The company's partnership with HTC doesn't seem to have worked out so well either. AT&T isselling the HTC "Facebook phone" for 99 cents, a month after it launched.
Facebook Director of Product Adam Mosseri said the company has taken complaints from users into consideration as it moves forward with updates to the product.
"The clear signal is: missing launching features, and not being able to rearrange the apps," he said.
In the future, Facebook promises improvements to Chat Heads, like adding a swipe movement to bring up your buddy list, and adding folders for easy access to apps. Facebook didn't provide a time frame for when these features will appear on Home.
The issues surfaced by users may be why people aren't downloading Facebook Home in droves.
"It's not really important to us," Mosseri said about the low number of downloads. "What's important to us is if people are liking the apps a lot."
Facebook will also add more prompts for new users to provide more instruction when users launch Facebook Home for the first time.
"The idea is that because it's a novel interface, you slowly, gently lead the user into using the interface," Mosseri said.
Update, 11:55 p.m. PT: Adds more information. Clarifies how the Facebook Home update will go live.
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