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Google opens online music store and free storage locker
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Google's Jamie Rosenberg announces the Google Music store and locker in Los Angeles.
(CNN) -- Google opened an online music store and a free Web storage locker on Wednesday for listening to tracks from computers, tablets and phones, the company announced at a news conference in Los Angeles.
The music store sells songs and albums for prices comparable to iTunes and Amazon MP3, but Google's catalog is smaller. The storefront can be found in the Android Market, an application and website where Google smartphone users can download apps.
Songs purchased from the store are automatically uploaded to Google Music, a locker that can be accessed from an app coming to recent Android phones and tablets in the next few days, or from a website. They allow users to stream songs from their various devices.
The Google locker service launched to a small group in May, and it opened to everyone in the United States on Wednesday. Google Music is free for storing as many as 20,000 songs.
More than half of all smartphones sold worldwide in the last quarter run Google's Android software, according to market research firm Gartner. Google said more than 200 million devices have been activated.
But in the music download market, Apple is king, selling more than half of all U.S. downloads through its iTunes Store, analysts say.
Apple took steps to broaden its offering with the belated launch of iTunes Match on Monday. ITunes Match is similar to Google Music in that it allows customers to store their music catalogs, up to 25,000 songs, on Apple's servers and access them from their computers, iPhones and iPads. Match costs $25 per year.
Google executives announce the Google Music store and locker at a news conference in Los Angeles.
"At Google, digital music has become fundamental to many things we care very much about," Jamie Rosenberg, Google's director of content for Android, said onstage at the news conference. "Other cloud music services think you have to pay to listen to the music you own. We don't."
ITunes Match has a technological leg up on Google because subscribers can upload their libraries much more quickly. That's thanks to Apple's deals with the music labels that allow it to provide customers with access to the high-quality versions of songs that iTunes sells. With Google Music or Amazon.com's Cloud Drive, users with a lot of music may have to wait several days for their entire catalogs to upload.
The iTunes Store has about 20 million songs, whereas Google has 8 million. Google has signed deals with three of the big four record labels. Warner Music Group, the third largest, whose musicians include Death Cab for Cutie, the Grateful Dead, Muse and T-Pain, is a holdout. Even without Warner, Google said it will add 5 million songs over the next several months.
Customers of T-Mobile USA's cellular network will be able to charge songs to their phone bills rather than setting up a Google account with a credit card.
After buying a song through Google Music, customers can share the track on the Google+ social network. Not surprisingly, Google Music will not integrate with Facebook Music, the aggregation service that launched recently from Google's social-network rival.
Google touted that, unlike other music stores, people who find songs through Google+ will be able to listen to each one in full for free one time before they buy. ITunes only provides 90-second previews. Google has also secured exclusive access to live records from popular bands including Coldplay and the Rolling Stones. Apple is still the only music-download store that has the Beatles.
Tech giants say SOPA piracy bill is 'draconian'
Tech companies say Congress' anti-piracy bills are 'draconian' and 'deeply flawed.'
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A proposed new bill intended to combat online piracy has sparked a giant backlash from big tech companies, including Google and Facebook, who say the proposals are far too strict and rife with unintended consequences.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was introduced in the House of Representatives in late October, aims to crack down on copyright and trademark issues. Its targets include "rogue" foreign sites like torrent hub The Pirate Bay.
Protecting content is a worthy goal, but here's the flip side: Opponents say SOPA -- and a similar bill called the Protect IP Act that is making its way through the Senate -- effectively promotes censorship.
If SOPA passes, copyright holders would be able to complain to law enforcement officials and get websites shut down. The law would also force intermediaries like search engines and payment processors to withhold their services from targeted websites.
That would be quite a change from the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which mandates that companies "act in good faith" to remove content that infringes on copyrights and other intellectual property laws.
Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) executive chairman Eric Schmidt called the bill "draconian" during a speech in Boston on Tuesday.
Google and other tech behemoths -- AOL (AOL), eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500), Facebook, LinkedIn (LNKD), Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) and Zynga -- also lodged a formal complaint on Tuesday in the form of a letter sent to key Senate and House lawmakers.
"We support the bills' stated goals," the letter reads. "Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding U.S. Internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities [and] mandates that would require monitoring of web sites."
The companies are asking Congress to "consider more targeted ways to combat foreign 'rogue' websites."
SOPA's critics -- some of the Internet's most heavily trafficked sites -- launched an awareness campaign on Wednesday. Hundreds of sites adopted black "STOP CENSORSHIP" logos, including BoingBoing, Reddit and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
One site tried to annoy consumers into action. Blogging site Tumblr blacked out words in its content feeds, and a message at the top of users' dashboards read: "Stop The Law That Will Censor The Internet!"
"Congress is holding hearings today and will soon pass a bill empowering corporations to censor the Internet unless you tell them no," Tumblr wrote in a post Wednesday, calling the bills "well-intentioned but deeply flawed."
Meanwhile, SOPA has drawn support from groups including the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America, which say that online piracy leads to job loss.
Proponents of the bill dismiss accusations of censorship.
The legislation would "[prevent] those who engage in criminal behavior from reaching directly into the U.S. market," Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, who introduced the bill, said in a statement Wednesday. "We cannot continue a system that allows criminals to disregard our laws."
The re-appearing Gmail app for Apple iOS
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Google says it "messed up" by releasing a Gmail app for iOS that barely functioned.
(CNN) -- Two weeks ago, Google published its much-anticipated Gmail app in the Apple app store.
It didn't work. So the company had to yank the app.
And now it's back again.
On Wednesday the Mountain View, California, company said it had "fixed the bug and notifications are now working, and the app is back in the App Store."
Google offered no new apology for the screw-up, and said the app would continue to improve:
"We're just getting started with the Gmail app for iOS and will be iterating rapidly to bring you more features, including all the ones listed above plus many more," Matthew Izatt, a product manager, wrote on Google's Gmail blog. "Based on your comments we have already improved our handling of image HTML messages - they are now sized to fit to the screen and you can pinch to zoom in. "
The company added:
"In the short time the app was public we received a lot of helpful feedback and feature requests."
On November 2, the company offered an apology to users, who complained the app didn't work.
"The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications," the company wrote on Twitter. "We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up."
The whole ordeal led at least one tech writer to lose his faith in the company's innovative potential.
"They release something, and I no longer have any faith that it's going to be any good," MG Siegler wrote on his personal Tumblr blog. "It's hard to get excited about a company like that. It's the same reason why it's hard to get excited when Microsoft and Yahoo release new things. The track record just isn't there any more. The faith is gone."
At least some initial feedback about the re-released app was positive.
"I really like it, the UI is great - don't know what all these people are complaining about," one person wrote on the app's page in iTunes Preview.
Overall, the app had a three-of-five-star rating on that page.
Technology and concerts: What not to do
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Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich say that when you're at a concert, talking on the phone is not OK.
Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiquette@cnn.com.
(CNN) -- Going to see live music has always been wrought with frustrations -- and now, along with the ogre who appears in front of you as soon as the band takes the stage, mosh pits and the dreaded "all ages" show -- you've got smartphones. Yup, it's society's technological crack pipe, without which we'd all be fiending freaks, tapping vaguely at the air in agonizing fits of withdrawal.
Mobile phones can add flavor to a show when a band has gotten hip to technology -- for instance, jam band Umphrey's McGee regularly holds a "UMBowl" live show during which fans can do things such as text requests for songs. And bands such as Data Romance have started giving away free tunes via Bluetooth. But for the most part, a phone is about as welcome during a live show as this poor woman's failed Beyonce singalong.
Here are three instances in which you should put your smartphone on hold.
The unofficial photographer
Remember when folks used to raise their lighters aloft to show appreciation for the band busting their hearts to shreds up there on the hallowed stage? Well, now said lighters have been replaced by cell phones (and, in some horrifying cases, iPads.)
We understand the urge to take a quick snap of a show to prove that you were there -- all those "likes" and comments on Instagram are like the crack in the aforementioned crack pipe -- but must you hold your iPhone above your head the entire show, blindly shooting into the ether?
Unless you're super close to the lip of the stage (in which case you're blinding the poor theremin player with your insistent flash), those shots you keep pumping out can't be that good. And, more importantly, you're likely blocking someone's view. Even worse is if you're taking video rather than photos, steadily shooting for the entire 30-minute set. (And, really, when are you ever going to watch that tinny, bottom-of-a-well video?)
If you're so down to document your concert-going experience, might we suggest downloading video-sharing app Viddy rather than using your phone's native camera? Viddy only allows you to shoot for 15 seconds, which is just about the cut-off point where posterity-making becoming perturbing.
Bonus: A lot of bands use the platform and some, such as Panic! At The Disco, have held contests where they crowdsourced concert footage for music videos. Participate in one of those, and you can knock that "un" off of "official."
The ringer
We reaaaally shouldn't have to say this at this point, but when you're at a show, talking on the phone is not OK. Yeah, most concerts are so eardrum-bursting that you'll likely wreck your voice from all that singing along (or guttural screaming upon seeing your favorite musician gyrate his hips), but somehow that dude next to you yelling, "What?! Where are you? I'm to the left of the guy in the Easter hat who smells strongly of pot. To the LEFT!" cuts through all the clutter.
Instead of using the phone portion of your mobile (who does that, anyway?), just do what the teens do and stick to texting. There's tons of group-texting apps that allow you to chat with all of your concert-going friends at the same time -- Fast Society for Android and iOS was created for this very purpose. Go ahead and download FS so that no wo/man will be left behind -- or stuck behind the dude in the Easter hat. Sidenote: Take off hats at shows, especially if you are the aforementioned ogre.
The multitasker
Look at you there, checking your e-mail, reading your tweets, playing that next sick move on Words With Friends. Bam! You just answered a message on OkCupid. Zip! You just checked in on Foursquare! Boom! Yelped you some dinner plans. Um, did you fail to notice the band pouring their guts onto that there stage? Do they not amuse you?
Yeah, it's fine to whip out your smartphone on the elevator to avoid the oh-so-awkward glances of your fellow office drones, but you paid money to see a show and shouldn't you be watching ... well ... the show?
Seriously, cell phone junkies should be ejected from concert venues with the same savagery as that guy who reached out and tried to molest the drummer's head during soundcheck.
If you're looking for a more passive social music listening experience, why not save the $30 bucks you shelled out to see your favorite K-Pop band and stay home with Myxer Social Radio, a new Web platform/iOS app that merges Turntable.fm with Pandora. It's basically a musical chatroom that allows you to passively listen to a stream of music dictated by your tastes.
Oh, and while you're at, can we have that extra concert ticket?
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