Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Music Beta by Google Announcement

Check out Engadget's coverage of Google I/O 2011's opening keynote and the announcement of Music Beta by Google. If you hurry, they are handing out invitations to the (currently free) service.

Google dropped an amazing amount of stuff on us this morning, up to and including using your phone to turn off a lamp and a tablet to control a giant wooden labyrinth. Move past the flash, though, and the news with the most immediate impact to Android users is the release of the Music Beta by Google, plus the availability of movie rentals on the go. Now you can take your tunes all up into the cloud and pay too much to bring some movies along with you. That all sounds great, but we have somewhat mixed feelings about the whole thing. Check 'em out