Android an' Droid News: Google Mining Music for Digital Publishing

AndyRubin.jpgThe New York Post reports that Google's Andy Rubin has been in negotiations with music digital publishing firms and rapidly acquiring rights to music.

Andy Rubin is the Vice President of Engineering at Google and oversees the development of Android.

It is believed that Google will launch a music service using technology it obtained when it bought Simplify Media.  The Post contends that because of negotiations with Harry Fox Music, for 27,000 sonsg, Google Music could open as early as this November. It May, at the Google I/O Conference, a streaming music was demoed by  Google.
It has been suggested that the music service will be integrated into
Google Search as well as Android software for easy music playing on
Android phones.

Apple's iTunes dominates the digital music market with 28 per cent of the market, followed by Amazon's 28% and Wal-Mart's 12%.

Getting music onto Android phones requires a USB cable and manually copying the files or users can buy music from Amazon. 

When
you look at Rubin and the Android robot symbol and squint you can see
their similarities. The designer of the Android symbol told our editor
who commented that "The Android is so cute," also referred to cute.

In order to help Droid by Motorola users, Motorola offers Medialink software for syncing music another option is doubleTwist for music syncing with iTunes.

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