Google Music Start Broadcasting

Competition between Google and Apple be more open after the launch of Google Music as a service of digital music sales. This new service will be a competitor, good for Apple's iTunes and similar services from Amazon.

Online music sales service by Google that opened on Wednesday (11/16/2011) or eight years after Apple released its iTunes service.

"Today we announce, you can buy millions of songs from the Android Market," said Google Product Manager Paul Joyce in a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

For a while, this new service available free in the United States. Digital songs can be enjoyed through the Android Market, Android-based phones, while applying the service for Android tablet PCs will soon be opened. Android users also have the opportunity to upload songs from your Android device.

This service was established in cooperation with Google's top three music labels, namely Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and EMI Music. Google will provide 8 million songs from all three music industry and will membanderolnya a price of 99 cents to 1.29 dollars for each song downloaded.

"Working closely with Google in the sale of our songs is a breakthrough. We hope this will be a source of new revenue for our artists," said Robert Wells as President of Global Digital Business at Universal Music.

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3D Animation Demo on Opera 12 Alpha Version

After launching Opera version 11:50 for desktop computers in July, Opera introduced the development of their desktop browser version of the Opera 12 Alpha. Introduction The first version (alpha) Opera 12 is performed in the Up North Web 2011 meeting that took place at Holmenkollen Oslo Norway, Tuesday (11/10/2011) local time.

Opera 12 alpha version, which was originally going to be downloaded on the official website of the Opera starting on Thursday (13.10.11) or Friday pm Oslo time, carries a number of improvements over previous versions. Some of them are the latest alpha version has support hardware acceleration for 3D GL Web standards, as well as access to the webcam directly from the browser using HTML5.

To prove WebGL support for hardware acceleration, a number of demos ability Opera 12 was presented during the event. Demo of them were animated 3D Formula 1, game Angry Birds and Rage video games in the browser with the IOS platform.

At the time of presentation, Chief Development Officer of Opera Christian Krogh was also showcased how the future Opera 12 can be connected directly to the camera to display and image capture, store and membagikanya (sharing).

Another thing that can be found on this alpha version is the addition of drop down menu in the address bar so that users can add a URL directly to the Speed ​​Dial on the home screen. Improvements are also added to the theme setting, where users can now easily apply the larger images to be used as a skin or background browser.

According to Krogh, the final version of Opera 12 according to a plan launched by the end of this year.

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