SourceCode: Google's Big Play

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google's big developer conference, Google I/O 2011 took place this week amid a flurry of intriguing announcements in the Android OS and Chrome OS space. Google seems to be going after Apple in the music and video streaming and delivery space as well as staking a claim in the home automation and entertainment space. News this week included the unifiying of the Android OS between Tablet and Smartphone under the Ice Cream Sandwich release later this year and the launch of cloud-enabled Chromebook notebooks.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Xperia Arc coming to Sony Style on April 27th

Sony, Sony Ericsson, and Rogers join together to launch a limited quantity of the Xperia PLAY and Xperia arc on April 27, 2011 at the Toronto Eaton Centre Sony Store located at 220 Yonge St starting at 10 am. These smartphones will be available in other retail stores across Canada on April 28, 2011.

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Review: HTC Incredible S

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

HTC has proven to be the most dynamic smartphone maker in terms of exploring form factors, pushing design boundaries and materials as well as refined skin overlays. For HTC, the smartphone experience begins with the look, feel and design of the devices and extends through the functionality.  The new Incredible S is sports a bright 4" inch super LCD screen and a  8 megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording capability. How well does it stack up?

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Amazon unveils cloud music storage service in the US

Amazon.com's been full of surprises lately. They've unveiled their own Android app store and now have gone 'to the clould' with a new music service. Launched yesterday, the Amazon cloud drive service and Amazon cloud player Android app work in tandem to offers customers 5GB of free online storage, with premium accounts expandable up to 1000GB.

Customers who purchase an MP3 album will be entitled to 20GB of storage for one year. New Amazon MP3 store purchases can be automatically added to Cloud Drive without counting toward total storage space. The idea here is that users don't need to fill their devices up with gigabytes of music and can stream music they own from online servers. Amazon, please make this International!