Google Music drops beta, MP3 store …

Been dutifully uploading music to Mountain View's cloud since Google I/O? Might want hit pause for just a sec, while you tune to Google's beat here in Los Angeles, as it's just gone and launched its own music store integrated with Android Market. Best part is, the service still free, though you can now purchase millions of songs from the store to expand your collection of tunes. 90-second track previews are available, and all songs are high quality 320kbps MP3s. And for those with an aversion…

Google: 200 million Android devices…

Here at the "These Go To Eleven" event, Google announced that Android activations thus far have surpassed 200 million devices. That's up from 100 million from May, and 550,000 activations per day. That's 50,000 more than in June, and back in December that number was a mere 300,000.

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Microsoft Xbox turns X years old to…

One decade ago today, on November 15, 2001, the Xbox gaming console was born, hitting stores across North America on the same day. That Pentium III-based black box found its way into tens of millions of living rooms around the world, and wasn't discontinued until after its successor was announced in 2005. Now, halfway through its lifecycle, the Xbox 360 is still selling strong — perhaps spurred by the company's release of Kinect in 2010 — with about four years left to go before Microsoft is…

Adobe brings Touch Apps family to A…

Back in October, as you may recall, Adobe unveiled its Touch Apps family — a collection of six tools designed to make life easier and more tactile for tablet-using creative types. Today, those apps are finally available on the Android Market, for tablets running Android 3.1 or higher. The sextet includes Photoshop Touch, Collage and Proto, among other Adobe products, each of which is priced at $9.99. These applications will also play a central role in Adobe's forthcoming Creative Cloud initi…

Ice Cream Sandwich source code rele…

If you're champing at the bit waiting to get your hands on a nice cool piece of Android 4.0, your wait may soon be over. Pending a final go-ahead from the Android Open Source Project, you'll be able to sync the now available Ice Cream Sandwich source code. Due to the "large push" (presumably because of all the changes), the roll out is going to take some time to complete — project members will give the final word when things are good to go. If you try to sync prematurely, be forewarned that …

Exclusive: Lenovo to release a 10.1…

You wouldn't think a giant like Lenovo would stop at just three (or four) Android tablets now, would you? In fact, a little birdie has informed us that said Chinese company will release a new 10.1-inch tablet by the end of the year, and unsurprisingly, Ice Cream Sandwich along with NVIDIA's Tegra 3 T33 are on the menu. Other features include 2GB of speedy 1,600MHz DDR3 RAM, a standard USB host socket (covered by a not-so-elegant pop-out flap), a back-facing camera of unknown resolution, a "Sp…

Xbox.com upgrade is live with new B…

The newly refreshed Xbox.com is now live for one and all, offering its new Social area and beacons that were detailed previously. Of course, if you're averse to commitment (or just like buying your Xbox Live subscription in the form of cards only when they're on sale) the biggest new addition may be what your friends at Joystiq noticed: a newly streamlined process to disable your subscription's yearly auto-renewal. It's a small tweak, but if it means not feeling the sucker punch of a surprise…