Google hat offensichtlich angefangen, Google Music intern zu testen wie CNET berichtet:
Google has begun testing Google Music internally, a sign that the much anticipated service is nearly ready to launch.
Google employees have begun a process commonly referred to in Silicon Valley as dog fooding, when employees try out a new service or product , music industry sources told CNET.
Das Feld der Onlinemusikdienste dürfte 2011 sehr interessant werden:
CNET and others have reported that Google is negotiating for the right to store users‘ existing music libraries on the company’s servers, the sources said. According to a report in Bloomberg this week, the labels are in similar discussions with Apple about cloud music, the term often used to describe computing done on third-party servers rather than on a local PC.
Anscheinend gibt es nicht wenige Stimmen innerhalb der Majorlabels, die eine iTunes-Konkurrenz von Google befürworten:
… WeiterlesenWhat’s certain is that the big music labels want Google in the digital-music fray.