However, this isn’t the very first attempt from Google in Online Music commerce as Google launched its ‘Music Beta’ service in May this year with limited features such as cloud storage for personal music library(up to 20000 songs) for free and ability to listen to songs from any device, be it tablet, PC or phone, even when the user is offline.

With today’s launch of ‘Google Music’, Google will enable its users to buy songs, directly from Google Music store and that will stand ‘Google Music’ in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes, Amazon’s music services and fast rising music services such as Spotify.

Here are some of the major highlights of ‘Google Music’ service…

• An online music store to legally buy music from various artists and music labels at standard prices(such as $0.99)
• Auto-syncing of music libraries across multiple devices
• Enormous “free” music storage on the cloud
• Ability to listen to your favourite songs on any device(PC, tablet or smartphone)
• No need of occupying your local hard disk for storing music and having any fear of losing your collection due to system crashing.

But here’s one simple question in everyone’s mind right now : Isn’t it too late for Google to make a dent in Online Music Industry ?

The music industry was first disrupted almost a decade back when Apple introduced iTunes to the world and forced the whole of Music Industry to adopt an unconventional model of selling music online through iTunes Store. And since then, the monopoly of Apple in Online Music Industry has remained unchallenged.

Spotify and Amazon Music store have tried to establish themselves in online Music Industry and despite them doing not too bad, Apple iTunes has remained the hotspot for online music purchases and related eco-system.

For Google to really make a dent in online music industry, the key challenge will be to push hundreds of millions of iTunes users to jump the ship and seek a new home for their music library and future music purchases at Google Music. That won’t be easy for sure but that looks the only way for Google to establish itself in already saturated online music industry.

To realize how challenging this task will be for Google, one can analyze the case of Amazon, which is already offering the same ‘music purchasing’ and storage facility, called ‘Cloud Drive’ to music fanatics.

Amazon, although being reasonably cheap compared to iTunes or iCloud service, is hardly causing any worry to Apple as people, who’re highly accustomed to buying music from iTunes for years now and playing them on iGadgets, are least bothered about Amazon Music Store.

Still, one can’t rule out Google’s unmatchable dominance over the web and the grip that it has over millions of users through plethora of free web services. Anyways, it’s not going to take much time for analysts to declare Google Music as yet another #fail or a runaway success, after Google Music launches to the public today.

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

No words can describe what Steve Jobs did to the Technology Industry and how he transformed hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. We thought the best way to describe his journey from a ‘struggling marketer’ to an iCon would be through some memorable images of the man himself. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

The World is gonna miss you, Steve! Rest in peace.

It’s August 10 and as reported by us earlier, Samsung India launched today its much awaited tablet devices, named Galaxy Tab 750 and Galaxy Tab 730 into Indian market and planning to hit retail stores very soon.

Both Galaxy Tab 750 and 730 are just an Indian alias for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 as there’s hardly any change in tech specs between 10.1 and 8.9 incher Samsung tablets released in the west and the ones releasing in India.

By this time, Samsung is probably the only hardware manufacturer that has earned the reputation of being the most innovative and best-selling manufacturer in Android landscape, whether it be smartphones or tablets.

And while the very first Galaxy Tab(7 incher), despite being laggy and poor from software perspective (runs non-tablet Android version) was the first ever Android tablet that made some quantifiable sales standing against the biggie iPad, it is only now when Samsung has really launched its first competitive, high-potential tablet to consumers and something that beats iPad 2(the mammoth in tablet industry right now) when compared head-to-head in terms of features and hardware specs.

Given the price range that Galaxy Tab 750(~36k) and 730(~33k) fall into, it’s obvious that these tablets are certainly not going to attract Indian masses. Majority of Indian buyers will not expend on buying a tablet until the price comes down to sub 15-20k range(~price range of netbooks).

And given the recent announcement by Reliance about launching its own Android tablet(although 7 incher, carrying ordinary specs) for just about Rs.12,999, it is apparent that other manufacturers and carriers will be targeting prospective Indian market with two potential segments in perspective, one that’s ready to pay more but can’t compromise on features and capabilities and the other that’s very tight on budget and wants basic performance tablet for usual tablet uses.

As popular iPad 2 has had some decent luck with its sales in India but still, way poor than what it has done in US and European markets, it will be interesting to see how Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 and 730 perform in Indian markets.

Samsung has much wider presence and enjoys more consumer trust in India than Apple and that could play a major role in making its latest tablets sell out in big numbers in the time to come. Expect some aggressive advertising campaign from Samsung in the months to follow.

We’ve had some hands-on experience with Galaxy Tab (7 inches) and honestly, it didn’t impress us due to software issues and hardware limitations such as limited screen size, lack of front camera etc. With Android Honeycomb(3.1) and full-throttle hardware specs in place, Galaxy Tab 750 and 730 could certainly be a game changer.

We will put up a detailed product review of Galaxy Tab 750 provided we get hold of it. International reviews have been fairly positive about these tablets and many critics have positioned Galaxy Tab 10.1(or 750) as a better or at least ‘equally good’ alternative to iPad 2. It will be interesting for us to review the tablet inch by inch if Samsung decides to send us one!

Exciting news about this particular launch is that you will be able to watch the product launch via live webcast right here. We suggest you to bookmark this page to come back on coming Wednesday for catching the launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750.

Although officially not confirmed yet, Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 is most likely a branding gimmick as it’s nothing but Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the largest sized Android Honeycomb tablet from Samsung (the next largest being the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy 7″) which is currently giving iPad 2,  a run for money in US and European markets.

It’s safe to assume that Samsung Galaxy Tab 750  is going to carry the same specs that Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes loaded with.

Some of the most disruptive features of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 include:

• 10.1 inches capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch input
• Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) OS (may get updated to 3.2 later on)
• Thinner, lighter hardware than iPad 2 (big win for Samsung)
• Powerful 1GHz Dual Core Processor
• Custom built TouchWiz UI
• 3MP Back camera and 2MP front camera
• Powerful dual speakers
• long battery life

and so on. For more detailed tech specs, refer to Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 specs.

No word on Samsung Galaxy tab 750 pricing yet but it’s most likely going to fall in the range of Rs.35 to 40k.

Live webcast for the product launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 will be available starting 12PM on August 10 so tune in back here on Aug 10 for webcast and also our live-blogging for the launch!

Live blog[Aug 10, 2011]: Product launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750

12:00pm: All’s looking set. The Media launch event is yet to kick off!

12:02pm: Live webcast has already begun broadcasting. Event not started yet.

12:31pm: It seems some unexpected delay has occured at the media launch for Samsung Galaxy Tab 750.

1pm: Samsung is also launching Samsung Galaxy Tab 730 (Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9) along with Galaxy Tab 750(Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1).

1:02pm: Lara Datta is the host of the launch event and is now unveiling Galaxy Tab 750 and Galaxy Tab 730

1: 10pm: Lara is interviewing top management of Samsung India about Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 and 730

1:20pm: Product promotional video is playing now..

1:30pm: Another video featuring some of India’s popular faces using Galaxy Tab 750 was just played.

1:35pm: Some custom apps for Galaxy Tab are being talked about right now.

1:40pm: There you have it. Event is done and both the tabs have been officially launched in India. Expect the Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 to hit retail stores by end of August(probable) and expect the Galaxy Tab 730 to land in Retail stores by end of September.

1:42pm: QnA going on…

1:50pm: Event officially wrapped up.

Just a few moments ago, Vic Gundotra, Senior VP, Engineering at Google announced that iPhone app for Google+ is now officially available for iPhone users.

Here’s where iPhone users can get their native Google+ app:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?ls=1&mt=8

While Chrome users were still having some fun with cool Google Plus Chrome extensions and so do the Android users as native Android app for Google+ was made available via Android Market since day one of Google+ launch but iPhone users were put on wait for some reason.

We all know how Apple scrutinizes app approvals and when the app is Google’s own Social networking app then approval had to take some time at least. But now, things are appearing much more resolved as Google’s native iPhone app stands approved without objections from Apple.

Call it the result of Apple’s increasing distancing from Facebook(or its rumored plan of independently competing App store model) or just to keep iPhone users happy with Google’s official Plus app, Google Plus is now available on the most popular smartphone in the world.

The two sites that are going to be join our site network are as follows:

1. CostPriceIndia.com – Gadget Reviews and Pricing Info site (especially for Indian customers)
2. AppSoGood.com - Mobile and Web Apps Directory

Our team had been hard at work during last one month for launching these two websites and we’re glad that we’ve been able to extend our reach and diversify our content with the inclusion of these two websites to our current portfolio.

Here’s a little brief-up about both the websites…

CostPriceIndia.com

CostPriceIndia.com is a consumer electronics centric website that reviews consumer products and provides latest information about electronics gadgets, their features, specification and pricing info.

AppSoGood.com

AppSoGood.com is One-Stop-Destination for every kind of application, simply known as ‘App’ that one could possibly think of. From Cloud apps to Mobile apps such as iPhone and Android apps, our website is all about reviewing and listing cool applications across the web and mobile phones.

We hope that our diversified coverage through variety of blogs that we run, will constantly feed your daily appetite for latest information in several tech areas.

And we aren’t done yet. In coming days, we will be integrating all our network sites into one standard design framework, which will help our readers cross-navigate to other network sites of our group and keep themselves updated with latest tech stuff buzzing around.

Thanks…

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Admin Team, AQR8 Media

In joint efforts by the tech companies, Egyptians, or any other person for that matter, will just be required to leave a voicemail to any of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt through a Twitter account Speak2tweet , which will be accessible to rest of the world.

It’s not been very long since the Speak2tweet account got created but the response has been tremendous so far. The whole timeline is populated with voice messages from concerned people from Egypt and other countries.

Three cheers for Google and Twitter for this act !

The first and most striking announcement from eHow is that start February, the website will kill its own registration option and Facebook login will become the whole and sole way of registering and logging into the website.

This will result in complete removal of existing eHow user profiles so all eHow profiles are about to vanish in less than a week from now. eHow will completely embrace Facebook starting February and your rich Facebook profile will replace eHow profile for future use.

Making Facebook as sole logging option is something many large web properties are going to do in future. eHow is doing so to ease off registration fatigue and hence increase logins. Facebook will also bring loads of new users to the website and induce plenty of social interactivity within a How-to content website, which appears dead from a social interaction viewpoint.

Second shocker: eHow will also delete all existing forums on eHow.com. We couldn’t figure out a reason why eHow is doing so but chances are that their forums might be acting as a breeding place for undesired criticism against eHow and IPO aspirant Demand Media(which owns eHow) will hate to have such negative sentiments emerging from its own site.

Overall, it seems like a well thought strategy and Demand Media may replicate the same on other network sites such as Livestrong and Answerbag, if their plans work out really well with eHow.