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Today in a much more official manner than we’ve been experiencing thus far, Google Music has been announced to be coming to iOS. It’s been announced by Google’s Android head Sundar Pichai just this morning at the D11 conference where he’s also dropped the bomb: the HTC One Google Edition. So as Android gets a gift of that silver hardware with Nexus innards, iOS gains Google Music, Google Music All Access, and a rather significant competitor to iTunes.

It should be surprising to you to see Google Music being sent to iOS, readers. It wasn’t long ago that it appeared that Google Music was made for Android only – allowing Android users to hold this experience as their own while Apple did the same with iTunes. But here it is – official and coming in “about a month” according to Pichai.

At the moment it’s not clear exactly what kind of user interface will be presented in this iOS access to Google Music. While Pichai was clear that their teams were “working like crazy” to bring All Access to iOS, the Google Play store’s ability to sell music to iOS users was not exactly confirmed.

It wouldn’t be unfounded at this point, on the other hand, as Pichai was also clear about their goals to keep their services “universally accessible.” When asked when the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 apps would be coming, Pichai essentially said that they’d have to wait until they had enough users to constitute development.

“We want to reach as many people as possible. For platforms that don’t have that many users at scale, we have great HTML5 apps. If they get more users, we will make apps.” – Sundar Pichai

Sound alright to you Windows users? The comments above were also in response to BlackBerry as much as Windows Phone – when will there be enough of a user base to bring Google back to BlackBerry?

SOURCE: AllThingsD

Google Play Music headed to iOS is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Social discovery applications are becoming more and more popular amongst mobile users, and Telly’s certainly one that’s leading the way in this category. Today, in an effort to get on as many devices as possible, the video-focused service has released a new version of its app which is vastly tailored for Android slates. Not only does this mean users will now have additional real estate to work with within the app, but Telly also added a few features to take advantage of the larger screen — namely, an optimized browsing experience, an all-new carousel view and the ability to share videos via NFC. The revamped, tablet-friendly Telly is up for download now, so hit that Google Play link below if you’re eager to check it out.

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Source: Google Play

Unless you’re willing to poke around in leaked software, there’s been no way so far to access your desktop computer via that shiny new BlackBerry 10 device — until now. Splashtop 2 has just arrived on the platform to fill that hole, and a quick tryout on our Z10 confirms that it works just as well as on other devices to give you a remote wormhole to your Mac or PC. You’ll be able to seamlessly access your desktop apps and files, watch videos and even play 3D games hosted from your home machine — though we’d wouldn’t count on a great experience for the latter. You can download and use it on your home network for free, but remote usage will run you $1.99 per month or $16.99 per year — still quite a bargain for the terminally tethered.

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Source: Blackberry World

Three months after a major database hack, Evernote has finally made good on its promise to implement two-factor authentication as an additional precautionary measure. Following the footsteps of other security-conscious companies, the technique requires not just your username and password, but also a six-digit code provided either via text message or an app like Google Authenticator. Further, you can print out a list of backup codes in case you don’t have your phone handy. Premium and Business users will be the first to get this functionality — it’ll be offered to all users once the system proves to be robust enough.

Other apps in the Evernote clan, including Skitch, Penultimate and Evernote Food will need to be updated and certain third-party apps might need to be given their own dedicated passwords as well. Aside from the double-step verification, Evernote has also introduced the ability to view your account’s access history and a list of authorized applications; you can revoke any device from your account settings if necessary. All of these added layers of security are totally optional, of course, but you might want to set yourself a reminder to check them out.

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Source: Evernote

With its quad-core ARM processor, the Drobo 5N is capable of much more than just storing files, and you can now grab a Plex app to help it live up to that potential. Once installed, it’ll turn the NAS into a full blown media server to distribute up to 16TB of protected media to any of your Plex– or DLNA-supported SmartTVs, handheld devices, Mac or PC computers, set top boxes and gaming consoles. Plex said that the Drobo, while not capable of performing real-time video transcoding, will be able to demux multiple video and audio streams and transcode multi-channel audio to stereo AAC in real-time. If you already shelled out $600 for one of the speedy boxes — on top of the drives to populate it — the free cost of the app is probably a relief. You can grab it from your Drobo Dashboard.

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Source: Plex, Drobo (Plex product page)