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Streaming limit lurking beneath the joy of Google Music
For the many fans who would swear by Google Music streaming service, it appears that they have a music streaming limit which will stop you from streaming with a message as pictured above. As to what the limit is, we are currently still in darkness. It could be anything from time, data, or number of songs. The scenario is weird in the sense that Google had never made any mention of a cap in any sense of the word regarding Google Music. Another disturbing element to the image is that the user is not informed when his service will be restored.
It is things like which make a completely cloud-enabled feature ‘too good to be true’. The see that users can be blocked from content that they own, some of which that were even purchased is enough to make anyone shift uncomfortably in their seat. The user also mentioned to Droid-Life that he is not sure if he is angry about the cap or that there is nothing he can do to remove it even if it meant paying for it.
He states that he had no problems with Google if they had to implement a cap-system, however, an option to pay to bypass the block in services should also be offered. Just as well, the user could have download music on his PC but in his opinion and very accurately, this destroys the point of being an user of a cloud-enabled system. That being said however, the reports also state that the user gave Google the benefit of the doubt by stating that it could be a glitch or maybe they were testing a payment service for the future but like him, we all are waiting to see what Google has to say about the issue.
Apple is well known to be a company that continues to push the envelope when it comes to technological advancements and firsts. This time around, Cupertino has introduced the first ever automated security update for Mac computers in order to assist them in preventing attacks from recently identified bugs, which are also the very same bugs that that security researchers have pinpointed and warned against, as those could be the gateway for hackers to actually gain remote control of machines.
Over in New Jersey, District Judge William Martini has come up with a ruling that the police are not required to actually pick up a warrant before opening a fake Instagram account. This is because the bogus account could actually be used to receive pictures shared by a suspect, and some folks wonder whether this would require a search warrant to be issued beforehand. Not so, according to Judge Martini in his ruling that stated whenever Instagram users post photos on the site, they happen to be practicing “consensual sharing.”
In other words, users who put up photos on Instagram are more or less in the know that should they “follow” or “friend” others, they will also end up sharing their pictures with them. All in all, one should always be extra careful with whatever one shares with others online, as you can never quite tell how something might end up to bit you in the rear some day down the road.
Both iOS and Android number close to a million apps each on their respective app stores, which is one of the reasons why smartphone users flock to either operating system. Of course there are other factors, such as hardware, pricing, availability and so on, but it is safe to say that app availability plays a big role as well. Well Blackberry seems to think so as well as they have revealed that the Blackberry World app store currently sits at about 120,000 apps, which while still pretty small compared to iOS and Android, is a pretty huge deal considering that the platform and its accompanying devices were only launched earlier this year! Blackberry’s CEO Thorsten Heins praised the thriving ecosystem, which we guess was boosted by Blackberry’s efforts where they held events to encourage developers to submit as many apps as they can, and even offering monetary rewards on top of earnings for every app successfully submitted to Blackberry World. We can see that Blackberry is going for quantity at the moment, and we suppose there are quality apps within those 120,000, but for now it looks like as far as apps are concerned, they may very well be edging Windows Phone out of the picture!