Posted by Comments Due to the open nature of Google’s Android Market, developers are able to publish some of the , however, they lingered in that grey legal area or completely violated terms of use so Google ultimately pulled them at company’s requests. Just like the old Sony, we’d love for them to come back. Luckily most can be found as direct downloads from developers or third party markets and we’ll point you there. A word of caution, be sure you get the app directly from the original developers and not some shady source as malware embedded in Android apps trotting as good apps are at an all-time high. Grooveshark streaming music service was ousted by Google but it was no sweat for them, now you can download it from their website. Music streamers ultimately won’t get to “pass go” if they’re not licensed by the music industry… why we’re still waiting on Spotify in the States. Read More

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More Android phones just aren’t very good media consumption devices yet. You’re mostly limited to buying songs from Amazon to play locally, or dragging your own MP3 files onto the device. Pandora and other services are great for radio (non-on demand music), and there’s a variety of paid streaming music services that you can choose from, with more coming soon (like MOG and Spotify). Google knows about this weakness, which is why they so strongly considered adding Spotify as a default app to Android. If you don’t want to Read More