The steaming music service is big business.  There are a ton of companies that are playing in this space and Spotify is one of the bigger players in this game.  It looks like Google may want into this market as well - and they've got the bandwidth, servers and customer uploaded content to play around with.  Google I/O 2013 could be pretty interesting.

Google Play isn't quite a robust rival to Apple's iTunes at this point, as the New York Times notes, but YouTube's heavy usage by record labels as a promotional tool may have helped Google in their  licensing negotiations. Plus, Apple's attempts to start a Pandora-like streaming service have stalled, meaning that Google might get a bump simply by winning the race. According to the Times, the Google streaming service won't offer a free version. The subscription cost will be comparable to their competitors, at around $10 a month. 

Source: The Atlantic Wire

We had the chance to sit down with ADATA at CES 2013 and check out the latest and greatest from them. ADATA is most famous for their DDR memory, Flash drives, SSD’s and memory cards and over the years we’ve had the chance to take a look at a few of them and have always been happy with the performance and quality. ADATA has a full lineup of SSD and memory products on display. one of which is their lineup of M.2 (NGFF) SSD drives which are designed for things like Ultrabooks where a full 2.5" drive just won't fit.

ADATA M.2 (NGFF) SSD Drives

This year at CES ADATA is showing off a new product, the DashDrive Air. The DashDrive Air is a great portable device that can wirelessly transfer files to and from a SD card to your smartphone (Android or iOS). The DashDrive also has a battery inside which allows you to charge up any USB device. If thats not enough for you, the DashDrive Air can also act as a wireless hotspot and share a wireless connection with up to 8-10 devices (depends on model of DashDrive). The DashDrive Air comes in two models, the AE800 (which features an internal 500GB hard drive instead of having to use SD cards) and the AE400 (which is a bit smaller and uses an SD card for storage). The combination of a power bank, wireless hotspot, and wireless file storage makes this a very interesting product and could make it a great travel accessory.

ADATA DashDrive Air AE400
 

Check out our CES 2013 gallery for more pictures of ADATA's full lineup of products.

Google+ might still be a distant second to Facebook, but it is still growing according to a new report from GlobalWebIndex. Google+ apparently now has 359 Million active users (Facebook has over 1 Billion) but those numbers aren't bad and are still growing. In fact, Google+ is growing faster than Twitter and could eventually become the #2 social media site. Phys.org has the details on this new report and a bunch of fun Google+ facts.

When Google launched its social networking service, Google Plus, during the summer of 2011, tens of millions of people clamoured to sign up for an account.

But within months, critics had panned the new service, pointing to user pages bereft of meaningful content and exchanges. They said the new social site just wasn't, well, social. It seemed as though Facebook had cornered the market—Google was too late to the party.

It appears that Adobe is planning on moving their much-overpriced Photoshop software out of the realm of retail and into the trap of subscription-only.  According to their post, the next version of Photoshop - Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) will be a subscription only deal that will be bundled with the Creative Cloud suite for a mere $50 a month.  If you're good at math, you'll realize that is only $600 a year - and $3000 over a five year period.  This is insane.  I'm sure that the biggest reason for this is to curb piracy on this overpriced software.  Well done you money-hungry, bloodthirsty software nazi.

We’re thrilled to announce that the next version of Photoshop, the world’s most popular digital imaging software, will be available to Creative Cloud members this June! This release, called Photoshop CC, will deliver dozens of new features, including capabilities in sharpening, upsampling and reducing blur, improvements to designer tools, added capabilities in Adobe Camera Raw, and much more.

Source: Photoshop Blog