Mobile Minutes: Google's Shazam command; Amazon's Instant Video app; Microsoft's mobile computing; HoloLens apps
'OK Google, Shazam this tune': Android users can now
identify songs using voice commands
Google users can now ask their phones and tablets to identify mystery songs on
the radio or in adverts without even touching their device. The tech giant has
partnered with music discovery app Shazam to enable voice commands across
Android handsets.
Read more on The Daily Mail
Amazon updates Instant Video iOS app with overdue features
Amazon rolled out a new version of the Instant Video app for iOS that brings it
into the world of HD and includes a couple other worthwhile updates as well. The
Amazon Instant Video for iOS app works with both the iPhone and the iPad.
Read more on Forbes
Microsoft looks to software subscriptions as mobile
computing spreads
In a roughly two-hour session with financial analysts, Mr. Nadella and other
Microsoft officials laid out the case that the company?s business is growing
less dependent on sales of software products that are bound to decline as
desktops give way to mobile computing.
Read more on Wall Street Journal
Here's what it's like to build hologram apps for
Microsoft's HoloLens
A big part of Microsoft's pitch for HoloLens, a headset with glasses designed
to project interactive 3-D holograms, is that developers will easily be able to
make any Windows program compatible. That would ensure plenty of software
available for HoloLens at launch.
Read more on Bloomberg