News Headlines - 31 March 2011
▽Radioplayer launches with hundreds of stations - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/31/radioplayer-launches
Radioplayer, the ambitious BBC-backed internet radio service featuring hundreds of commercial stations, launched on Thursday.
Listeners can now access live streaming and on-demand content from hundreds of different radio stations – including BBC Radio 2 and Classic FM – in one place for the first time.
▽Google 'clamps down' on world of Android partners - Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/google_clamps_down_on_android_partners/
Google has not only decided to keep the Android Honeycomb source code closed for the foreseeable future, preventing all but a few select partners from using the latest version of its mobile OS, it has also clamped down even harder on those select partners, telling them they can't make changes to the platform or form partnerships of their own without the approval of head Android man Andy Rubin, according to a report citing close to a dozen executives with knowledge of the situation.
▽Apple iPad craze might not last, say Microsoft and Dell - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8417530/Apple-iPad-craze-might-not-last-say-Microsoft-and-Dell.html
Dell backs Android for enterprise while Microsoft questions long-term future of tablet devices.
▽Xperia Play still arriving tomorrow - MCV
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/43749/Xperia-Play-still-arriving-tomorrow
Sony Ericsson blames freight issue for operator disruption but insists launch is still on
The world's first ever official PlayStation phone, the Xperia Play, is still on track to launch in the UK tomorrow, Sony Ericsson has told MCV.
▽Samsung, Visa to Offer Mobile Payments at 2012 Olympics - PCWorld
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223970/samsung_visa_to_offer_mobile_payments_at_2012_olympics.html
Samsung and Visa will roll out a mobile payments program in London in time for the Olympic Games next year, they said Thursday.
The companies will make special phones for the Olympics that users will be able to hold in front of a reader to make a payment.
