Google Listen – Techcitement* https://techcitement.com get excited Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:14:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Google Kills Android Podcatcher App https://techcitement.com/software/google-kills-android-podcatcher-app/ https://techcitement.com/software/google-kills-android-podcatcher-app/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:36:26 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=12800

In an announcement on the official Google blog, the company announced Friday its plan to kill Google Listen and immediately removed the long-suffering podcast app from Google Play search results. We launched Google Listen through Google Labs in August 2009, to give people a way to discover and listen to podcasts. However, with Google Play, […]]]> https://techcitement.com/software/google-kills-android-podcatcher-app/feed/ 2 Four Google Music Improvements To Kill The iPod https://techcitement.com/hardware/four-google-music-improvements-to-kill-the-ipod/ https://techcitement.com/hardware/four-google-music-improvements-to-kill-the-ipod/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:06:46 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=8605

I started using Android’s Google Music app in place of my iPod about two months ago. While I haven’t missed carrying around an extra piece of hardware in my pocket, here are a few details keeping the Google Service from eclipsing Apple’s gold standard iPod. (For our purposes here, I’m specifically talking about the Android […]]]> https://techcitement.com/hardware/four-google-music-improvements-to-kill-the-ipod/feed/ 3 Listen Up, Google Listen, You’re Better Than This https://techcitement.com/software/listen-up-google-listen-youre-better-than-this/ https://techcitement.com/software/listen-up-google-listen-youre-better-than-this/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:07:58 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=8646

Podcasts are great. Google is great. Google Listen, the company’s podcast player for Android, is not. Since its lackluster introduction in August 2009, Google has left Listen twisting in the wind with only extremely rare and inconsequential updates. Listen barely does the basic task it’s created for, and it’s far overdue for some TLC. The […]]]> https://techcitement.com/software/listen-up-google-listen-youre-better-than-this/feed/ 6