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Amazon unveiled a pretty major update to their Cloud Player service that launched early last year. The update makes the Player more independent from Cloud Drive and offers a free, automatic audio quality upgrade, similar to iTunes Match. The audio upgrade program is pretty neat – music on your hard drive will be scanned and matching songs (that Amazon has the rights to) will be upgraded to a high-quality 256Kbps version and they won’t even have to be uploaded. That will work on songs already in your Cloud Drive (plus you can access the original files). From now on, when you buy a song from Amazon, it will be automatically be imported into Cloud Player too. Songs you’ve purchased previously will be imported too (again, if Amazon has the rights to do so). You can now manually edit track metadata, but you can also just use the data provided by Amazon for your imported tracks. Music used to be stored in Cloud Drive but now the Player will use separate dedicated storage. Your current track...

Google has now made the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean available for Nexus S users via an over the air upgrade. The download weighs in at about 114MB and has been restricted to being a WiFi only download. Google has also listed carriers like T-Mobile , Rogers, Vodafone and Three among others as some of carriers who are rolling out the update on their networks.  Android Jelly Bean includes additions like : Project Butter which makes Calendar, People App, Dial pad and Chrome browser fasterBetter notifications for Calender events, data usage, SMS and MMS and GmailSwipe from the camera viewfinder to quickly review photos, pinch to zoom out to view images in filmstrip modeGesture Mode for blind users to reliably navigate the UI using touch and swipe gestures with speech output Dhruv Bhutani is a tech enthusiast who tries to keep a tab on the latest and greatest in the mobile and telecom sector. He is currently using an iPhone 4S and a Nokia Lumia 800. Catch him on Twitter @DhruvBhutani , you can ...

Los Angeles, California – Dog Boogie 2.0, the iPhone app created exclusively for dog lovers, has undergone a major upgrade. The recently updated app enables pet owners to capture the perfect pic of their pooch every time. DogTown Media, the developers behind Dog Boogie, have re-built the iPhone app from the ground up with enhanced sharing functions and a specialized camera. The new and improved app now has more than a dozen high grade photo filters as well as dog friendly features to enable pet parents to easily grab their pooch’s attention with head-turning sound effects. Dog Boogie users can create customized profiles for their dogs to be shared with other pet owners. Dog lovers can follow their friends activity and easily share photos across all their favorite social networks as well as engage in conversation by liking or commenting on their favorite dog portraits. The apps built-in merchandise store enables dog owners to enjoy their most precious memories offline. Dog Boogie users...