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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Tuesday Recap: Instagram on Android, Amazon on PS3, Faster Tagging on Shazam

The heavens parted for Android users today, and Instagram was delivered unto them. The news seems to have stirred up hateful emotions for some of the Google faithful who shun fraternizing with the more than 30 million iOS users already sharing photos with the service, but you can’t please everyone, right? Meanwhile, there are plenty of other tech-related stories for this fine day, so let’s launch right into all the news for Tuesday, April 3, 2012.

Instagram Makes the Leap to Android

That loud cheering you heard earlier today was probably Android users whooping it up over the news that Instagram has finally arrived on Google’s mobile platform. While the company is touting more than 30 million users from the iOS side of things, they’re sure to have quite a few more now that the Play Store has it on their virtual shelves. Personally we’ve always preferred Path to Instagram, but most everyone we know swears by the latter, so what do we know? If you haven’t downloaded it yet, hit the link to grab it from the Google Play Store right now.

Amazon Instant Video Now Available on PS3 -- But Where’s the iPad App?

On any given weekend evening while taking a break from writing the very news recap you’re reading each weekday, we can be found sprawled out on the couch enjoying streaming movie rentals from Amazon Instant Video. The e-tailer offers a different recent feature film for only 99 cents each Monday through Thursday, and a trio of $1.99 offerings for the weekend, so it’s a great way to get caught up for cheap. While we already have a Roku box and LG Blu-ray player both capable of doing this, what’s not to like about one more home theatre device being blessed with it? Today, Amazon Instant Video is finally available on the Sony PlayStation 3, where it joins the ranks of Netflix, Hulu Plus and Vudu for your hard-earned dollars, complete with more than 17,000 free movies and TV shows available with your Amazon Prime membership and another 120,000 paid titles available. While it might help us get a few more hours of use out of our PS3, what we’d really like is an Amazon Instant Video app for the iPad -- what do they expect us to do, own a Kindle Fire, too? (Oh yeah

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