Back in March, we lament the elimination of Simplify Media's apps from the App Store. The company's apps allowable you to stream tune and picture from your home PC to your iPhone or iPod touch. It effort is well, in reality, that the company got itself snapped up by Google.

The statement came at Google's I/O Conference in San Francisco, as part of a demonstration of the newest version of the explore giant's mobile operating system, Android.

Google said it would use make simpler Media's technology to allow Android customer to stream song to their mobile phones.

Known the current aggressive strength among Google and Apple, it seems improbable that a novel version of Simplify Media will return to the App Store. However, rumors persevere that Apple is making a Web-based music streaming service, based largely on its acquisition of just such a technology in Lala.

So iPhone users may finally find that gap filled by a first-party solution. With Google's admission into the space, it surely gives Apple incentive to move in that direction, if it's not doing so already.