Sony's Music Unlimited comes to Android

File photo of the headquarters of Japanese electronics giant Sony in Tokyo. Sony has released an app making its Music Unlimited online streaming available on smartphones running Google's Android system, amid growing competition from Amazon and Apple in cloud-based services.

Sony has released an app making its Music Unlimited online streaming available on smartphones running Google's Android system, amid growing competition from Amazon and Apple in cloud-based services.

Sony last week said it would restore all Qriocity online music and video distribution services everywhere except Japan afterwards shutting it and the PlayStation Network down in April afterwards hackers compromised personal data from 100 million accounts.

The launch of the new app will make the service available on smartphones running Android as then as devices just as the PlayStation3, Internet-connected Sony televisions and Blu-ray players.

Earlier this month Apple unveiled its iCloud service that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices.

Online retailer Amazon unveiled its own Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services in March, which allows users to store their digital music online and play it on a computer or an Android device.

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