Not really Android related but because Google Music makes most fun with Android devices, it's good to know that Google has updated its Music Manager PC software and added a new, nifty feature! As you already know, since Google Music went out of Beta, U.S. users can upload up to 20,000 songs to Google Music for free and stream them to any Android device - from smartphone to tablet. Now, Google made sure that the process is just as smooth for users to also retrieve the music from the cloud by rolling-out a new version of its PC Music Manager that allows to download all the songs from Google Music, including all songs users uploaded as well as purchased from the Google Music store.

Recently launched but only announced today, Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs has released a software called "AskWiki" which allows to ask questions to Wikipedia! AskWiki is using Android's pre-installed voice recognition feature which allows to speak questions directly into the device to the receive the exact answer from Wikipedia after. The focus of AskWiki is to find short and smart answers for direct questions like "Wann wurde Einstein geboren?" (When was Einstein born?) or "Wer ist der Leiter von BMW?" (Who's the head of BMW?). These questions are then compared and analyzed to the tables and subchapter headlines that appear in Wikipedia articles.

While Google (or Microsoft?) is not yet too keen to bring its mobile services like Google Maps and Google+ as stand-alone apps to Windows Phone, it's at least somehow taking care of its Gmail users. As announced yesterday on Google+ (which Windows Phone users can only read via Windows Phone's Internet Explorer), Google has launched a few new features on Google Sync for its "Windows Phone 7.5+" users. Multiple Calendars is a feature that lets them select which of Google Calendars are synced to Windows Phones. Furthermore, Google has also improved search to look beyond the conversations that are stored locally on Windows Phones so that conversations are found faster.

Right ahead of next month's Mobile World Congress, HTC UK chief Phil Roberson told Mobile Magazine in an interview, that HTC will focus in 2012 on a limited number of high-end devices by only launching a limited number of high-spec devices this year; focusing on a strong second quarter releases. He said that "We (HTC) have to get back to focusing on what made us great - amazing hardware and a great customer experience. We ended 2011 with far more products than we started out with. We tried to do too much. So 2012 is about giving our customers something special. We need to make sure we do not go so far down the line that we segment our products by launching lots of different SKUs."

SITA has taken the air transport industry a step closer to introducing near field communication (NFC) technology with showing its first proof-of-concept which uses the NFC chip inside smartphones. However, while it's expected that more and more smartphones will be NFC enabled in 2012, SITA's proof-of-concept demonstrates a SIM-based passengers' journey through the airport which can become much smoother as they use their NFC-enabled phone to simply "tap and check-in" or "tap and board" their flight. SITA Lab, the technology research arm of IT provider SITA, working on a joint innovation program with Orange Business Services.