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About two months ago, the popular music- and photo-streaming service Simplify Media suddenly shut down its services and pulled its mobile apps from Apple's App Store. Today, we finally found out why. During his keynote presentation at Google I/O, Google's vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, noted that Google has acquired Simplify Media. Google will use Simplify Media's technology to allow Android users to stream their music directly from their desktops to their phones.

Simplify Media just launched Simplify Photo, a new iPhone and iPod Touch application that allows you to browse all the photos on your computers at home while on the go. Just like with Simplify Music, the appeal of Simplify Photo (iTunes link) is that you don't have to store all of these files on your iPhone, laptop, or netbook, where storage space is often an issue. Instead, Simplify Media's desktop application just turns your Mac or PC into a media server and you access your music and photos remotely. Simplify Photo is currently on sale in the App Store for $0.99.