SoundHound, the revolutionary sound recognition company, today announced the exclusive world premiere of “Rain Over Me,” a new single by Pitbull featuring Marc Anthony. Through June 14, SoundHound app users in the United States may listen to the song for free ahead of its official launch on June 21.

With now just a bit more than a week to go before this year’s WWDC, rumors continued to spin about iOS 5, iCloud, and the possibility of a new iPhone this week. Meanwhile, Google made some interesting moves. These and other stories made news in the week that was:

SoundHound, Inc. has just released a brand new iPhone app - Hound - which allows users to easily search for a song, artist or band by speaking to their handset. The free app is currently available to download for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Some pandas, a sound hound, and getting ready for 2012 are some of the topics part of the top iPhone apps of the past week. But, which was the best one of the week?

The popular music tagging app, SoundHound, got polished up a bit this week. The minor update brought user interface tweaks, performance and stability improvements, plus an expansion on the social-networking integration.

The popular music tagging app, SoundHound, has just received a minor update. Now, fans of the paid application can view music recommendations based on the tracks they tag. Furthermore, both the free and paid versions of SoundHound have improved sharing features.

Melodis has brought the free version of their SoundHound music identifying and search app much more inline to the premium paid version by adding the enhanced music ID sharing features and one other big surprise.

If you've had your iPhone for more then a week I can pretty much guarentee that you've heard of Shazam. You know, It's the, "What's that song?" app. Whip out your phone open the app, and it finds the artist and song title. But Shazam is not the only app out there that does this, and finding a song is not the only thing these apps can do. So I'm here to tell you what else these apps have to offer. And more importantly, which is the best for the job.

MusicID is a music tagging app that also offers full lyrics searching, links to YouTube videos and much more. But does it compete with Shazam or SoundHound? Read on to find out.

A free version of SoundHound has finally hit the App Store, giving curious iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad owners the ability to try the popular music identifying app without spending a penny.

Shazam and SoundHound will be going head-to-head on the iPad. Who will be the victor? You decide!