Google today announced that it acquired mobile streaming service SimplifyMedia two months ago, and will be leveraging its technology to let Android users to stream music directly from their home PCs.

Simplify Media had previously made a very popular iPhone app with the same streaming capabilities, but announced in March that it was discontinuing its iPhone app and moving the company in a "new direction." It turns out that direction was being bought by Google. During a keynote presentation today, Google vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra revealed the company's plans to build Simplify Media's technology into Android.

SimplifyMedia's server application runs on both Windows and Mac computers, and can stream music from apps like iTunes, WinAmp, and Windows Media Player. It can also stream photos from apps like iPhoto. Music and photos can then be streamed from a home computer to a remote one, or to an iPhone or iPod touch using the Simplify Media iPhone app.

According to Gundotra's comments, Google will focus on enabling music streaming from home PCs to Android-based mobile devices. This is in contrast to services like Pandora, Spotify, or the soon-to-be defunct Lala, which streams music to mobile devices from the cloud.