Thanks to a winning combination of solid performance, lots of content, and affordable prices, Roku streaming media players have become a favorite choice of many staffers at Consumer Reports—including me. That's why we were especially ...
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Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook. This week the company launched Thread for Android, a mobile app designed to display recent activity on Twitter and ...
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Looking to turn a plain-Jane television into an Internet TV? The new Roku 3 flagship streamer ($100) has an updated user interface that should make finding movies and TV shows easier, plus a new motion-sensing remote control with a built-in ...
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Sonos, Inc., the leading manufacturer of wireless audio systems, today introduced SONOS PLAYBAR , the soundbar for music lovers. PLAYBAR brings immersive HiFi sound to the TV and, being a full Wireless HiFi System, streams all the music on ...
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Western Digital, one of the few companies to offer a streaming-media player with a built-in hard drive (the WD TV Live Hub), is taking a different approach with its new entry-level model, the WD TV Play. Given its hockey-puck design, $70 ...
For anyone who says that heavy metal is dead, all you have to do is load up Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service, and you'll see that couldn't be further from the truth. With over 20 million users around the world, Spotify ...
There’s a new way to enjoy music on Roku®. Spotify and Roku, Inc. today announced that the two companies have partnered to bring the digital music service to the Roku streaming platform. Available starting today with a Premium ...
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FAVI Entertainment, creators of innovative audiovisual products, is now shipping the much anticipated SmartStick HDTV enhancer. This small device which is inserted to the HDMI port allows you to access your favorite movies, music, apps and ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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We're all very familiar with the concept of All You Can Eat,from the artery-clogging Vegas buffet to the less-literal digital equivalents such as Netflix for TV shows/movies,the various digital music subscription services,and even ...
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O2 is the latest UK internet service provider(ISP)to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in line with a High Court order issued at the beginning of May. The move means customers of Be Broadband,a subsidiary of O2,will also be ...
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Record group EMI is honing its marketing efforts by joining its data sources through Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It has reportedly gained insights into how individual artists’ albums, tracks, ringtones and merchandise sell in different ...
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The NME Awards event takes place on Wednesday 27 February 2013 at East London venue, Troxy, honouring some of the biggest and best artists today and celebrating the best in new music. A new venue for 2013's NME Awards, Troxy has a rich ...
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Apple is considering licensing a custom radio streaming service similar to Pandora, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The company recently started negotiations with record labels for such a service, which would still take ...
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US-based Campbell's Soup is repackaging its product in an effort to appeal to the millennial generation. Campbell's Go soup line will henceforth come in a microwaveable flexible package printed with graphics. The design of the packaging ...