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Pandora’s New iMessage App Lets You Text Your Favorite Music (TechCrunch)

Tucked away inside Pandora’s rebranded app, launched yesterday, the company was hiding its first iMessage app, too. In fact, it’s the first third-party party streaming music se... More

Microsoft Happy With its NFL Partnership Thus Far as Surface Tablet Becomes Mainstay on Sidelines (GeekWire)

Whether it be on the sidelines during an NFL game, on the track during a NASCAR race, or on the TV via advertisements, sports fans have likely seen Microsoft’s branding or produc... More

Western Digital Goes for Performance and Sustainability With New Solid State Drives (VentureBeat)

Western Digital has gone both blue and green. The maker of hard drives and storage devices has a new line of high-capacity solid state drives (SSDs) that emphasize either the high-... More

Twitter is Said to Be in Continued Talks With Salesforce (New York Times)

Over the last week, Twitter’s fate has appeared to be murkier than ever. The troubled social media company, which has been engaged in talks to sell itself, seemed to be running o... More

Dolby Narrate for iOS Lets You Add Voiceover to Video (CIO)

Narrate is free, and it's an easy-to-use app with the sole purpose of adding voiceover narration to video. Endless ways exist to use it for fun. For example, you can use filters th... More

AudioEye Collaborates with ADP in a Commitment to Accessible Technology (MESA)

AudioEye today announced that it is collaborating with ADP to further enrich the user experience of ADP's human capital management (HCM) solution by making it digitally accessible ... More

For Some European Broadcasters, NFL Underscores Potential Of IP (Playout)

Deluxe offers broadcasters an alternative to managing their own master control and playout complete with commercial insertion, branding and all of the other accoutrements of televi... More

To Ensure Security, Do Passwords Need to Go Away? (BizTech)

Employees at companies juggle a lot of passwords, both for the applications they need to do their jobs (e.g., corporate email and enterprise apps) and the services in their persona... More

The Mobile Wars are Over (TechCrunch)

It’s time to call it: the mobile wars are over. The mobile market was once vibrant and variegated, a virtual coral reef of odd devices aimed at specific users. There was phone wi... More

Sony: PS VR Pre-Orders Sell Out, Hits Retail Oct. 13

“Three separate waves of pre-orders” for the PlayStation VR have resulted in sellouts, but units of the virtual reality system for the PS4 console will be available for purchas... More

TiVo’s Latest Model Makes it Easier to Bolt from Cable (Seattle Times)

TiVo has always been known for making the best-looking, easy-to-use user interface for watching and recording TV. Its guide data and on-screen menus are hard to beat. And if being ... More

How the Slack App Ecosystem is Helping Chatbot Developers (VentureBeat)

It’s good to be part of the Slack ecosystem. Our bot MailClark is among 600 third-party apps that work on Slack. I like to say we get all the benefits of a flea on the back of an... More

Salesforce, U of Texas System Team Up to Build Out Learning Platform (Inside Higher Ed)

The growing learning relationship management market got a major new player this week as the University of Texas System announced it will further develop TEx, its homegrown learning... More

4K Adoption and Content Head Towards Critical Mass (Rapid TV News)

CTA research shows that 62% of those consumers surveyed plan to purchase some form of Ultra HD content viewing device in next 12 months, and 29% plan to purchase a TV in next 12 mo... More

Study: Internet-Connected Entertainment Adoption Rises (MESA)

During just the past year, adoption of internet-connected entertainment devices is up more than 10%, with nearly 75% of all American broadband homes having at least one. That’s a... More

Evolution Digital’s eBOX IP Hybrid Set-Top Box Recognized with Cable TV Industry Award (MESA)

Evolution Digital today announced that its eBOX IP Hybrid Set-Top Box received a 4.5 Diamond star rating out of a maximum 5 in Broadband Technology Report’s 2016 Diamond Technolo... More

ContentBridge Takes Vidchecker to the Cloud (MESA)

ContentBridge has added Vidchecker to their cloud-based digital supply chain solution. Vidchecker’s automated quality control of both video and audio ensures a more cost-effectiv... More

The FCC’s Vote On Open Set-Top Boxes Pits Cable, Tech, Media Industries Against One Another (Forbes)

This Thursday the FCC is scheduled to vote on a rule that would require pay-TV operators in the United States to make their services available on third-party devices and apps in ad... More

Slack Turns its Attention to the Enterprise by Integrating with Salesforce (Forbes‎)

As their customer bases overlap, Slack and Salesforce are teaming up. Slack announced on Tuesday that it’s formed a strategic partnership with Marc Benioff’s CRM leader, integr... More

Snapchat, Known for Ephemera, Proves Its Staying Power With Videos (NYT)

The Summer Olympics was something of a coming-out party for Snapchat, the mobile storytelling and messaging app. Nearly 35 million users in the United States watched highlights and... More

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