From Skype to YouTube, Music Lessons Move Online These days, instead of traveling across town to attend music lessons, many people are using tools like Skype to learn from a distance, just as they can do things like attend meetings and take academic courses regardless of their physical location. The new model allows for...
Music service Pandora is pretty much a mobile company, says CEO Joe Kennedy. So it’s only logical that the next big step for Pandora will be car integration. Watch the clip below from our interview with Kennedy at IGNITION, and see how you’ll listen to music in your car in the future. Produced by...
If you look at just one month of data, you’ll see that Myspace still has users. That’s the good news for the aging social network. The bad news is that it has kept losing them through its many executive changes, redesigns and the recent acquisition by Specific Media and Justin Timberlake. Maybe that new plan to...
Apple was today forced to delay the sale of the iPhone 4S smartphone at its flagship Chinese retail store in Beijing after huge crowds braved the cold weather and swamped the area, eager to get their hands on the Cupertino-based firm’s newest smartphone. Queuers began waiting late on Thursday, led by scalpers and others...
Social networks could one day revolutionize how we get shopping recommendations, but not yet. Instead, tablets are causing the biggest shakeup in ecommerce. 80.2% of 1000 holiday shoppers said no, personal connections on Facebook or other social networks did not influence their shopping decisions. Other findings of Baynote‘s study include that 48.6% of tablet owners made...
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The SOPA and PIPA uproar continues on the Internet and users are urging the Web’s biggest names to protest the proposed acts by “going black”. By going black, or basically shutting down operations, the word can get back to Congress thus causing them to take another look at what these two acts actually propose....
Just a week ago, the blogosphere was abuzz with the news that Google had officially locked down partners for a whole new generation of devices with its operating system for connected TVs. But if Google finally is gaining the trust and support of the consumer electronics industry, there was little evidence of it at...
Realtime Report and ebayink via Flickr Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen cofounded TurnTable. See Also: Amazon Web Services Now Available Without That Messy ‘Web’ Part Airbnb Office Tour Tour Etsy’s Crafty Brooklyn Headquarters We emailed Billy Chasen, a co-founder of Turntable.fm, earlier today to see what he thought of Facebook’s new listen with friends...
As each year passes, the connected car makes more of a noise at CES. This year several car manufacturers were touting new features, including Mercedes-Benz, Ford and Audi. The term “connected car” refers to the integration of smartphone apps and content into the car. Typically this is done via the car’s dashboard, enabling you...