Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Monaghan, and Woody Harrelson, stars of “True Detective.” Getty Images HBO Go has long been viewed as a trailblazer in traditional television’s move to offer premium video online, but Sunday night it got tripped up just as badly as the other guys. A week after ABC and Aereo’s separate live streams of …
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Vimeo For the first birthday of Vimeo On Demand, the video-sharing site is giving its pay-for-play platform an overhaul. Monday, user-created-video site Vimeo released its refreshed version of Vimeo On Demand, which is a feature of its $199-a-year subscription known as Vimeo Pro. Vimeo Pro lets creators upload higher-quality video and get access to tools like Vimeo On Demand, which …
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Ian C. Rogers/Beats/fistfulayen.com Streaming-music service Beats Music is opening up some of its programming to outsiders, with the goal of proliferating the new $120-a-year subscription player in the broader online universe. “If you’re willing to pay $100 a year for music, which in my experience for all the world’s music is a tremendous bargain, you should have access to music …
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley. Screenshot by CNET Former Apple CEO John Sculley reportedly is planning to launch a smartphone brand in India, according to a report by tech-news site BGR that didn’t cite sources. Smartphone usage is exploding in India, with major players like Apple and Samsung pushing their phones through distribution networks and Indian companies like Micromax luxuriating …
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Joan E. Solsman/CNET Samsung is taking on Apple’s iTunes Radio, as well as Pandora, Spotify, and a host of other companies in the competitive streaming music business, but it picked an innocuous name to do it. Milk Music, launched Friday and available now in the Google Play store, is Samsung’s latest foray into a music service, this time a streaming …
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Pandora turned 13 this year. An identity crisis would be right on time. But the operator of the Internet’s biggest radio service seems to know exactly what it wants to be when it grows up. Its dream: become an advertising-powered heavyweight, holding its own against any of the radio giants that, for now, gorge on the lion’s share of the …
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For Samsung, it’s a new year, and a new smartwatch — and that means new apps. The world’s biggest smartphone maker unveiled the Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neo at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain — both powered by its homegrown Tizen operating system, instead of Google’s Android. Apps were a key factor to Samsung’s decision to introduce …
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Apple TV added new channels to its lineup Thursday, with Major League Soccer and Disney Junior joining the ranks in an over-the-air update. With MLS, Apple TV gains another subscription sports league, in addition to MLB, NBA, and NHL. Apple TV already recruited a few other Disney Channel apps earlier this year. Apple released a software update for its Apple …
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Coming soon: an Android OS handheld that resembles the phone you had before Google even existed. Samsung is going retro with a new phone for the Galaxy family. According to a choppy language translation of the Korea-based Digital Daily, Samsung’s new phone — the “Galaxy folder” — is set for an August release in Korea as a low-end model. It …
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Clearwire is taking Glass Lewis to task as the proxy advisory firm continues to contest Sprint’s acquisition bid, just days before a shareholder vote on the deal. On Tuesday, Glass Lewis painted Clearwire a bit like a desperate damsel batting its eyelashes at white knight Sprint in its latest report on the offer. But Clearwire says the advisory firm doesn’t …
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