For Walmart, it’s better late to the streaming media party than never — especially since, to better joust with Amazon, the company has to move its subscription appeal well beyond the confines of grocery and gas. But one wonders if it will be enough to...
General Motors will let U.S. owners of vehicles that are 2018 models or newer download Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant software to control phones, navigation and streaming media. GM noted earlier in September that it would embed Alphabet’s Google technology into vehicle dashboards sold outside of...
It appears as though Spotify might be inadvertently “streaming” some data that users would prefer be kept private — although the streaming music platform attests that there is no cause for concern. TechCrunch reported yesterday (April 25) that identifiable information of hundreds of Spotify users...
Record Store Day — an annual celebration designed to bring business to independent record stores — just had its ninth anniversary, riding the wave of a resurgence in vinyl record sales. But some in the industry argue that the event doesn’t help the “little guys”...
September 25, 2019
General Motors will let U.S. owners of vehicles that are 2018 models or newer download Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant software to control phones, navigation and streaming media. GM noted earlier in September that it would embed Alphabet’s Google technology into vehicle dashboards sold outside of China beginning in 2021, Reuters reported. Santiago Chamorro, GM’s vice president for […]
April 26, 2016
It appears as though Spotify might be inadvertently “streaming” some data that users would prefer be kept private — although the streaming music platform attests that there is no cause...
March 30, 2016
Does SoundCloud want to be more like Spotify or more like Apple Music? According to a story in The New York Times, the online audio distribution platform would actually like to...
March 29, 2016
Your favorite guilty pleasure just admitted a dirty little secret of its own. Last week, internet video streaming service Netflix admitted to throttling its own videos for AT&T’s and Verizon’s...
