Playboy Radio adds PodcastOne
PlayboyRadio.com and PodcastOne announced the Playboy Radio podcast lineup will now be available to listeners for free on PodcastOne.com, via the PodcastOne mobile app,...
KCRW’s “Music Mine” now on iPhone
Indie/Eclectic KCRW-FM Los Angeles and KCRW.com announced the launch of its music discovery app, Music Mine for iPhone. Already available on iPad and Spotify,...
Columbia Law Professor: Quit Google, Facebook
A best-selling author and tech expert has said that web users should boycott internet giants like Google and Facebook if it is confirmed they...
Local mobile advertising doubling this year
Local mobile advertising is on the move, so says a Borrell Associates memo to clients. Local mobile advertising is expected to double in 2013....
Why Pandora will be dead by 2018
Remember: the founder of Pandora — the guy who's supposed to believe in this company the most — is dumping more than a million...
Comcast plans millions of Xfinity WiFi hotspots
Comcast announced plans to create millions of WiFi access points for its customers through a neighborhood hotspot initiative. Comcast is beginning to give its Xfinity Internet customers an additional “xfinitywifi” signal (or SSID) in their home that is completely separate and distinct from the family’s private and secure home WiFi signal.
On-the-go consumers drive content, connectivity
The mobile consumer is an active player in the viewing ecosystem, taking advantage of mobile content on both smartphones and tablets. In the spectrum...
Rdio CEO to step down
Drew Larner is leading a search for a new CEO to expand efforts to sell combined music and video subscriptions to the streaming entertainment...
SoundHound app now on BlackBerry 10 phones
SoundHound, the music search and discovery app, is now available for BlackBerry10 smartphones and can be downloaded from the BlackBerry World storefront. The app...
Slacker launches “EQ Score”
The Slacker EQ Score is a new system that measures millions of data points on a weekly basis to show how users are engaging...
YouTube’s mobile ad sales triples
YouTube has tripled ad sales on mobile devices in the past six months, the company said, contributing as much as an estimated $350 million...
Apple signs Warner Music Group for iRadio
After months of delays over its iRadio Internet radio service launch, Apple is pushing to complete licensing
iHeartRadio adds Bott Radio Network
Christian Talk Radio specialist Bott Radio Network, currently broadcast on its 93 O&O stations, is now available on the iHeartRadio platform. Bott stations will...
Prototype BBC radio localizes programs
Radio plays can transport listeners to far away exotic settings, but the BBC’s prototype “Perceptive Radio” (via the internet) aims to give listeners a more localized experience, reports Gizmag.com. Shown to the public recently at the Thinking Digital Conference in Gateshead, UK, the Perceptive Radio uses local data and onboard sensors to adjust itself and even alter the script of a radio play in real time to reflect local conditions. It’s done via a computer algorithm that uses the IP address of the listener’s device and alters the dialogue in the script based on local info such as the date, time, listener’s location and the weather. As the play unfolds, the digital character mentions the time, local landmarks, whether or not it’s a nice day, and films playing at the local cinema.
Yahoo! finds a partial bargain in Tumblr
$1.1B may sound like a lot of money, but Yahoo!’s acquisition of Tumblr for that amount is historically low by one metric, according to the math homework turned in by SNL Kagan. But it’s not all good. The analysts compared the deal to six other similar acquisitions.