Tag: Pandora

LG Nexus 5X and Project Fi Hands-On Experience

Day 1: Google’s Project Fi and Nexus 5X (Hands-On)

Once again, Google throws out the playbook. With Project Fi our favorite tech Gods have created a virtual network, sitting on top of T-Mobile and Sprint. How good is the new cell service? And will it make you want to switch?
This Is My Brain On Drugs

Hanging at the Fringe: Not just white punks…

From the Fringe Festival in San Francisco.
Pebble Time Firmware 3.2 Update July 2015

Pebble firmware update adds brightness, font, vibration settings

It might not seem like much, but the latest Pebble firmware update is on point ("Bigger, Brighter, Awesome-er"), and can dramatically improve overall user experience with the smartwatch. Those of us longtime Pebble fans have been clamoring for a way to tweak various settings. As of firmware version 3.2, which rolled...

Pebble announces Kickstarter for Pebble Time smartwatch with color e-paper display

The day has finally arrived. And it's called "Pebble Time." After a much-hyped and significantly marketed countdown, the smartwatch maker that could, Pebble, announced today a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new model featuring a color e-paper display. No, this is not 1992. Up until now the Palo Alto-based start-up produced smartwatches,...

Matt Nathanson on Taylor Swift/Spotify row, love as a misleading movie trailer (Video)

"She's not yelling at YouTube, because YouTube is more powerful than Taylor Swift." Matt Nathanson talks with Stark Insider about the music industry, song-writing, influence of KISS.

Pandora top music app on Google Play and iTunes

Beats Music trails when it comes to downloads, but pulls in the money. Meanwhile, where is the Google Play Music app?

Songza Effect: Google’s streaming music service just became a whole lot more interesting

Songza ($15 million) vs Beats ($3 billion). Google continues to make smaller acquisitions. With music streaming service Songza, Google buys a company known for hand curated playlists. Customers are loyal. Will they buy-in to Google's new vision?

The T-Mobile experiment

Music Freedom? T-Mobile's new service courts controversy. But it also deftly took some of the wind out of Amazon's phone event.

With new 3D Fire Phone, Amazon raises stakes against Google, Apple

Late to the game. Does Amazon's long rumored Fire smartphone have enough to woo the Android and Apple faithful?

Prime Music a decent perk for existing Amazon subscribers – no threat yet to Spotify

Amazon enters streaming music fray with Prime Music, a modest service featuring only a million tracks. But, once again for CEO Jeff Bezos it's the potential that counts most.