In yet another sign that Spotify has gone mainstream the company has just announced a partership with Shazam — the ubiquitous mobile music identification service. Under the deal, Shazamers will now be greeted with a “Play in Spotify” feature for all music discovered. The feature will be fully integrated in Shazam’s free app “soon” and is available now for the premium apps on Android and iOS wherever Spotify is available, namely, the UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain and the Netherlands. Continue reading Shazam and Spotify team up on iOS and Android apps Shazam and Spotify team up on iOS and Android apps originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Note to bouncers: Proximity to other people’s drinks won’t harm a fetus. An Illinois woman says she was ordered to leave a bar after a bouncer noticed she was heavily pregnant. She had flown to town that day for a friend’s baby shower, but her night out lasted just 15…
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The president’s talents as a communicator were in desperate need in Arizona, where he spoke Wednesday at the memorial for the victims of the shooting in Tucson. (full remarks and video after the jump) Related Entries January 12, 2011 How Violent Talk Blocks Sane Gun Laws January 12, 2011 Perps in the White House
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Continue reading …Julian Assange says the “insurance files” that he’ll released if something happens to him or WikiLeaks include secret documents that could seriously damage Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp empire. “There are 504 US embassy cables on one broadcasting organization, and there are cables on Murdoch and News Corp,” the…
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Rovi sounds friendly enough, but the company used to be called Macrovision — and the infamous DRM provider just sued Amazon’s IMDb.com last week for infringement of five TV guide patents. The patents came along with Rovi’s acquisition of Gemstar, and they cover everything from interactive program guides to purchasing products on-demand to scheduling recordings from a computer — a huge range that seems to hit everything from QVC to the Xfinity TV iPad app . That probably explains why Rovi says it has deals with everyone from Apple to Yahoo — between its TV listings products, recent purchase of a sizable video library, and the current litigation with IMDb, it appears that the company is serious about leaving its DRM-centric roots behind and moving into internet content distribution. Rovi sues Amazon and IMDb for infringing TV guide patents originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Hasty ranchers shot dead three Heast Castle zebras who strayed onto their property, and neighbors are aghast. The zebras—a buck, a mare and yearling—were part of a herd that roams castle grounds, the remnants of the one-time largest private zoo in the world owned by the late publishing…
Continue reading …German bosses can order female workers to wear bras, and even dictate the length of their fingernails, a court has ruled. “Being told to wear a bra and to keep fingernails to shorter than half a centimeter does not impinge on personal rights,” ruled the Cologne court. Bosses also have…
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We didn’t manage to check out Vivitek’s booth and its bevy of low power QR-LPD-screened devices at this year’s CES, but it doesn’t look like we missed much. The e-book fanatics over at The Digital Reader dropped by, and found Bridgestone’s QR-LPD screen technology extremely disappointing. Apparently the screens are just as dim and washed out as they were when we first glimpsed them , over two years ago. In addition, the screen refresh time is painfully slow. Unless these screens turn out to be vastly better in production and incredibly cheap, we think Mirasol and Pixel Qi don’t have anything to worry about in the next-gen screen space. There’s a video of QR-LPD after the break if you’re still interested. Continue reading Bridgestone shows off QR-LPD display, the future looks dim Bridgestone shows off QR-LPD display, the future looks dim originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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