Boston, Dallas, Hartford, Las Vegas first to offer unlocked device service MetroPCS has launched its Bring Your Own Phone (BYOP) service, and is starting with a small initial area rollout. Rumored earlier this month, the BYOP service will allow customers to bring unlocked GSM devices they already own to the carrier, and will initially work [...]
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MetroPCS starts Bring Your Own Phone GSM-based service to four cities
Apple said to be changing iAd to support new ‘iRadio’ service
Will focus less on ads in apps, apart from ‘developer ads’ A claim from Bloomberg says that Apple is revamping its iAd division to support what will be its free but ad-supported streaming music service (dubbed “iRadio” by pundits), expected to be announced at next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference and modelled on the popular user-guided, [...]
Apple Pushing to Complete Record Deals for Streaming Music Service Launch at WWDC
The New York Times reports that Apple is still hoping to launch its much-rumored streaming music service at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next week, pressing to complete deals with record labels that would allow the company to announce the service. Apple’s service, a Pandora-like feature that would tailor streams of music to each user’s [...]
Watson technology being adopted for customer service, data mining
Several companies starting trials of the platform before end of 2013 Starting this year, IBM’s Watson intelligent agent technology will debut as a customer service assistant. Customers of Australia’s ANZ Bank, Celcom, The Royal Bank of Canada, and Nielsen can query the system for general questions related to accounts with the companies. IBM claims to [...]
Google to reportedly debut paid streaming music service at Google I/O
Internet search giant Google is said to be preparing a launch of a subscription-based music streaming service akin to existing offerings like Spotify, with the announcement possibly coming as soon as this week at the company’s Google I/O Developers Conference.Citing people familiar with Google’s plans, The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported the company has [...]
Google to Unveil Streaming Music Service at Google I/O Tomorrow
Google is set to announce a new music subscription service tomorrow at its annual Google I/O conference, reports The Verge, having finalized deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment., and Warner Music Group. The service is said to be a direct Spotify competitor, offering up songs on demand that can be streamed to a [...]
Feed Wrangler joins RSS competition with paid service
Feed Wrangler is also available as an iOS app. With two months left to go, the post-Google Reader landscape of RSS services is still sorting itself out. The newest player? Feed Wrangler, a paid subscription service from the iOS developer of Check The Weather and Audiobooks. Feed Wrangler launched Tuesday on the web and as [...]