[ad_1] While Facebook has yet to confirm The Information‘s claims, just last week, the social network reached a deal with the PGA Tour to bring daily recaps and highlight videos, rather than live coverage, to Facebook Watch. It also recently canceled two of its original shows, Limetown with Jessica Biel and Sorry for Your Loss […]
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Lawsuits claim Amazon, Apple and more are streaming unlicensed music
[ad_1] The defendants include Amazon, Apple, Deezer, Google, iHeartradio, Pandora, Rhapsody, 7digital, SoundCloud and YouTube, so this is a wide-sweeping effort on the part of PMR. The company says it has been proactive in the matter, offering licensing deals to all 10 defendants and educating them about their obligations regarding copyright laws. These efforts had […]
Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products
[ad_1] Google’s Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRP) have been around since 2010, designed to reward researchers for discovering bugs and flaws that Google might have missed. The initiative has expanded steadily since then to cover its other products, including Chrome and Android, and last year the company extended its Google Play security reward arm to include […]
MIDI 2.0 overhauls the music interface for the first time in 35 years
[ad_1] And it’s about time for a new standard, while the 5-bit DIN cables used in the 1980s couldn’t handle high resolution audio, the MIDI 2.0 spec is ready for any digital connector you’d like to use, and will start by targeting USB ports. That allows for far more accurate timing, and far more resolution […]
Google’s latest stab at messaging may be an all-in-one business app
[ad_1] The app would be part of the G Suite productivity tools run by the Google Cloud team. That would be part of the appeal — companies could have just one or two apps to manage instead of several. Google has declined to comment on the apparent leak. The incentives aren’t hard to see. Many […]
Apple’s latest iPhone lineup was a hit during the holidays
[ad_1] After all, Apple published an unusually harrowing earnings report around this time last year. iPhone sales had tanked mostly thanks to weak demand in China, which prompted the company to dial down its revenue guidance down around $5 billion. (The last time Apple had to pull off that maneuver was about 15 years ago.) […]
FCC gives Google and Sony permission to dole out 3.5GHz spectrum
[ad_1] The FCC named Google, Sony, CommScope and Federated Wireless, Inc. Spectrum Access System (SAS) Administrators. They’re now authorized to make a slice of the 3.5GHz band available for commercial purposes, meaning the private sector should finally have access to the mid-range spectrum for 5G networks. “The FCC has made it a priority to free […]
Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars
[ad_1] The investigation incriminates a lot of big name companies. We don’t know for certain which are past, present or potential clients, but the list includes Expedia, Intuit, Keurig, Condé Nast, Sephora, Loreal and more. Microsoft said it doesn’t have a current relationship with the company. Yelp said Jumpshot was “engaged on a one-time basis,” […]
After Math: Risky businesses | Engadget
[ad_1] Nothing lasts forever, especially operating systems. It’s been barely a decade since Windows 7 hit our hard drives but Microsoft is well and truly done with supporting the OS any longer. Apparently nobody told the German government because they now have to pay nearly $900k in support fees because some 33,000 of its computers […]
Apple gets its WiLan patent payout reduced to $85.2 million
[ad_1] We’ve asked Apple for comment. WiLan had argued that many Apple products, including iPhones ranging from the 6 to the 7 Plus, had been using voice over LTE technology covered by two patents. It’s a rare instance of WiLan declaring victory over Apple. The Canadian “patent monetization” company (read: patent troll) has largely been […]