Media & Entertainment

Earlier this year, Apple bought Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3 billion. Since then, CEO Tim Cook has gone out of his way to rave about the Beats Music subscription service, which sells all-you-can-eat music for $10 a month. So why would Apple plan to shut down Beats Music, as a TechCrunch headline reports? Continue Reading →

On January 26, 1979, “The Dukes of Hazzard” television show premiered on CBS on the East Coast. The show was poorly reviewed and, worse still, the TV ratings were just okay. As the legend goes, the president of CBS, who was in New York that night, saw the show for the first time and was Continue Reading →

Sling Media recently announced support for Chromecast through the Slingplayer apps on iPhone, iPad and Android phone, with plans to bring support to Android tablets “very soon.” Each of these apps now has an integrated ‘Cast’ icon, which also shows Roku devices on your home network, letting you sling your living room TV to another Continue Reading →

Apple is working with U2 to develop a new music format that is designed to tackle piracy by making digital downloads of albums and songs a more attractive proposition, according to TIME magazine. U2 frontman Bono told TIME that he was optimistic the new digital music format will prove so ‘irresistibly exciting’ that it will Continue Reading →

Harmony remotes have been an essential tool in any serious home theater setup for years now, but on Wednesday, Logitech turned its focus to home automation and controlling every room in your house. It just announced new, rebranded versions of its upper-tier remotes, which now all fall under the “Harmony Living Home” line. To be Continue Reading →

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but Scoopshot is turning pictures into actual money. Scoopshot, the world’s leading content syndication platform, connects media and brands with mobile and pro photographers. Aiming to provide a “crucial, visual storytelling link to communities” along with a “viable alternative to ineffective stock photography,” Scoopshot looks to engage Continue Reading →

  Clear Channel on Tuesday announced it became iHeartMedia, “reflecting the company’s success in becoming a one-of-a-kind multi-platform media company with unparalleled reach and impact.” The move doesn’t affect Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO), which will retain the Clear Channel brand. “iHeartMedia reflects our commitment to being the media company that provides the most Continue Reading →

Amazon might not have a security issue at Audible but they do have one on their main website. A security researcher has reported, and I can confirm, that Amazon has a security hole on the “manage Your Kindle” page – one which is relatively easy to fix. Thanks to this hole, a hacker can gain Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Kerry Drew and Ben Simmoneau on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch. Continue Reading →

When John Ashbery, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, first learned that the digital editions of his poetry looked nothing like the print version, he was stunned. There were no line breaks, and the stanzas had been jammed together into a block of text that looked like prose. The careful architecture of his poems had been leveled. Continue Reading →