Media & Entertainment

AT&T has become the latest company to sign a deal with Netflix to ensure that the company’s streaming videos get to consumers without lagging or delay. Netflix said Tuesday that the two companies had reached an agreement on interconnection in May. “We’re now beginning to turn up the connections, a process that should be complete Continue Reading →

Amazon is finally providing some explanation for its ongoing dispute with the publisher Hachette, explaining that it’s taken issue over Hachette’s insistence on pricing ebooks above $9.99. In a note on Tuesday, Amazon explained that it’s not actually looking for a particularly large share of the revenue on ebook sales: it’s only interested in taking Continue Reading →

Spotify has updated its iOS app with an equalizer feature that offers 22 audio presets, including electronic, hip-hop, acoustic and classical among other options. The music streaming service is also letting users manually define their own equalizer settings within the app. The update is still rolling out to all iOS users on Tuesday, but once Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Juliet Huddy and Ben Simmoneau on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. Continue Reading →

GameStop has a reputation of upselling customers at the cash register. As annoying as incessantly turning down pre-orders and protection plans can be, though, it’s child’s play compared to what the brick-and-mortar videogame retail giant is expected to start pushing soon. GameStop is set to offer its own credit card to customers that ties directly Continue Reading →

Apple is reported to be buying Google-backed podcast app Swell. The iPhone and iPad manufacturer is said to be spending $30 million (around £17.6 million or AU$32 million) to buy the app, shutting it down in the process. Swell is an iOS app that plays you a continuous stream of podcasts, saving you the hassle Continue Reading →

Online dating site OkCupid is laughing in the face of Facebook’s human experimentation scandal, lauding its own such efforts on Monday in a blog post on OkTrends. The post, titled “We Experimented on Human Beings!” reminds us that “if you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on Continue Reading →

TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho, that developed big data-style book analytics services. (Apple has since confirmed the initial report of the acquisition. The Continue Reading →

Spotify just updated its Android app’s Spotify Connect feature to let the app act as a remote to control other devices playing Spotify tunes. Now you can hook up your tablet to your home speakers and control the jams with your smartphone. The Spotify change log in Google Play states the following: “Want to use Continue Reading →

They include some of the biggest literary names on the planet, among them Stephen King, Donna Tartt, Paul Auster, James Patterson and John Grisham; a Pulitzer prize winner in Jennifer Egan; and four from this year’s Man Booker longlist, Joshua Ferris, Karen Joy Fowler, Siri Hustvedt and Joseph O’Neill. Then there are first-time writers, historians, Continue Reading →