Media streaming companies Hulu and Spotify are launching a new deal aimed at students: you can sign up for both services for just $4.99 per month. That’s actually the same price Spotify was already charging for student subscriptions… but now your $5 gets you access to streaming music and movies and TV shows for half the […]
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Spotify may be planning to launch its own hardware
Music streaming service Spotify offers desktop and mobile apps and support streaming to a range of wireless speakers, TV boxes, cars, in-car systems, and other hardware. But soon Spotify may start to offer its own hardware. Zatz Not Funny blogger Dave Zatz says a “trusted source” indicates that the software company will soon enter the hardware […]
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Spotify adds videos, podcasts, custom playlists for runners
Spotify is rolling out a series of new features which take the streaming music service into new territory: The company is now offering access to podcasts and video clips in addition to millions of songs. That’s not Spotify’s only new move though… the company is also adding new features aimed at runners, including custom playlists […]
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Google Now adds cards for 70 new apps including Zipcar, Spotify, Feedly
Google Now is a service designed to show cards with relevant information when you need it. At first that just meant information from Google’s apps and services such as Maps, News, and Gmail. But earlier this year Google added support for a handful of third-party apps to Google Now for Android. Now you’ll need a […]
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Lilbits (5-07-2014): Portal for Android (NVIDIA Shield)
Good news everyone! One of the most popular, critically acclaimed PC games of the last decade is coming to Android. There’s just one catch: while it’ll be available from the Google Play Store next week, at launch it’ll only officially support the NVIDIA Shield handheld game console. Still, there’s one more reason to buy NVIDIA’s […]
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Lilbits (3-25-2014): NVIDIA Erista mobile chip coming in 2015
NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 processor is just starting to hit the streets, but the chip maker is already looking ahead to next year. That’s when NVIDIA’s next-gen mobile chip will launch. It’s code-named “Erista,” it features NVIDIA’s Maxwell graphics technology, and that’s… about all we know at the moment. Here’s a roundup of tech news from […]
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Lilbits (12-20-2013): Goodbye Winamp (maybe)
After 15 years, Winamp might be shutting down soon. In the late 90s, the music player was pretty much the go-to MP3 player folks used to handle their ripped CDs and Napster downloads. But the app was eventually acquired by AOL and over the past decade it’s largely faded into obscurity. AOL announced plans to […]
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Spotify sets the music free (on mobile) with ad-supported music on demand
Music-on-demand service Spotify offers a simple promise: Listen to almost any song you want any time you want. But up until now if you’ve wanted to do that on a mobile device you’ve needed to pony up $10 per month for a Premium subscription. Only desktop users could access a free, ad-supported version of Spotify. […]