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It’s official, Microsoft’s acquired Sunrise calendar app

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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A week after the news dropped that Microsoft was acquiring calendar app maker, Sunrise Atelier, the companies have confirmed the acquisition via a YouTube video that has since been made private. The Sunrise calendar app for mobile and desktop is a user favorite. With this acquisition Microsoft is looking beyond its own developers for ways to make its calendar apps better. Earlier reports pegged the purchase price at over $100 million, but there’s no official word on what Microsoft paid. In the year since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has been working on being more open – including open source – and hopes…

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BitTorrent takes on Netflix and Amazon with new original content partnership

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Everyone’s getting into the original content game now. BitTorrent today announced a partnership with Rapid Eye Studios to debut original content on the BitTorrent Bundle distribution platform. Rapid Eye Studios, created by producer Marco Weber, will be creating and producing the content. It will be released first on BitTorrent, but the platform only has the content exclusively for 30 to 60 days. After that period, it can be made available through any other distributor. Still, the projects receive heavy BitTorrent support, with marketing across all of BitTorrent’s brand. Creators can choose either paid or free (advertising-based) pricing models. BitTorrent says its original programming will…

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BitTorrent takes on Netflix and Amazon with new original content partnership

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

BitTorrent
Everyone’s getting into the original content game now. BitTorrent today announced a partnership with Rapid Eye Studios to debut original content on the BitTorrent Bundle distribution platform. Rapid Eye Studios, created by producer Marco Weber, will be creating and producing the content. It will be released first on BitTorrent, but the platform only has the content exclusively for 30 to 60 days. After that period, it can be made available through any other distributor. Still, the projects receive heavy BitTorrent support, with marketing across all of BitTorrent’s brand. Creators can choose either paid or free (advertising-based) pricing models. BitTorrent says its original programming will…

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89% off the Apple Watch App Builder Course

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

While smartwatches have been around for a little while now, none have been more highly anticipated than the upcoming Apple Watch, slated to launch this year. And while its design and build look promising, the interface and functionality are expected to set the benchmark for what wearables can achieve. Here’s a great opportunity to begin building apps for the Apple Watch ahead of time. Mammoth Interactive’s course will take you through the fundamentals of WatchKit, Apple’s toolkit for building apps for its first wearable. You can start watching the online tutorials right now, and learn at your own pace to…

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Samsung’s troubles prove smart TVs are the dumbest tech purchase

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, netflix, Opinion, samsung, smart tvs

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The big problem with smart TVs isn’t that they interrupt your viewing with ads or listen to your private conversations like a horrible corporate-branded take on Nineteen Eighty-Four’s telescreens. It’s that they’re unnecessary. They’re the product of companies jostling to remain relevant and desperate to shovel more apps your way. Samsung is currently struggling with dual controversies about its smart TVs – a glitch in Australia forcing Pepsi ads on unsuspecting viewers and a poorly-written privacy policy that suggested its screens were unwelcome eavesdroppers in millions of living rooms. The simple solution? It should stop making them. Of course it makes…

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