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Deezer acquires Muve Music from Cricket to power up its push into the US

Jan08

by Sindy Cator on January 8, 2015 at 3:37 pm

Posted In: Acquisition, Apps, Around the Web, cricket, Deezer, Muve Music, streaming

French music streaming service Deezer has acquired another streaming service, Muve Music, from US carrier Cricket. Deezer launched in the US in October 2014. Neither party has revealed the financial terms around the deal but Deezer will continue to offer Muve as a $6 per month service for Cricket subscribers who spend at least $35 per month on their cellphone plan. It’ll also offer a free ad-supported option. Deezer previously bought Stitcher Radio to expand its distribution channels in the US. Snapping up Muve gives it access to another 2 million paying subscribers. ➤ Deezer Acquires Muve Music and Partners with Cricket in…

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Jan08

by Sindy Cator on January 8, 2015 at 2:44 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers

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NASA’s retro travel posters for real exoplanets are a thing of beauty

Jan08

by Sindy Cator on January 8, 2015 at 2:25 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, design, exoplanets, Images, Insider, Jet Propulsion Lab, Kepler, Lists, NASA

NASA has been discovering lots of new and far flung exoplanets with the Kepler telescope – more than 4,000 candidate planets so far. To celebrate those discoveries, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a series of retro-style posters from the ‘Exoplanet Travel Bureau’. With Interstellar-style galactic travel not within our grasp quite yet, the designers have had to guess a little at what each planet might look like. We’re pretty sure that plants on a planet orbiting a red dwarf wouldn’t be red, for a start. The three real exoplanets in this imaginary travel brochure are HD40307g, Kepler-186f and Kepler-16b. You…

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PlayStation 4 launch in China delayed indefinitely

Jan08

by Sindy Cator on January 8, 2015 at 12:36 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Consoles, ps4

Sony is delaying the launch of its PlayStation 4 gaming console in China due to “various factors,” including prolonged negotiations with local authorities, reports Reuters. The PS4 was slated to go on sale in China on Jan 11, along with the portable PS Vita. By then, the console will already have been over a year late as compared to other markets including the US. Foreign consoles had been banned in the country for 14 years until last January. Sony had prepared extensively for the launch in China, signing up several local game developers and publishers to launch content for the PS4,…