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Live in the UK? Virgin TV Anywhere is now on Kindle Fire

Jul18
by on July 18, 2014 at 2:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

Virgin TV’s mobile-focused Anywhere service launched way back in 2012, and today the media company has announced that it’s now available for Kindle Fire users too. Virgin TV Anywhere is aimed squarely a TiVO customers, letting them watch live TV and control their TiVo box remotely. Thus far, it’s been restricted to Android and iOS users, but now those on Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which uses a forked version of the Android operating system, can get involved too. ➤ Virgin TV Anywhere | Amazon App Store

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Getting beyond the use case: How to get the most out of customer interviews

Jul18
by on July 18, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Xiaochang Li is the cofounder of Somaware, an eyes-free, ears-free, hands-free wearable navigation device. This post is part of the Lessons Learned series featuring NYU entrepreneurs’ first-hand accounts of challenges faced in starting a business and the lessons learned along the way. One of the first things I noticed when my co-founder, Mike, and I began speaking to people about tactile navigation devices was how just about everyone had ideas about what (and whom) they could be useful for. It was encouraging, of course, to see that people not only understood what we were trying to do, but also found the idea compelling enough to begin imagining their own…

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This police force is using Snapchat to connect with young people

Jul18
by on July 18, 2014 at 2:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

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Local and national police forces around the world have been using social media for a while already, with varying degrees of success. But one local UK police force is taking to a rather unlikely social network to better engage with the public. While the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Instagram have long been used as public broadcasting platforms by many authorities, Snapchat has now emerged as an unlikely addition to this list. The UK’s West Midlands Police says it is the “first force in the world to join Snapchat”, and while that claim is difficult to verify, it’s certainly…

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Why Microsoft is closing Xbox Entertainment Studios

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by on July 18, 2014 at 1:44 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web

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Microsoft’s grand ambitions for original TV content are over. Yesterday, the company confirmed it would be closing Xbox Entertainment Studios in the coming months. Some projects will continue, such as the Signal to Noise documentary series and Spielberg-produced Halo television show, but otherwise Xbox Originals is dead. It’s hardly surprising. A report by Recode suggests the studio, established in September 2012, is “disorganized” and “struggling” to clinch important business deals. Dawn Chmielewski paints quite a bleak picture in her article, but of greater importance is the business rationale behind Microsoft’s original television aspirations. Unlike Netflix, the company wanted its Originals library –…

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Amazon announces Kindle Unlimited in the US, an all-you-can-eat book subscription service for $9.99 a month

Jul18
by on July 18, 2014 at 11:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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It seems the rumors were very much true. Amazon has just announced a new $9.99 monthly subscription service for reading an unlimited number of books on your Kindle. The bad news, however, is that it’s only open for business in the US for now. But nonetheless, this is a huge step for the internet giant, as it covers north of 600,000 books from its gargantuan library. It will of course be better suited to heavy-readers – those who read at least two or three books a month. That said, those who typically only get through one book a month could…

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