Technology

NPR has always recommended books, films, TV shows, and music to its listeners. Earbud.fm is the first time it’s making recommendations in an industry where it’s also one of the... More

Photo-sharing site Pinterest Inc. is considered a social network, akin to Facebook Inc. It would rather be more like Google. The San Francisco startup plans to introduce Monday tec... More

Uber, the ride-hailing service, agreed on Thursday to use digital maps provided by the Dutch technology company TomTom in its smartphone applications. Uber, which is increasingly u... More

IBM’s digital agency Interactive Experiences believes marketers trying to create next-generation user experiences would be wise to spend money on its services rather than agencie... More

Music and entertainment data provider Gracenote today announced the beta launch of Gracenote Rhythm Curation, a web-based application developed for music editors, playlist creators... More

Another storm appears to be brewing in Europe that will impact the ability of many U.S. businesses to freely operate there. According to a leaked draft European Commission Communic... More

LISNR’s technology is an audio-based platform for communicating data across devices. Any brand or device that wants to use it just needs to drop in a few lines of code into their... More

Rovi. Corp. Nov. 4 announced it’s combined three of its products — search, recommendations and conversation — into one personalized service music providers can offer their co... More

SoundCloud has been in the headlines more for its fraught negotiations with the major labels rather than anything else of late, but that hasn't been the only issue they've been foc... More

HBO and Netflix and ESPN all know what I watch when I use their services. Depending on how sophisticated they are, they might be able to recommend stuff for me to see, based on wha... More

Scout uses Slyce’s image recognition technology and taps several databases to find deals, including SnipSnap’s coupon database and a price-matching system SnipSnap built to scr... More

“Hundreds of channels, and still nothing to watch,” as the old adage goes. In the app world, which will soon include the appification of TV, this proliferates to millions of ap... More

With audio recognition, it is possible during broadcasts (including live broadcasts) to trigger and simultaneously sync and present on the Second-Screen device, additional program ... More

Under a trio of new partnerships, IBM Watson will power apps that will help prevent concussions, change the nature of training in golf and transform the game-day experience of Pitt... More

Let’s say you’re writing an email to a potential client. Should you make it long or short? Loop in the rest of your team or keep things one-on-one? What about an emoticon? Than... More

Rovi Corporation today announced the extension of a multi-year, multi-territory patent licence agreement with Sky. The renewal extends Sky's previous license agreement and offers t... More

YouTube partners who upload videos are probably familiar with their ContentID system, wherein users have to provide relevant video metadata and register their copyright usage right... More

Next year, Teradata will offer its eponymous database as a service on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It will be the first foray onto a public cloud for Teradata, which has come a l... More

Digimarc Corporation today announced a demonstration of Digimarc(R) Guardian Watermarking for Publishing at The Frankfurt Book Fair being held October 14-18 in Frankfurt, Germany. ... More

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Daegis Inc., a global information governance, d... More