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  MAY 12, 2014

  NEWS

  Apple in Rumored $3.2 Billion Bid for Beats Electronics

  While Apple has quietly purchased dozens of companies in the past few years, it's never made a deal as big as this: The firm is rumored to have consummated a $3.2 billion deal to acquire Beats Electronics, the maker of bass-heavy headphones and a fledgling subscription music service. While many are questioning the logic of such a deal, it would give the consumer electronics maker a new opening with a younger crowd that increasingly finds Apple to be uncool....More
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  MAY 10, 2014

  ARTICLE

  Xbox Music for Windows Phone 8.1 Gets Another Update 16

  Keeping its promise to steadily iterate Xbox Music for Windows Phone 8.1 until it's really usable, Microsoft this weekend delivered another update to the app. Nothing major, again, and certainly not the much-needed performance improvements. But Xbox Music does pick up a handy music scrubber and a few other small changes....More
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  MAY 9, 2014

  COMMENTARY

  Short Takes: May 9, 2014

  An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a confirmation of a second new Surface device this month, parsing Bill Gates' recent comments about Xbox, Bing and Surface, the man behind the Lumia PureView cameras heads to Apple, "Ghosts" outsells "Titanfall" on Xbox One, a rumored Apple buyout of Beats for $3.2 billion, and the cozy Google/NSA relationship laid bare....More
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  APR 30, 2014

  ARTICLE

  Microsoft Delivers Reading List, Movie Moments Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 12

  Microsoft today delivered two key apps for Windows Phone 8.1 that nicely round out the "One Windows" vision from an apps availability perspective: Both are available for Windows 8.1 already, and both are quite desirable additions to any Windows Phone user's app collection....More
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  APR 26, 2014

  ARTICLE

  Roku Streaming Stick 11

  When it comes to living room set top boxes, there's Roku and then there's everything else. And yet, this past year has seen a sudden competitive surge, with new generation video game consoles, a suddenly resurgent Apple TV, Google's odd Chromecast, Amazon's new Fire TV, and even new wireless display technologies like Miracast. And so Roku has evolved its lineup of set top box solutions to include a new entry, the Roku Streaming Stick....More