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Apple’s Deal With Sony Music Alludes to Release of “iRadio” Streaming Music Service

Apple has been hard at work striking deals with record companies over the last week, with Sony Music Entertainment being the latest to jump on board yesterday afternoon. The record company deals allude to the release of Apple’s rumored iRadio service, which will be a streaming music service similar to that of Pandora and Google Play Music All Access. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple could be announcing the iRadio service at its WWDC conference on June 10th. Apple has already signed agreements with Universal Music and Warner Music Group, Read more

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Kaspersky Lab teams up with Qualcomm to preload its anti-virus on Snapdragon-powered Android devices

Kaspersky Lab has teamed-up with Qualcomm to pre-install its anti-virus software on Snapdragon-powered Android devices. Under the deal, vendors using Qualcomm’s chips will get special terms to offer Kaspersky’s software preloaded on their devices. In that sense, we expect to see both Kaspersky Mobile Security and Kaspersky Tablet Security solutions installed on many of the future smartphones and tablets. Qualcomm Snapdragon processors power-up more than 770 commercially available or announced products, with another 550 product designs in the pipeline, from 70+ device customers… It’s kinda nice to see two pretty Read more

AT&T, Boingo Wireless team-up over global Wi-Fi roaming

Wi-Fi roaming provider Boingo Wireless is teaming-up with AT&T to allow the carrier’s customers using the AT&T Wi-Fi International app to access Wi-Fi hotspots all around the world. A total of 1GB of free Wi-Fi per month is included in the deal at no additional charge for AT&T subscribers (with an appropriate plan); in return, Boingo’s users will be able to access AT&T’s hotspots across the U.S. Initially, Boingo will let AT&T customers access Wi-Fi hotspots at major international airports with service continuing to expand throughout 2013. So if you Read more

Qualcomm Technologies, Facebook team-up to “enhance performance” of Facebook Home and Facebook for Android on Snapdragon-powered devices

Qualcomm’s wholly-owned subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies has been working with Facebook to optimize Facebook Home and Facebook for Android across all Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. According to Qualcomm’s press release, these optimizations are designed to enable better overall performance, lower power consumption and improved data efficiency for consumers using Facebook Home and Facebook for Android. In that sense, the collaboration between the two companies involved systems-level performance enhancements related to key Snapdragon processor technologies including GPU, CPU and 3G/4G modem. The end result is a performance optimized solution that delivers a “great Read more

Mozilla, Samsung partner over Servo, Mozilla’s next-gen browser engine for multi-core processors

Samsung is teaming-up with Mozilla to help it make Servo, its next-gen browser engine that supports multi-core processors. The problem today’s mobile web browsers have is that they don’t use all the processing power modern smartphones and tablets have. WebGL, which uses the graphics processor; and HTML5 Web Workers, which bring a multi-threading approach to JavaScript; are the only exceptions to the rule and Mozilla thinks there’s room for improvements. According to the company’s CTO Brendan Eich, parallel computing is the future though today’s web standards themselves make it hard Read more

Verizon launches Delphi Vehicle Diagnostics Service; Could be yours for $250 + $5/month

Verizon is teaming-up with Delphi to provide its customers who care a lot about their cars with the Vehicle Diagnostic System. If you’re a car nut or a small business which could benefit from something like this, you may want to try this out to always know what’s happening with your vehicle. In order to do so, you’ll have to buy a $250 hardware module and then pay an additional $5 every month. The module itself is hooked to the vehicle’s ODBII port, and once plugged – it automatically starts Read more

ZTE teams-up with Intrepidus to make its smartphones more secure

ZTE is teaming-up with NCC Group’s Intrepidus — which is a leading provider of mobile application and device security services — to (obviously) make its smartphones (and tablets) more secure. Under the deal, Intrepidus will evaluate the security mechanisms of ZTE-made smartphones, including identifying potential vulnerabilities; conducting penetration testing of ZTE device management interfaces and ZTE device features; and performing reverse engineering and source code review. As a result, ZTE should be able to deliver a wide range of “smart, stylish choices” for smartphone users with the added peace of Read more