Taylor Swift's adoring fans can still get their streaming music fix on RDIO

image from Taylorswift.com

Pop superstar Taylor Swift rocked the interwebs by pulling out of popular streaming service Spotify this week. Swift's sentiments that streaming services like Spotify fail to properly compensate artists as well as musicians, engineers and producers that create the music. So, as an experiment, streaming music was something Swift no longer wanted to participate in. Thankfully, fans of Swift's music can turn to RDIO which announced that the full library of Swift's musical ouvre would be available (except the latest album "1989") will remain available through the following ways through the platform’s ad-supported Internet radio service. 

• on-demand, allowing paid subscribers to listen to any of her songs anywhere, anytime they want
• Internet radio, allowing anyone to hear her songs as part of the ad-supported Internet radio experience

Dead Hunt brings zombie warfare to Windows Phone

Dead Hunt by Illogical Games brings multi-level Zombie slaying game action to Windows and Windows Phone. This  top-down shooter puts you in the middle of a Zombie apocalypse where you do battle with waves of Zombies. Check it out here.

Amazon's Echo is a standalone voice assistant you can boss around

Got to hand it to Amazon, eh? Days after announcing same-day delivery service for Prime members in Vanvouver and Toronto, they now  revealed a standalone personal assistant.

Echo looks like a speaker but is actually a connected voice assistant like Apple's Siri, Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana. As shown by the cringeworthy ad above, it is triggered by the 'Alexa' word and can be engaged in a number of ways.

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ASUS ZenWatch breaks cover, coming Best Buy and Google Play for $199

ASUS is entering the Android Wear space with its ZenWatch wearable and is making it available to US Best Buy retail stores on November 9 for and lateron the Google Play store for an SRT of $ 199.99.

ASUS' take on the smart watch has a stainless-steel case, features an attractive layered design composed of a striking rose-gold-colored band inset between two steel layers. The case is curved for increased comfort and a stylish look, and the watch face is covered with a layer of curved glass. It is designed to look like a traditional dress watch and will work with most Android smartphones running Android 4.3 and newer.

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