Friday
Nov072014

Sony officially brings PS4 Remote Play to Xperia Z2

Making the PlayStation Vita a bit redundant, Sony has officially announced that its PS4 Remote Play feature is now available to the previous generation flagship, the Xperia Z2. The feature is coming to both the smartphone and tablet version, which means you can play your PS4 games while you’re away from the console and TV but within the same Wi-Fi network. Sony says they will only bringing this functionality to Xperia devices.

Source: Sony Mobile | Via: Engadget

Friday
Nov072014

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
Friday
Nov072014

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.

 

Friday
Nov072014

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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