Author: rssmasher

Would you want to flee the neighborhood if a kooky cat lady with 40 furry friends bought the house next door? What if some dude obsessed with wind chimes moved in, and the clanging-jangling kept you awake all night? Or, perhaps the arrival of a family with 13 destructive kids would send you on a…

The Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament is in full swing and set to run through July 15 and, for the third consecutive year, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is livestreaming digital news channel The Wimbledon Channel via Twitter. The AELTC’s broadcast partners back The Wimbledon Channel, which is livestreamed from the grounds at…

The agreement has been approved by the boards of both companies. It’s estimated that AMS will account for about 8% of the combined company’s revenue upon closing.

The entry-level plan, “Live a Little,” will now cost $40 per month, with the “Just Right,” “Go Big” and “Gotta Have It” plans also seeing the $5 rate bump. The company’s Spanish-language bundle will
remain unchanged at $45 per month.

The new version of the magazine will be bigger, with a larger format, more pages and heavier paper stock to put an emphasis on photography and give the product a more premium feel.

On average, the ad-supported multi-screen TV 18-34 audience is six times larger than Facebook and over two times larger than YouTube in the summer months, according to the Video Advertising Bureau,
the video advertising trade group.

Due to what it’s calling a bug, the social giant says it temporarily unblocked some users that had been previously blocked. The glitch may have impacted as many as 800,000 users of Messenger and its
flagship app — all of whom it is presently notifying.

Maryland’s “Online Electioneering and Transparency Act,” which took effect July 1, requires online platforms to make records of online political ad buys available within 48 hours.

Facebook is pulling the plug on three underperforming applications, saying that user data will be deleted from those apps within 90 days. The social network acquired ProtoGeo Oy, parent of fitness-tracking “activity diary” application Moves, in April 2014, and Moves continued on as a stand-alone app, recording users’ daily activities including walking, biking and running….

Thinking years ahead from today, there’s little doubt my now three-year-old great-niece will be spending a good portion of her adult life enjoying the diversity of a screen-less society. She’ll look at a world enabled by highly-evolved AI, absorb information and entertainment and have problems solved for her. She won’t necessarily be tethered to a…