Techmeme: Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

September 9, 2012, 6:30 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.

More: PC Magazine, PC World, CNET, GadgeTell, paidContent, Pulse2 Technology …, digitaltrends.com, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, PC World and Cult of Mac

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web. No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices. — Waiting to use Spotify on the Web? Hang on a few weeks. — Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service? Don't hold your breath. — Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company …

More: TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes? — The ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes, not on hard evidence—because there isn't any — WAS ALEC BALDWIN RIGHT? When the actor tussled with American Airlines personnel last December over his desire to continue playing a game …

More: Technology Liberation Front

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Teaching the F.A.A. That Dogs Don't Buckle Up — If you've ever flown Virgin America, you will have seen the cartoonlike safety video that plays before the flight takes off. — In one scene, about a minute into the video, a man is shown sitting next to a large bull as he fumbles with his seat belt.

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Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules — THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. — Every way I look, the scene shifts, the battle unfolds. I have a crazy contraption strapped to my head: a boxy set of goggles that looks like a 22nd-century version of a View-Master. It immerses me in a virtual world.

More: PC Magazine, Pulse2 Technology …, Forbes, The Verge, Joystiq, Blue's News, Kotaku and rc3.org

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

The Royal Nokia Screw-Up That Shouldn't Have Been — Anyone who cares about fostering a dynamic, competitive tech industry should be rooting for Nokia. Even if you're not as gaga for Windows Phone as I am—I think it's the best-designed mobile OS on the market—you've got to concede …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, eWeek and Engadget

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Exclusive photos: We put Nokia's controversial Lumia 920 PureView camera to the test

More: PC World, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, CNET, PetaPixel, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, PandoDaily, My Nokia Blog and NYT Bits. Tweets: @benedictevans

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Amazon Kindle HD Will Allow Users To Opt-Out Of “Special Offers” For $15 — If you've been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device. — An Amazon spokesperson wrote:

More: CNET, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, PC Magazine, Techland, The Verge, Business Insider, Examiner and Geek News Central

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Amazon's Kindle Fire won't be a threat to the iPad until it remembers the rest of the world

More: iMore.com, 9to5Google and Kindle Review

Zee / The Next Web:

This letter from PayPal's President might just make you believe in the company again — It began in May with a frustrated customer, Andy McMillan, discovering his PayPal had been locked. Nothing new. Frustrating, but usually remediable with a phone call or a couple of emails.

More: CNET, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Storify, VentureBeat, The Loop and PandoDaily. Tweets: @davidmarcus

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

The Truth About Convertible Debt at Startups and The Hidden Terms You Didn't Understand — This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. — Ah. We're back to discussing convertible debt again. This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi …

More: A VC, Storify and A VC

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

FCC backpedals from Internet tax — The Federal Communications Commission is rapidly backpedalling from a proposal to tax broadband Internet service after a public outcry over the issue. — Democrats and Republicans at the agency are now blaming each other for pushing the idea in the first place.

Klint Finley / Wired:

As Heroku Boss Flees to Olive Farm, Where's the Platform Cloud Going? — Sometimes, people call it “platform-as-a-service.” But more often than not, they just point to Heroku, the San Francisco company that pioneered this oh-so-hard-to-explain technology.

More: GigaOM

Geeta Dayal / Wired:

The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords — As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright “bots” — automated systems that match content against a database of reference files of copyrighted material. These systems can block streaming video in real time …

More: io9, Boing Boing and Electronic Frontier Foundation

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