Friday, November 15, 2013WanderWe Adds All-In-One Booking Feature For Travel SiteWanderWe.com, the online vacation booking service recently launched by Oversee.net, said Friday that it has launched a new, all-in-one booking service for short, weekend getaways. The company said the new feature combines all hotel, activities, and tours in a single booking package. WanderWe is currently targeting California, the Northeast, and Metro DC areas with its service, with plans to expand into US Pacific Northwest and Southeast by early 2014. WanderWe launched in September, as part of a (More info...)
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Slacker In Portal Deal With Time Warner CableSan Diego-based streaming music service Slacker said Friday morning that it has inked a deal with Time Warner Cable, which will provide free access to Slacker's service via Time Warner Cable's new web portal. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Slacker said the deal gives it access to more than 11 million Time Warner Cable residential Internet subscribers.
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textPlus Offers Up Free Calls to The PhilippinesMarina Del Rey-based mobile texting and messaging app textPlus said Thursday that it is doing its part to help out its customers with friends and families in the Philippines. According to the mobile app developer, it will let users of its app dial any mobile or landline number in the Philippines for free to check in on family and friends. textPlus said it started offering free calls to the area earlier this week, after the massive destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the country. textPlus als (More info...)
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Tillster Names Betfair, Shopzilla Vet As Chief Technology OfficerLos Angeles-based Tillster, the provider of restaurant and casual dining ordering systems which is the combination of EMN8 and Snapfinger, said today that it has named Phil Dixon as its new Chief Technology Officer. Dixon was most recently the Chief Technology Officer of European Internet company Betfair, and had previously been Vice President of Engineering at Shopzilla.com. He also has served at Project.net, NetProfit Investment Technologies, Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Sourcefinder and In (More info...)
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WiSpry Debuts New RF Tuning ChipIrvine-based WiSpry, the developer of radio frequency (RF) semiconductors, said Thursdya that it has launched a new product. The company said it has launched a new, single chip solution which combines three tunable RF capacitors in a single package. The company's new WS1050 tunable RF capacitor is aimed at mobile device designers, and allows for the design of mobile devices which include a very small and thin smartphone antenna to support a wider range of frequencies. The tunable RF capacitors b (More info...)
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DTS Powers PlayStation 4 AudioCalabasas-based DTS, the developer of surround sound and other audio processing technology, reported this morning that Sony's new PlayStation 4 incorporates its DTS-HD Master Audio|7.1 decoder. The technology is being used to decode surround sound from Blu-ray disks. Financial impact of the deal were not announced. DTS said that Sony's PlayStation 4 is the first product shipping with the decoder.
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