| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Sony SmartBand Aims To Be A Better Fitbit
| | | The Sony SmartBand is the latest fitness tracker to hit the market, and it has a little more to offer than what you'll find from other competitors these days. (Mashable)
Why This Is Important: Smart watches, both the available and the anticipated, may be the buzz of the industry, but fitness bands are the devices currently pulling in sales. Sony aims to knock one of the most popular bands down a notch with the ability to control music from the user's smartphone.
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| | #2 | Prices Of 4K Monitors Could Go Under $400 By Year End, Says Intel Exec
| | | The price of 4K monitors could fall to under $400 by the end of this year, according to Intel. (Computerworld)
Why This Is Important: Although Intel didn't specify how these prices will drop, demand for better-quality monitors is rising as more computers feature touchscreen panels.
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| | #3 | Even After Beats, Pandora Is Not Scared of Apple
| | | Credit where credit's due: Pandora has defended its music-streaming crown quite admirably in the face of serious competition. Even a heavyweight like Apple -- a company that no incumbent likes to see step into the ring -- hasn't been able to make a major dent in Pandora's position. (The Motely Fool)
Why This Is Important: Although Pandora doesn't view Beats Music as direct completion in the curated radio area, it fails to acknowledge the fact that both Beats and Pandora trumpet a curation team as being one of their strongest attributes.
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"The on-demand space ... Google, Spotify, and Apple are competing directly head to head and then a bunch of smaller players. It's not a space we compete in at all. The connected radio, the lean-back experience, the free ad-supported part of music listening, that's Pandora's domain. We still have a dominant market share and by far the best product." -- Pandora CFO Mike Herring
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Has Cloud Computing Been a Failed Revolution?
By Bernard Golden
Speaking at a recent conference, Salesforce.com's Peter Coffee put up a provocative slide: The number of Google searches for the term "cloud computing." It proves, he says, that people no longer find cloud computing compelling. More » |
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