By John Glenday A standalone BBC Music app available on Android and iOS enabled smartphones and tablets is set to give audiophiles fresh reason to cheer by pulling together music clips from the broadcasters TV and radio stations into one easily searchable location. Content includes live performances, DJ and presenter curated playlists and interviews with musicians. Users will also be able to search for and play all tracks broadcast on BBC Radio over the past week and add favourites to their own playlist although these will be limited to 30 second clips owing to licensing restrictions. Anyone wishing to hear the full length work can Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Justin Pearse The Drum has partnered with IBM Interactive Experience to create a series of films during Mobile World Congress exploring how mobile is fundamentally changing the way businesses operate and how consumers engage with them. Today, The Drum Asia Editor Charlotte McEleny interviewed a robot. The robot is Pepper, the world’s first emotional robot. Pepper is widely available on the consumer and business markets in Japan and is soon arriving in the US and Europe Pepper is designed to read emotions and recognize tones of voice and facial expressions to let it interact with humans. It was developed by SoftBank and Aldebaran Robotics, Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy John Glenday The BBC is readying plans to gather as many as 10,000 voters together at Wembley Arena for a mammoth EU referendum debate just two days before voting opens on 23 June. Representatives from the Leave and Remain camps will be invited on stage to debate the ins and outs of the crucial vote in a televised spectacular hosted by David Dimbleby, Emily Maitlis, and Mishal Husain. Whilst the precise line-up of debaters has yet to be decided it is thought that the Prime Minister, who heads the remain camp, will come under acute pressure to turn up in person and state his Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Tom Fishburne Tom Fishburne is founder of Marketoon Studios. Follow his work at marketoonist.com or on Twitter @tomfishburne See more of the Marketoonist here Read full story › Source: Marketing Week...
Read MoreBy Alan Wolk On paper, the FCC’s recent move to open up the set top box to third parties seems like a sweet deal for consumers. Rather than have to rent whatever clunky, antiquated box their pay-TV provider offers, viewers will be able to get boxes from a range of manufacturers who will offer them beautiful interfaces, streaming integration and more, quite possibly for less money. It’s a nice vision but it fails to take into account the reality of the market: there’s really no need for set top boxes anymore, regardless of who makes them. For quite some time now the Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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