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Pandora Removes Caps on Free Accounts
After a long beta period, streaming music service Pandora today launched its new, HTML5-based website. That, by itself, would have been a newsworthy story, but I think what’s really going to resonate with users is the face that this launch also heralds the end to Pandora’s 40 hours listening cap for users with free accounts. The free accounts will, of course, continue to feature ads and lower quality audio than paid accounts. While the company still markets “unlimited listening” as a major perk for paying users ($36/year), one of the main reasons for the company’s most active users to pay for the service is now gone.
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10 Blue Links Weren’t Enough: Bing Gets Some Action on the Side
Bing today added a number of “action buttons” to its search results. With these, you can find links to the top actions most users take on sites from airlines, couriers, restaurants, banks, rental cars, software downloads and hotels.
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Catching Up: Today’s Must-Read Tech Stories
Every day, we compile a list with the most interesting tech stories published over the last 24 hours. Today was one of the busiest news days in quite [...]
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Report: U.S. Broadband Speeds Remain Slow, 26th in the World
The U.S. may be the birthplace of the Internet, but when it comes to fast Internet access for consumers today, the U.S. continues to lag behind. According [...]
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Digg Launches Newsrooms: Hopes New Algorithm Can Bring Users Back
It’s not just Facebook that’s experimenting with new ways to get its users to find interesting news, but Digg – the slowly fading grandfather of tech-focused aggregation [...]
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