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After a pilot of its new “Sponsored Listening” advertisements last year, streaming music service Pandora Radio announced today that it’s rolling out the feature to all advertisers and listeners in its mobile apps. The feature rewards users with an hour of ad-free, uninterrupted listening as long as they first interact with an ad for at least 15 seconds. Pandora says listeners and advertisers responded positively to the pilot program with a 12 percent increase in brand awareness and a 30 percent increase in purchase intent, so now the company is rolling out the feature as a core part of its advertising efforts and to all of its approximately 80 million users....

Parks & Recreation wasn’t a series with a lot of foreshadowing, but it did have a small tease regarding Leslie and Ron’s feud in season 7 all the way back in season 2. Created by Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, Parks & Recreation made its debut on NBC in 2009 and came to an end in 2015 after seven seasons. The series was originally planned as a spinoff of The Office, and struggled a bit to find its own tone and style, hence why season 1 isn’t exactly the best....

iTunes customers who didn’t watch Apple’s iPhone keynote last month were a bit surprised to discover that they suddenly owned a copy of U2’s new album “Songs of Innocence,” even though they’d never bought it. The band had partnered with Apple to add the album to every single iTunes account for free in what they called the largest album debut ever. iTunes users were less than thrilled at the arrangement, noting that the album was being automatically downloaded to their devices in many cases and there was no way to remove it from their purchase history....

Apple has begun airing a new TV ad to promote the iPhone 5s that focuses on uses by parents within both “Smart Homes” and in everyday family life. The ad, aptly named “Parenthood,” shows how the iPhone can be used to record home video, find a lost dog, monitor the children, and turn off the lights in the living room. The ad comes ahead of HomeKit Smart Home appliance integration with iOS 8 this fall....

Just wanted to give a shout out today to OpenOffice.org! I just grabbed a copy of the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta released 5/7 onto my MAC PowerBook now that it supports MAC OS X Natively. OpenOffice.org and the Office 2007 Import features – I’ve been waiting for this. So far so good. No issues to report BUT, I’ll keep everyone posted! You can snag a copy of it here. Update 12/18/2010 – Release Candidate 3....

On this page, we will guide you on how to download and install the Oppo F9 and F9 Pro DA file. DA file also known as the Download Agent file is a file that helps in fixing the device secure boot error. If you are using the Oppo F9 / F9 Pro and facing any issues such as FRP lock, corrupted memory, secure boot error, authentication, or buffer error. To flash the Secure Boot DA file on your Oppo F9 / F9 Pro, you need flash tools like SP Flash Tool, NCK Box, Miracle Box, or CM2 box....

Oppo Reno Ace is one of the flagship smartphones from Oppo that was launched in October 2019. It came with Android 9.0 Pie over ColorOS 6 out-of-the-box. Meanwhile, the company has already announced ColorOS 7 version officially a couple of months ago based on Android 10. Now, the interested beta testers can apply for the third batch of early adopters program. Oppo Reno Ace Android 10 Update with ColorOS 7 early beta recruitment process will start from March 7....

The 2020 Oscars represent Adam Driver’s best chances at a win to date. While he is best known to modern audiences as Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Driver was amassing an impressive filmography before he joined the galaxy far, far away. Prior to his first appearance in the Star Wars franchise, Driver had already worked with talented and prestigious directors like Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Joel & Ethan Coen....

From 9to5Toys.com: Otterbox has just released the iPhone 4/4S Defender Series case with iON Intelligence. In addition to the rugged protection you’ve come to expect from OtterBox, this case also features a backup battery and intelligent power management app. According to Otterbox, “The iON intelligence software is an app that estimates battery power and predicts battery time remaining by monitoring device usage habits.” This hardware and software combo enables iPhone users to continually use their devices without worrying about battery life....

OtterBox is out today with a new option to protect your 2018 iPad Pro. The Symmetry Series 360 is now available for both the 11- and 12.9-inch models at Apple stores. Announced in a press release, OtterBox detailed the new thin, protective folio-style case for iPad Pro. OtterBox Symmetry Series 360 Highlights It also features a cutout for Apple Pencil storage/charging. This is the first OtterBox case available for the new iPad Pro so far, and it’s an Apple store exclusive....

Panic, the company behind several popular developer applications and more, is teasing the forthcoming launch of its new new coda editor. Dubbed Nova, the new editor is a follow-up to Coda 2, and Panic describes it as a major shift in thinking. Panic first announced the successor to Coda in March, explaining that the web development space has changed a lot since Coda was originally released 12 years ago. Now, Panic says that Nova will enter private beta testing soon....

First you have to sign up for an OnLive account. Then download the free OnLive Desktop app on your iPad. Launch the app, log in then you’re ready to start using it. It comes with a stripped down version of Windows 7. Here’s an example of the Interface after I logged in. You have your familiar Start menu, Taskbar, desktop icons and more. The best part is you get Office 2010 – full not just a Web Apps version....

In 2019, Florence Pugh became a star. Though she had some independent film cred from 2016’s Lady Macbeth, Florence Pugh’s 2019 movies are so impressive that the Academy Awards will make a huge mistake if they let it go unrecognized, and she is a viable candidate as both Best Actress for Midsommar and Best Supporting Actress for Little Women (2019). As 2020’s awards season develops, Pugh’s snub looks more and more likely....

Outlander has proven to be a huge success across the world. Based on a series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, the show follows the life of British nurse, Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe). Claire finds herself falling through time and arriving in the eighteenth-century, where she falls in love with a Scottish highlander. Before Claire’s marriage to Jamie (Sam Heughan), she had also been married to ex-soldier Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies). Though Frank still had his terrible moments in the show, Menzies’ interpretation made it much easier to like the character, portraying a much softer side to the soldier rather than the chauvinist seen in the books — which is mostly what’ll we focus on....

Acclaimed director Bong Joon-ho’s new movie Parasite gets an official trailer as the film prepares to hit the States this fall. The director of such international hits as The Host, Memories of Murder, Mother, Netflix’s Okja, and perhaps most famously, Snowpiercer, Joon-ho is the rare kind of director whose name on a project is enough to garner widespread attention. That also helps his films when it comes to marketing them to American audiences, as is made evident by the way Neon has chosen to push his new film ahead of its October release in theaters....

As this photo of the original Mophie Juice Pack and Tylt’s Energi for iPhone 6 shows, iPhone battery cases haven’t changed much over the years. They’ve existed for almost as long as iPhones, and remained ubiquitous due to Apple’s continued focus on thinness over longevity. That hasn’t been great for consumers: as 9to5’s Seth Weintraub put it, people are more impacted by their phones’ battery life than an extra 2mm of thinness....

The new arrangement is two-fold: First, Oracle and Telefonica will jointly offer cloud platform-as-a-service and applications to enterprises and public sector organizations. Next, Telefonica will serve as a hosting partner for Oracle’s upcoming cloud region in Madrid. Oracle has been expanding its cloud business across the globe rapidly – the Madrid region is one of at least 44 cloud regions Oracle plans to have open by the end of 2022....

The history of film is full of successful genre mash-ups, with just about every possible pairing having happened to good effect at least once. Two genres that often go great together are sci-fi and horror, which makes sense when one considers that both genres often deal with things that transcend humanity’s normal perception of reality or understanding of provable science. Arguably the most revered sci-fi/horror crossover film of all-time is Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, which, of course, went on to birth quite the lucrative franchise for studio 20th Century Fox....

The original ending for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol saw Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt become the new secretary of the IMF and pass the torch to a different franchise lead. Released in 2011, the fourth installment of the popular action series introduced audiences to Jeremy Renner’s William Brandt. At the time, Renner was a rising star, coming off consecutive Oscar nominations and lining up potential franchise breakouts. His joining Mission: Impossible was interpreted by many as a way for Paramount to transition from Cruise to a new headliner that could carry the movies moving forward....

After AT&T revealed to us that it was planning to block FaceTime over cellular for customers not on its pricy Mobile Share plans, an attorney at advocacy group Public Knowledge suggested the carrier’s decision violated the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet rules and warranted an investigation. Today, we get word (via from GigaOM) that Public Knowledge, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, and Free Press are planning to file a complaint with the FCC:...