With so many competitors in the streaming music business, one cannot sit idle and hope to maintain its customer base. Kudos to Pandora for trying to innovate and stay above the curve. Only time will tell if users prefer this or use other services to find the music they crave

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57585451-93/pandora-now-lets-you-listen-to-albums-before-theyre-released/

This is such a touching story. If you have ever thought that technology is all about entertainment and not about making our lives better or more fuller, take a look at this:

http://news.msn.com/world/chinese-man-finds-family-after-23-years-using-google-maps

(Please. No comments about Apple Maps. That would just take away from this story.)

Surprise, Surprise. Look who has come out on top in 3G?

With all of the excitement on 4G though, if T-Mobile is unable to scale up and begin to grow its user base, it won’t matter that T-Mobile came out on top in this survey. T-Mobile is going to need to continue to leverage Metro PCS and continue to promote its new contract free plans if it wants to move the market share needle.

http://www.techhive.com/article/2039307/t-mobile-wins-3g-shootout-sprint-and-verizon-speeds-fade.html

This only further indicates that the market has caught up. It is no longer the iPhone and everyone else. Samsung has clearly differentiated itself from other hardware manufacturers and is on par with Apple. As a result, an incremental upgrade in the form of the iPhone 5S may not be enough to calm fears that Samsung is not going away.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/tech/mobile/galaxy-s4-top-smartphone/index.html

With the Chromebook Pixel from Google and now Samsung’s new hardware, there are now competitors in the game of resolution bragging rights. Still, Apple can still lay claim to the trailblazer and trendsetter labels because many companies continue to emulate rather than innovate. Only a few push innovation to the forefront of what they do. Google and Samsung clearly do not have that problem, but they needed to answer the Retina Display in this form of tech arms race. Otherwise, they risk losing the coolness that is associated with their brands.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/20/samsung-bests-apples-retina-display-with-new-notebook-panel

The story here is that Google has interwoven its services in such a way that users are logged into them when they log into their account. It is a great strategy considering that some users might not even try a particular service unless it is staring at them on their dashboard. This service just continues that trend. Besides, who does not like coupons?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419164,00.asp