The Comunicano for Wednesday March 8 2017

The Cable News Network is going virtual. CNN has announced the launch of a new immersive journalism unit called CNNVR that will produce videos and live streams…

BBC and ITV’s U.S. service BritBox lets you stream “Prime Suspect,” “Absolutely Fabulous,” “EastEnders,” and more.

Virtual reality hardware wouldn’t be anywhere without content to play on it – that’s why so many big video companies are putting resources towards immersive, 3…

Shazam was one of the winners of the early app rush.

Validation of an opportunity or an end for an idea that was disproven? It’s up to you to decide.

As part of an ‘open cloud’ initiative, 8×8 picks up Sameroom.io for its ability to provide interoperability among disparate team messaging services.

Sources tell us that Google is acquiring Kaggle, a platform that hosts data science and machine learning competitions. Details about the transaction remain..

Drivers have long had reason to prefer other services over Uber but haven’t been able to abandon it entirely.

Lyft is launching a program designed to give developers more flexibility when it comes to helping their users summon rides. With the dispatch developer program, the company is white-labeling its ride-hailing service and opening up new ways to call a car outside of the Lyft app.

News: A coalition of 171 public interest groups have sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission and Senate leaders, urging them not to kill the agency’s 2015 net neutrality rules. In the let

Amazon has abandoned its legal battle to protect its Alexa assistant with First Amendment rights — for now at least. 

74 percent of organizations saw an increase in Mac adoption and 76 percent saw more use of iPhones and iPads in 2016 than in 2015

Does this add up?

‘Q Suite’ revealed at ITB trade show in Berlin

Data downloads increased by more than half last year as telcos raised quotas to meet demand, an ACCC report reveals.

Local movie fans will no longer receive iTunes or Google Play download codes when buying Marvel, Pixar and Dreamworks movies on disc, as The Walt Disney Company …

While Sim Lim Square is a key retail hub of information technology (IT) products, the lesser-known Sim Lim Tower is a hotchpotch of shops and offices making a real mark on the online world.