Qualcomm Atheros announced earlier this week the launch of Skifta Engine to streamline and enhance the connected home experience. Skifta Engine will provide original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) a software solution to be embedded in NAS drives, smart routers and set-top boxes that will deliver media shifting capabilities from virtually any source – inside the home and out – to connected TVs, stereos and game consoles. When paired with the Skifta Android mobile app, consumers utilizing Skifta Engine powered devices will be able turn their Android smartphone or tablet into a global remote control to grab their music, photos or videos from local, remote or cloud content sources and throw it up on any smart entertainment devices. If you would like to know more about Skifta Engine read here: Qualcomm Atheros Announces Skifta Engine for Networking Device Manufacturers and Skifta Launches Engine to Sync Content Across Devices
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This week a portion of our team attended the Glimpse Conference for social discovery in San Francisco. Glimpse: the social discovery conference, was the first conference focused on the future of social discovery. Companies and products in the social discovery space aim to connect people with new places, people and products that they will enjoy based on their social interactions and existing interests. Glimpse did a great job bringing together leading experts in social discovery to discuss the future of how we live, decide and buy. In addition to having reps from social networking heavy hitters like Facebook, LinkedIn, Tagged and Foursquare, media companies including BlogHer, Pulse and StumbleUpon, the event, emceed by the San Francisco Chronicles very own Casey Newton, hosted an impressive gathering of reporters with everyone from Shayndi Raice (Wall Street Journal), John Swartz (USA Today - pictured with team left), Mike Issac (All Things D), Doug MacMillan (Bloomberg Businessweek), Matt Rosoff (Business Insider) and Brian Blau (Gartner) to Chris Taylor (Mashable), Dylan Tweney (VentureBeat) and Sarah Lacy (PandoDaily). FastPencil co-founders walking through the demo Yesterday, Gartner analyst Michael McGuire stopped by FastPencil's offices and met with co-founders Steve Wilson and Michael (Mash) Ashley for a demo of FastPencil's proprietary, exclusive and highly lauded publishing platform. Mike (and Gartner analyst Allen Weiner who joined the meeting via phone) got an inside look into the platform that enables authors, publishers and the enterprise to write, design, publish and sell books in print and digital formats with ease and control, higher margins and speed to market. Following the meeting, both Steve and Mash challenged Michael McGuire to a game of table tennis.
Roku Streaming Platform UI Thursday Slacker Radio announced availability on Roku, the leading streaming platform in the United States. Roku owners can now enjoy the entire Slacker Radio lineup featuring 200+ DJ-curated customizable stations, ESPN Radio and a music catalog that is more than 10 times larger than the leading radio competitor. If you would like to know more about Roku and Slacker Radio read here, http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/01/roku-slacker-radio-amazon-watchlist/ Slacker Radio application for Windows 8 Slacker Radio also announced that their application for Windows 8 Release Preview is now available. This application has been created specifically for Windows 8 to fully utilize the features of the Windows Metro style UI. Music fans can listen to the entire Slacker Radio lineup, including a music library that is 10 times larger than the leading Internet radio competitor, with Share charm integration (for sending your favorite stations to friends) and the ability to multitask. You can find out more about Slackers Window 8 application here: http://www.examiner.com/article/slacker-radio-arrives-on-roku-and-windows-8-release-preview Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to Comic-Con International: San Diego to get the latest and greatest scoop on whats going on in the world of comic books. Since the organizations inception in 1970, Comic-Con has created unparalleled awareness for this growing art form and continues to do so with flourishing popularity and community involvement. With such prestige, everyone wants a slice of the pie that is now Comic-Con. Company panelists from all across the globe flock to sunny San Diego alike with hopes of being one of the handful selected to present to the ever-knowledgeable audience in attendance. Smith Micro have done just that - two years running. Slowly becoming a fundamental aspect to Comic-Con's unique selection of speakers, Smith Micro is coming back this year with an arsenal of topics that are changing the graphic novel world and the medium of storytelling through art. Smith Micro is expected to drop some knowledge on:
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