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You can now sync Philips Hue with Spotify to make your lights react to music

TechSpot

The partnership between Spotify and Signify, the company responsible for the Philips Hue line, was announced today, offering an alternative to the Signify app to synchronize music with ambient lights. This integration, however, works differently, as Signify links directly to Spotify to do its magic.

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As edtech crowds up, Campuswire bets big on real-time learning

TechCrunch

Campuswire’s key monetization strategy, which was selling pro licenses for its online class software, felt threatened by alternatives. The move marks Campuswire’s further dive into synchronous learning. Real, lasting learning has to be synchronous for the majority of people.”. Teachers are leaving schools.

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Stop the Daisy Chain of Bad Data Management

3rd Sector Labs

An alternative pattern to any technology network is “hub and spoke”, where all computers, devices and peripherals are connected to a central computer or hub. Create a plan for proper synchronization of your data, following a set of controlled, manual steps. – and you will need to figure out which matter most.

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About Hootsuite's Costly 'Freemium' Plans and Free Twitter Alternatives

Forum One

It also synchronizes with its mobile versions. In our trials, we did find it a worthwhile alternative, but ultimately stuck with Hootsuite because it is not as full-featured or easy to use. However, Twitter is the only supported social network, there is no mobile alternative, and there is no team collaboration.

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Google copied Sonos’ multi-zone speaker technology, US import regulator rules

The Verge

Two of the other patents are about synchronizing multiple devices over a network; one is about setting up a playback device (such as a Wi-Fi speaker) for communication over the network to begin with. Alternatively, Google can —as other companies have already done —pay a fair royalty for the technologies it has misappropriated.

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9 insider tips for promoting your app

The Next Web

This might seem obvious, but it’s dangerously easy for development teams to fall into ‘group think’ and create something that already exists or is only slightly better than current alternatives in the market. Those are not the apps that get featured. Timing and momentum. Simultaneous exposure in various outlets has amplifying effects.

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Async replaces work calls with asynchronous voice messages

TechCrunch

Alternatively, you can add recipients to your voice message directly in Async. The alternative would have been a list of questions in an email conversation. Similarly, intensive Async users can synchronize their calendar with Async and choose to turn events into Async conversations. That could also lead to new signups.

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