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Tidal Narrative Turns from Quality of Sound – to Quality of Royalties

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Soon to Face New Competitor in Service Created by Apple and Beats by Dr. Dre

Tidal logoThe narrative surrounding Tidal, the latest music streaming service to enter the increasingly crowded music delivery market last year, has taken a new and unforeseen turn with the purchase of the service by Jay Z. Originally conceived as a pay music streaming service offering a higher performance alternative to the ad-driven free services of highly compressed music streamers such as Pandora and Spotify, the Tidal narrative was one of quality. Now?

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SupplyStream Says Its All About the Search

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SupplyStream LogoSupplyStream, the industry product-line aggregator that offers dealers and integrators a web platform with cross-vendor consistency in product and pricing information, announced today that it has upgraded its search function based on feedback from current users. The company also says that it will make its API available to select 3rd party software solution providers.

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First Product of Stratecon/NewBay Media Agreement is Online Now

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The Stratecon Group logoWe announced last week that Strata-gee.com’s parent company, The Stratecon Group, had reached an agreement with NewBay Media to supply content for use by their many media properties such as Residential Systems. Now, we are pleased to announce that the first product of that agreement is available online.

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IBM to Invest $3 Billion to Launch ‘Internet of Things’ Unit

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Momentum Building in Emerging IoT Market

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International Business Machines Corp. – the company better known as IBM – announced this week that it will invest a cool $3 billion dollars (yes, that’s billion with a ‘b’) to launch a new division focused on the now rapidly emerging “Internet of Things” (IoT) market. IBM hopes to convince customers it is the expert they need when it comes to “gathering and making sense of the surge in real-time data” according to a Reuters report.

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Kaleidescape’s Latest VP of Sales is Out After Only 8 Weeks

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BREAKING NEWS

Kaleidescape logoIn a development that, depending on your viewpoint, is either very shocking – or not surprising at all –  we learned on Wednesday that Kaleidescape Vice President of Sales Mark Weisenberg has left the company. Even in a company known for turmoil at the Sales VP position – this is an unusually quick turnaround. We originally announced Weisenberg’s appointment as Kaleidescape VP of Sales in an exclusive SYNCH newsletter at the end of January…just eight weeks ago.

What the heck is going on at Kaleidescape? And why did this happen so suddenly?… [Read more…] about Kaleidescape’s Latest VP of Sales is Out After Only 8 Weeks

21st Century Distributing Announces Integration Innovation Roadshow

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21st Century Distributing logoGarner, NC-based 21st Century Distributing, a consumer electronics distributor based in the Southeast, announced this week that it has reconfigured its usual dealer show, converting it into a roadshow with an all-new mobile demo display. Scheduled to hit six major markets throughout the Southeast, the event is now called the Integration Innovation Roadshow.

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Apple Acquires Empty Panasonic Factory for R&D Facility in Japan

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Apple, Inc. LogoIs the pendulum swinging back? The mayor of Yokohama, Japan, Ms. Fumiko Hayashi, said today that Apple, Inc. has purchased an empty Panasonic factory and will turn it into a state-of-the-art research and development center. For many Japanese, this is likely a highly ironic turn of events, as for decades, Panasonic was the leading edge technology developer.

But the mayor of Yokohama, seems excited at the prospect. See why we say that below… [Read more…] about Apple Acquires Empty Panasonic Factory for R&D Facility in Japan

The Stratecon Group & NewBay Media Reach Agreement on Content Supply Program

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BREAKING NEWS

Content to Include In-Depth Analyses on Key Industry Topics

Graphic of Stratecon/NewBay dealThe Stratecon Group, Inc. (parent company to, and publisher of, the Strata-gee.com website) and NewBay Media, LLC have reached an agreement on a content supply program. Under this agreement, Stratecon will create a series of in-depth articles and analyses on a variety of key topics for the technology industry – and for electronic systems integrators – to be published by one or more NewBay Media properties.

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Stunning Stories of Impending Doom Swirl Around Sharp

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Photo of Sharp facility in JapanIn just the last two days, Japanese and U.S. press outlets are releasing a slew of stories of Sharp Corp.’s impending doom in the form of a restructuring announcement that isn’t expected to be officially released until May. Nonetheless, multiple reports have emerged from a wide range of media sources including the Nikkei and Reuters news services with a relatively wide range of estimated job cuts – all citing unnamed sources.

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Think Apple’s Watch is Doomed to Fail? Better Think Again

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This is a drawing from the patent application by Apple.

Apple, Inc. announced the coming availability of the Watch, its first major product in years, at a presentation earlier this month. Since that announcement, we’ve been struck by the lack of enthusiasm for the product amongst members of the TECH press. In conversations with colleagues, we heard many predict that the Watch is doomed to failure, in part because of this tepid response.

Now, results from a new survey suggests TECH wonks may be wrong… [Read more…] about Think Apple’s Watch is Doomed to Fail? Better Think Again