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via The Verge:

Spotify today announced that Spotify Radio, a Pandora-esque recommendations service available in its desktop app, will be available later today through an app update on iOS devices.  Just like in Spotify's desktop app, you can now pick a song, album, artist, or playlist, and build a radio station using it.

Spotify's latest Spotify Radio release add another contender (Rdio, Pandora, Amazon) to free Cloud-based streaming music choice for your users, as well as for the bandwidth on your home or office network. 

via Engadget:

Engadget has a great look at both of the new Windows Surface Tablets announced yesterday evening.  The two devices; the Surface for Windows RT Tablet and the Surface for Windows 8 Pro Tablet; have considerably different internal hardware specs and serve different mobile needs.

From The Verge last week: Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe's making it a little easier — the free Adobe reader app for iOS and Android is being updated to support electronic signatures and basic annotations. The ability to sign PDFs while not using a separate third-party application will be a welcome update for Adobe Reader users on iOS and Android devices.  Do you find yourself signing PDF files while mobile on your Tablet device?  Does it work well?  Reach out to us today on Twitter or Facebook to discuss if this is a good use of technology, or is it just going one step too far?...

From Inhabitat Blog: London based pod purveyor Podtime has been marketing the pods specifically to businesses concerned that the Olympic traffic will impact productivity. While the notion of asking your staff to literally live in the office may be a little distasteful, the pods pose an interesting solution to the specific, short-term problem. While we here at ITSNYC preach uptime and availability of your data, we haven't considered lodging with your servers.  Our offsite datacenter (in the wilds of Massachusetts) probably wouldn't let us sleep-over, anyway. :) If you're interested in learning how to move your businesses server infrastructure to the Cloud or an offsite location (such as ou...

From the Windows Business Blog: So, in light of spring officially kicking-off this month, I wanted to offer some tips and tricks to spring clean your small business this year. Evenmoreso with the unseasonably warm temperatures today in the Northeast US, have you taken the time put your technology through a spring cleaning?  Jay from the Windows Business Blog covers some great tips to apply to your computer systems and make sure they're up to date and compatible with all the latest software.  If you'd like ITS' help with organizing your business' techology contact us today!  Or, if you'd just like to chat, reach out to us on Twitter or Facebook to discuss how we can help you move your busin...