— There’s good news and somewhat bad news at T-Mobile USA today. The good news is that the operator, which soon will acquire MetroPCS, had cut out the long-standing industry practice of annual contracts, instead opting to allow subscribers to choose one of several unlimited talk/text/data plans at $10 per GB incremental monthly pricing (i.e.,  $50 a month for 1 Gb, 2 GB for $60, 4 GB for $70). However, handset subsidies appear to be gone, with the price of a new smartphone broken down into 24 monthly payments added on top of the service fee. Customers also have the choice of paying for a new device all at once.
 
— At next month’s NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, Digital Nirvana will introduce AnyStream IQ , which it touts as the industry’s first cloud-based solution for streamed media monitoring. Anystream IQ reportedly records, logs and monitors live and recorded streamed broadcasts for Web-captioning compliance and proof of advertising. The cloud-based subscription service needs no hardware or software; users specify the URL of the stream, and AnyStream IQ records the streams, extracts the closed captions (if any) and provides a browser-based interface to search the recorded streams.

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DirecTV Bringing Glance AI to Gemini Next Year

Glance AI rolled out on Samsung Galaxy phones this summer, allowing users to browse looks, save them, try on clothes and more through a personal AI experience. Now, it’s coming to its first U.S. television provider with DirecTV Gemini devices slated to begin rolling out the feature in 2026.

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