Rather than bricking its SoundTouch line of Wi-Fi home theater speakers, Bose is opening them up to developers via an API.

Preset buttons on SoundTouch speakers and in the app will no longer work, nor will browsing or playing music services directly from the SoundTouch app. Bose also notes that SoundTouch speakers will no ...

Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (EoL) of the expensive home theater ...

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SoundTouch speakers could now have a second life and won’t lose support until May. SoundTouch speakers could now have a second life and won’t lose support until May. is a news writer covering all ...

Bose's SoundTouch speakers aren't going to be quite as bricked as originally planned. In October, Bose announced it would end cloud support for the SoundTouch range, and shut down the mobile app. This ...

Bose makes some of the best speakers around, but they also cost a pretty penny. So when the company revealed plans to drop support for its SoundTouch models and remove key features last year, many ...

Bose is open-sourcing the API documentation for its SoundTouch smart speakers. When a company decides to retire a product line, that's generally the end, but not in this case. This means the hardware ...

Nothing lasts forever, and that is never truer when it comes to personal computers and laptops. And with the current state of the world thanks in part to tariff instability and the growth of AI, ...

Bose has announced it will gift its soon-to-be-discontinued line of SoundTouch speakers to the open-source community, enabling third-party developers and enthusiasts to pick up the mantle of keeping ...