In a world where Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have joined forces to appeal US Copyright Royalty Board ruling that will increase the royalties paid to songwriters, Apple will apparently be the odd one out.

In an interesting new development, Marriott International – the hotel chain – has just flipped the switch to bring Netflix, Hulu, and Pandora streaming services to the TVs in their hotel rooms. We take a closer look at this initiative by Marriott, right after the jump.

When we think of streaming music services, a few spring to mind. As well as the likes of Grooveshark and Spotify, Pandora is seen as one of the go-to services for personalized radio, and although popular apps are hard to come by on Windows Phone 8, the official Pandora app for Microsoft’s recently-updated mobile platform is now upon us. Pandora for Windows Phone 8 has been a long time coming, but it would appear as though it has been worth the wait: it runs better than even the iOS and Android versions, and offers ad-free streaming until the end of the year.