Apple investors yawned at the company’s event unveiling a thinner iPad Air tablet and a new iMac computer. Tim Stevens/CNET As Apple touted how its new iPad Air tablets were so thin and light, the company’s event had investor interest to match. After an event Thursday for the unveiling of the iPad Air 2 and …

Verizon secures content from a major TV programmer not only for its FiOS TV offering but also a developmental wireless service. CNET Verizon’s plans for a wireless television service separate from its FiOS offerings took a significant step closer to reality Wednesday as it secured the rights to Viacom content for the service. As part of a standard agreement renewal …

Apple TV’s walled garden just let in another app: FX Now. David Katzmaier/CNET Apple TV, the streaming-media box with wide reach but a highly selective collection of channels, just added one app that its main rival Roku lacks: FX Now. FX Now is the streaming app for 21st Century Fox’s networks cable FX, FXX, and FXM, previously available on iOS …

Since February, Roku has sold 2 million devices, including the $50 Roku Streaming Sticks introduced in March CNET Roku has sold 10 million of its streaming devices in its lifetime, climbing a rung higher on the milestone ladder from the 8 million it reported in January. That compares to the 20 million Apple has sold as of April of its …

DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket package is key to closing its acquisition by AT&T. Screenshot by Joan E. Solsman/CNET NEW YORK — Like dominos DirecTV set up just to knock over one after the other, the satellite provider expects a key deal with the NFL closing this year and another with AT&T closing soon thereafter. Chairman and Chief Executive Mike White said …

CEO John Legere’s T-Mobile expands its program letting customers listen to streaming music without data-usage worries. James Martin/CNET T-Mobile customers have spoken, and the company is listening. Eventually. Six more services arrive on the carrier’s Music Freedom concept — which doesn’t count streaming music data against customers’ cellular data limits — but not customer favorite Google Play Music, yet. The …

The Showtime Anytime’s app has full episodes of shows for subscribers through approved pay-TV services. John Falcone/CNET Showtime, the premium cable network known for “Dexter” and “Homeland,” has made it past Apple’s gates, with its on-demand videos of full episodes now available on the company’s video-streaming box Apple TV. The app is already available on Roku, which is known for …

Sarah Tew/CNET Smart TVs have long been exiled to the outcast table, but Roku televisions may be arriving at just the right time and the right price — cheap — to move connected televisions into the mainstream. Roku is integrating its popular TV streaming-box capabilities for the first time into television sets from TCL and Hisense, big Chinese manufacturers that …

Sarah Tew/CNET Google’s Chromecast was a break-out hit in what was the niche category of streaming media dongles because it went after what mattered to consumers: low price tag. The Chromecast wasn’t the first wireless streaming-media dongle to come along — Roku had one long before — but the $35 price and the initial offer of three months of free …

In the world of set-top boxes, Roku is hitting the gas, while Apple could be mistaken for asleep at the wheel. In US households last year, nearly half of all purchases of set-top boxes — small electronic devices that stream online video and music on your TV — were Rokus, and Roku devices continue to show the greatest usage among …