First there was Prime Day. Now there’s Amazon Day. Amazon is slowly rolling out a new delivery option for its Prime members in the US, called Amazon Day, the company said Friday. The invite-only program lets members set a specific day of the week for their shipments to arrive. For example, if you pick Thursday, …
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Amazon’s best-kept secret is AmazonSmile, a simple and effective way to support just about any charity. Whenever you make an eligible purchase, the shopping giant normally donates half of 1 percent of the total price to that charity. That donation rate is going way up this week. Read more: 6 ways to give to charity without even trying AmazonSmile just …
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Now playing: Watch this: CNET UK Podcast 546: The iPhone verdict and Huawei’s… 35:51 We’ve given the iPhone XS, the XS Max and the more affordable iPhone XR the full review treatment, but which is best for you? Dive into the nitty-gritty with us on this rather phone-centric episode of the podcast. Andy also gives us the lowdown on why …
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The boost Amazon received from Prime Day wasn’t high enough to vault the retail giant over Wall Street’s expectations. Amazon said Thursday that its third-quarter revenue jumped 29 percent, to $56.6 billion, helped by a take from its annual Prime Day sale that RBC Capital Markets estimated at $2 billion. Amazon’s increased revenue still fell shy of the $57.1 billion …
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The Roku Streaming Stick Plus just got a permanent $10 price cut. It’s now officially $60, down from the $70 price it debuted at a year ago. Even at its original price, the Streaming Stick Plus was enthusiastically given the CNET Editors’ Choice Award, offering 4K HDR video, zippy performance, a remote that controls your TV’s power and volume, and easy …
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T-Mobile’s newly rebranded prepaid service, Metro, is jumping on the 5G bandwagon too. The service, rebranded from MetroPCS, launched with new plans on Monday. But the company also said at an event at Grand Central Terminal in New York that it’s committing to offering 5G for Metro next year. “When we talk about 5G for all, it’s not just nationwide …
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UFC fighters Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov are ready to face off in the ring for the first time, and the backstory is rather tense. McGregor was arrested in April for attacking a bus containing UFC fighters in Brooklyn while looking for Nurmagomedov, and the foes faced each other for the first time since then in a much-anticipated prefight press conference …
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First things first: Yesterday’s free-logo deal? Back in business. Apologies to those of you who went through the process of creating a logo and then discovered the code didn’t work. It does now. (And, for the record, it did initially, because I tested it!) Today I’ve got one of the weirder — and better — bundles I can recall. For …
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IMDb, the Amazon-owned database of the entertainment world, will reportedly announce a free, ad-supported video service for Amazon Fire TV users this week. The service will feature TV shows and movies and be available to all Fire TV users (not just those with Amazon Prime Video), according to CNBC. The report follows similar rumors from August. The announcement will come this …
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It turns out watching Netflix all day is making a dent in our collective internet usage. A report by Sandvine, posted late September, has found that 15 percent of all internet bandwidth worldwide is consumed by people watching Netflix. According to Sandvine, that makes Netflix the No. 1 downstream application worldwide. The full report from Sandvine arrived on Oct. 2 …
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