Sprint launched a new unlimited plan Friday called Unlimited Premium that includes Amazon Prime, Hulu, TIDAL, Lookout Premium Plus and a 50GB LTE mobile hotspot. It costs $90 a month. For a limited time, the plan also gives customers $20 per month in Uber rides. “We’ve heard from customers who literally ‘want it all,’ so we …
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Have you noticed some regular household items you want to buy on Walmart.com are out of stock? There may be a good reason for that. Walmart changed its e-commerce systems to avoid orders deemed too expensive to ship and started telling customers those items are “out of stock,” according to The Wall Street Journal. If the item is stored in …
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YouTube Premium is YouTube’s very own (and admittedly confusing) subscription service. It removes ads from YouTube videos, gives you access to YouTube Originals, lets you listen to YouTube Music ad-free and includes a Google Play Music subscription. At just $11.99 per month, it’s not a bad deal, considering you’re getting access to two music streaming services, YouTube Originals and removing …
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Twitch is letting the ads flood in, even if you paid to keep them out. Twitch Prime, a service the streaming video site offers in partnership with its parent company Amazon, will no longer be ad-free for new members starting Sept. 14. Current monthly subscribers will get ad-free viewing until Oct. 15. This comes as Twitch — which lets gamers record …
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Roll out the welcome wagon; Samsung’s big flagship phone of the year is here. The company unveiled the Galaxy Note 9 at an event in New York on Thursday, and it’s a pricey one. The Galaxy Note 9 officially goes on sale Aug. 24 but will be available for preorder from Aug. 9. If you want to buy the phone …
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A quick update regarding yesterday’s 6-deal roundup: The Tacklife rotary tool had promo-code problems (and limited inventory), but the vendor has promised to repeat the deal soon. If you missed out, stay tuned! Surface Go? I say Surface no. I don’t get Microsoft’s new tablet at all. It’s under-powered, too small to be of practical use and still sold without …
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Are you ready for some football? If you are reading this, then I can only assume your answer is, “Yes, I am once again ready to surrender my Sundays to the NFL, to say nothing of my Monday and Thursday nights.” Games are broadcast on CBS and Fox on Sunday afternoons, NBC on Sunday nights and ESPN on Monday nights. …
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Amazon on Tuesday introduced grocery pickup through Prime Now at two Whole Foods stores. The grocer’s Sacramento and Virginia Beach locations will be the first Whole Foods to get the new pickup service. The stores will fill online orders in as little as 30 minutes and deliver right to customers cars. More stores will get the service throughout this year. …
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Ready or not, here it comes. Blade’s Shadow desktop-in-the-cloud (but really focused on gaming) service that lets you play on any device makes its east coast debut next week, to be followed by a full rollout across the US in October. The company says it’s fixed a lot of problems that cropped up in its rocky California-only phase. Notably, it …
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Amazon is getting some prime real estate on Comcast’s X1 service. On Thursday, Amazon and Comcast said that they’ll incorporate Amazon’s streaming video service onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service, used by about 62 percent of its customers. The new partnership means Amazon’s library of streaming video will be available and searchable on Comcast X1, like a regular …
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