If you pay for Amazon Prime membership on a monthly basis, get ready to pay a little more. The online retailer on Friday said it raised the monthly fee for Prime to $12.99 from $10.99, up 18 percent and effective immediately. The monthly student rate increased to $6.49 from $5.49. Customers using the monthly option …
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Recently I took up yoga. I like it, but don’t always have time to get to a class. Plus, much as I recognize the value of a good instructor, classes get expensive. Thankfully, as an Amazon Prime subscriber, I can access a surprisingly large library of yoga videos — effectively letting me take free classes via TV, phone or tablet. …
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Maybe it’s too much effort to grab the remote and click over to HBO and scroll through what’s on. So Amazon wants to help. Owners of Fire TV streaming devices can discover live programming on a new row called On Now that displays on their home page. The feature, however, is limited to a handful of subscription channels: HBO, Showtime, Starz and Cinemax. And …
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Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray has been around for over two years now and, as is customary with maturing technologies, the size of the devices drops alongside the price. Sony has long been the master of miniaturization, and it’s applied its shrink-ray technology to the UBP-X700, its latest 4K Blu-ray player. The X700’s biggest claim to fame? It now supports Dolby …
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For months, powerful companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have been working to shrink online video sizes. But their work just got more important, because Apple has now joined the partnership too. The Alliance for Open Media is working on technology called AV1 that compresses video before it’s stored or sent over the network. That technology is crucial to …
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Did Santa leave something Prime in your stocking? If you’re new to Amazon’s subscription service, you may think the only benefits are two-day shipping and streaming video — both of which are awesome, no question. But Amazon Prime affords you a lot of other perks as well. Let’s take a look at seven of the best (and, in some cases, …
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The holidays are over, and it’s time to load up your new device with digital content. Enter Amazon. To celebrate its second annual “Digital Day,” the retailer will offer discounts on thousands of products including movies, apps, e-books and TV shows. Like with Amazon’s Prime Day, there is much dreck — but also gems hidden among the rough. The deals kicked …
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Even for streaming video, it’s true what they say: You can’t always get what you want. The top complaint consumers have about streaming-video services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu is lack of content, according to a survey by IBM Cloud Video, which powers streaming for online video providers. Nearly half of those users say video-streaming services rarely or …
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Merry Christmas? Perhaps not for Amazon UK. The online shopping giant could be the subject of an investigation by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the Guardian reported Sunday. The ASA said it received five complaints pertaining to late deliveries by Amazon Prime as Christmas approaches. Prime is a membership service by Amazon that, in the UK, promises subscribers “unlimited one-day …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A change of heart? Michael Kovac Recently, former Facebook execs have been beating their breasts in sorrow and supplication at what their former employer has done to humanity. First, it was former president Sean Parker, who said he worried what Facebook was doing to kids’ …
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