T-Mobile is getting into the the television business with the acquisition of Layer3 TV, a TV tech company. The new service will launch next year, according to T-Mobile CEO John Legere. The wireless carrier is billing the service as a breakthrough for people who “love their TV, but … hate their TV providers.” The service …
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It took a little more than a year for AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming video service to reach its first million. The Dallas telecommunications provider said Tuesday that more than 1 million consumers have subscribed to its service, which offers a mix of live television channels and on-demand content over the internet to your phone, tablet or TV box like a …
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Now playing: Watch this: T-Mobile’s latest perk: free Netflix 1:06 T-Mobile and Netflix are new BFFs. The primary beneficiaries of this new friendship will be subscribers to T-Mobile’s “One” unlimited data plans, many of whom will get access to Netflix for free, T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced Wednesday via spray paint on an “Un-carrier Next” webcast video. But the freebie only works if you …
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How do you express your love for a game? Name your child after it, of course. A baby girl in the Shaanxi province of China has been named Wang Zhe Rong Yao, or Honour of Kings, after the much-loved Chinese video game, reported local publication The Paper. The game has garnered so much popularity in China that its developers, Tencent, …
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Netflix is bringing some excellent films to its catalog in September. Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” and Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York” all hit Netflix on the first day of September. On the originals front, “Narcos” returns for its third season. “Fuller House” also returns thanks to the nostalgia train that will never stop. There are a …
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The fall season sees the return to Hulu of lots of popular shows like “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “The Mindy Project” and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.” Fox’s reality-cooking show “Hell’s Kitchen” also returns for its 17th edition. Spoiler: Some chefs will be hopelessly outclassed and Gordon Ramsay will yell at whatever he perceives as incompetence. Some older shows are coming …
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And somehow, we’re at the seventh month of the year. You could consider how quickly time passes OR you could just find new stuff to watch. Netflix is bringing a little-known movie online. It’s called “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” You might have missed it when it arrived in theaters because it was a tiny movie. However, you can …
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The first of June sees a huge amount of movies hitting Hulu’s streaming catalog. Let’s highlight just some of them (well, because there’s a full list below — so why highlight all of them?). Way back in 1983, Michael Keaton starred in “Mr. Mom.” A lot of the jokes are pretty dated by today’s standards. However, it does have some …
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