On Monday, we’ll finally find out where Apple’s billion dollars have gone. That’s the amount the company earmarked for a video streaming service that it hasn’t yet confirmed is coming. For years, rumors of Apple diving into a market dominated by YouTube, Netflix and other streaming companies floated around. It’s even talked up the shows …
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Spotify is sweetening the streaming deal. The music streaming service is currently running separate offers for US and UK subscribers. In the US, Spotify Premium now includes Hulu. And students in the US get both Hulu and Showtime with Spotify for no extra charge. In the UK, when you sign up for the Family plan, you get a free Google …
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Need a place to work? How about a place to sit while you do that work? Let’s talk furniture. Just by random chance, a desk deal and office-chair deal crossed my radar this morning, so it seemed logical to mash ’em up. I’ll start with the former. For a limited time, and while supplies last, AGDirect (via Amazon) has the …
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Roku, the set-top streaming box maker, is breaking out of the living room for the first time with a service that offers paid premium channels like Showtime and Starz that you can also watch on your phone. On Wednesday, Roku unveiled Premium Subscriptions, which will launch late this month in a phased rollout. The idea is similar to Amazon Prime Video …
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If you use internet service from Charter’s Spectrum, a refund may be headed your way. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced on Tuesday a $174.2 million consumer fraud settlement with Charter, the state’s largest internet service provider, for allegedly failing to deliver the internet speed it promised customers. “This settlement should serve as a wake-up call to any company …
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Comcast is opening its gates to Amazon Prime Video, the cable giant’s latest integration with a tech rival that has some of the most directly competitive content yet. The two companies said Wednesday that Comcast would be rolling out Amazon Prime onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service used by nearly two-thirds of its residential cable-TV customers, over the …
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Spotify is bulking up its offerings for college students in the US. The music streaming service is adding a subscription to Showtime to its Spotify Premium for Students plan, which already includes ad-free music and Hulu (the limited-commercials version) for $4.99 per month, the company said Wednesday. (Editors’ note: Showtime is a part of CBS, which also owns CNET.) “Never before have …
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Editors’ note: 3:25 p.m. PT: MoviePass appears to be experiencing another outage, with the app reporting that there are “no more screenings at this theater” for cinemas that would use the MoviePass credit card to finish the transaction. Theaters that support E-Ticketing appear to be working. Possibly intensifying the issue is a Business Insider report claiming that MoviePass CEO Mitch …
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MoviePass’ promise of a movie every day for $9.95 a month is about to change. MoviePass just announced that it’s rolling out its peak pricing starting today. The new policy will charge you extra if you plan on seeing a popular movie during a sought-after time slot. In the example given, MoviePass shows how it could charge $3.43 to see …
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Facebook promised to make VR a lot more social back in May when the $199 Oculus Go debuted, announcing a handful of new apps to bring people together while goggled in. Oculus Venues, a live event viewing platform that mixes large crowds of virtual avatars and streaming video, was the first. Oculus TV is the second, and it’s now available …
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