Judging from the fact that most people don’t even know that Redbox and Verizon tried to release their own Netflix-killer back in 2013, known as Redbox Instant, I think it’s safe to say that it was a failure. Redbox isn’t giving up, however, and even though Redbox Instant&
Amazon’s most-recent venture is actually a step backwards in terms of advancement, as it takes the company into a market that’s widely considered to be dying off: ad-supported television shows. Not only is Amazon supporting its new show, Fashion Fund, with advertisements instead of
If the FCC has its way, cable subscribers in the United States will be able to lower their cable bills by choosing their own set-top boxes instead of the ones that their cable provider gives them. As it stands now, most subscribers rent their set-top boxes from their provider, and there have been nu
It’s embarrassing how much food we throw out every day, and even though some of us may feel guilty when we think about it, that’s still not enough to motivate us to change our habits, but there may be a simple solution. An Israeli startup by the name of HomeBiogas has developed a system
Slowly but surely, cable companies are starting to understand that online streaming is the future of home entertainment, and rather than trying to fight the cord-cutting craze, more and more of them are cashing in on it. Charter has become the latest such company to do so with a new service called S
With things like Google Cardboard allowing people to build their own makeshift virtual reality headsets and companies like HTC and Oculus preparing to release their own high-end headsets, the virtual reality market is really starting to pick up steam. Netflix recently announced that it has its own v
As nice as it would be to have a 4K television, they tend to be prohibitively expensive, especially the “smart” ones that companies like Sony and Xiaomi like to release. This is where Samsung thinks it can be of assistance, as the company has just added a new model to this year’s 4
Individual commercials can be funny from time to time bu the vast majority of the ads that were bombarded with regularly are annoying and almost always get ignored or disregarded. Most of us just spend the couple of minutes during commercial breaks doing something else like checking our phones or wh
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has claimed that record labels take in the biggest chunk of the revenue from music streaming services ever since Taylor Swift departed from the service because she thought it didn’t pay the people who made her music enough money. Now there’s a study that backs Ek
T-Mobile isn’t taking a breather. A day after quadrupling the amount of data customers can get on its Simple Starter plan, T-Mobile is at it again, expanding its Simple Choice family plan to 10 lines and offering to double the amount of dataat your disposal if you add a tablet. The moves repre
Sony has been testing its PlayStation Now cloud streaming game service for months, with a select group of players testing it out on the PS3 and PS4. On Monday, that group will expand to include owners of some of Sony’s 2014 TVs, including all 4K Ultra HD sets and some of the 1080p models. As [
HarperCollins continues its support for subscription e-book services in a deal with Epic!, a children’s subscription service, adding 1,000 backlist kids’ e-book titles to the company’s library. Epic! offers access to a library of more than 4,000 kids’ e-books for $9.99 a month. HarperCol