10 Excellent Mother's Day Gadget Gifts For Under $200
Mother's Day is approaching fast. It's this Sunday, May 13. Don't have an idea for a gift? Check out these tech items all priced under $200 to enhance Mom's life and make her day special.A Birchbox...
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View ArticleNetflix Is No Longer Reviled By Everyone! (NFLX)
Netflix may finally be recovering from the sales hike that caused millions of customers to quit last summer. The movie rental service rebounded in customer satisfaction after reaching an all-time low...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Check Out Netflix's Major Web Player Update (NFLX)
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View ArticleHulu Tries Again At Making Its Own Shows
Hulu is adding 10 more TV shows to its lineup this summer, including three new series, in an effort to beef up its original programming and be more competitive against Netflix. The three original...
View ArticleVerizon Unveiled An App That Will Let You Watch Netflix, Comcast and Hulu...
If you get frustrated trying to navigate between Netflix and Hulu for one video on your smartphone, there's an app for that. Enter Viewdini. Verizon partnered up with Comcast cable to launch Viewdini,...
View ArticleNetflix Should Copy Spotify and Bring Us a World of Apps
I’m starting to think that Spotify has the best model for content distribution on the Web. It’s so good, in fact, the Netflix should just adopt every play in the Spotify book. Preferably now. I have...
View ArticleForget The CDN Players, Netflix Is Caching Its Own Video
Netflix is rolling its own content delivery network (CDN) and inviting ISPs to either connect directly to its vast library of video streaming content at global peering sites or cache its content...
View ArticleHere's What Happened When This Guy Tried To Watch 400 Hours Of Netflix Films...
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View ArticleWhy Netflix’s CDN Should Scare The Storage Industry
Lest storage vendors thought they were immune to disruption that open source hardware is having on the server industry, Netflix’s new Open Connect content-delivery network might make them think again....
View ArticleWhy Is There No Netflix For Porn?
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View ArticleShould Netflix Buy Spotify?
Netflix and Spotify are a bit like two peas in a pod: Both are championing all-you-can-eat subscription packages over transactional models for online media. Both are trying to establish themselves as...
View ArticleNow We Know What Happened To The Guy Who Watched 400 Hours Of Netflix In 30 Days
When we last chatted with New York City comedian Mark Malkoff, he was just a few weeks off a 30-day Netflix instant video binge. It was the latest in a stream of part-challenge-part-stunts Malkoff has...
View ArticleLouis C.K. Is Taking A Huge Gamble To Give Fans Affordable Tickets To His Tour
Louis C.K. is once again proving he's in his fans' corner when it comes to ticket sales. Rather than using a traditional ticketing agency like TicketMaster, the comedian is peddling tickets to his...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Why Everyone's Cutting The Cable Cord
For kids of the 80s and 90s, waking up on Saturday morning to catch our favorite cartoons was one of the finer things in life. That's not so true for kids today, at least as far as cable goes. A new...
View ArticleChina's Launching Its Own Netflix-like Service
China's getting it's own Netflix-like movie service. The country's government-run China Movie Channel is launching a subscription-based online service similar to Netflix later this year, according to...
View ArticleTom Cruise Has A Somber 50th Birthday In LA As Katie Holmes Smiles With Suri...
As Tom Cruise celebrated his 50th birthday somberly with his two teenage children, Connor and Bella, at his Beverly Hills mansion, Katie Holmes was spotted on a smiley ice cream date in New York City...
View ArticleSee The Facebook Status Update That May Signal The Death Of TV
In the long, drawn-out history of the death of television—and its replacement by various on-demand web and video services—this Facebook post by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may be remembered as the...
View ArticleNetflix Can't Keep Your Personal Info Forever Under Privacy Settlement
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to Netflix Inc's $9 million settlement of class-action litigation accusing the video rental company of violating consumer privacy laws. U.S. District...
View ArticleNetflix's Lost Year: The Inside Story Of The Price-Hike Train Wreck
In the spring of 2011, Hastings, Netflix's widely admired chief executive, held a meeting with his management team and outlined his blueprint to jettison Netflix's DVD operations. Netflix managers...
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