Amazon has been promoting its new Echo device on the Amazon site. Visitors are treated to a multi-minute video of a happy family, bearded, post-hipster Dad and all, receiving the Echo and discovering all of the ways the new piece of tech can enhance their lives. Thankfully, no fights break out toward the end of… Read More: Amazon Echo Puts Hands-Free Internet In Reach »
As if social networking, media-on-demand, personal accounting, job-search, taxi and a hundred gazillion other portable device apps wasn’t enough, you can now control your lighting at home from wherever you are in the world with Philips’ network-connected, super-efficient LED ‘Hue’ light bulbs with your iPhone or iPad, now available through Apple’s store. The bulb is… Read More: Go Into The Light »
Dish Network, the parent company of Blockbuster, announced today that all 300 company-owned retail locations will close throughout the United States due to consumer preference for streaming media services. The DVD distribution-by-mail service offered by the once-ubiquitous video rental chain will also be discontinued by January, 2014. All physical distribution centers will also be closed.… Read More: Blockbuster Set To Close Remaining U.S. Stores »
On October 28, CBS Corporation and Netflix announce that Netflix snared the rights to start streaming Dexter, a Showtime production. Dexter On Netflix Is A Binge Watcher’s Dream Dexter, a binge-watcher’s dream, is set to be available to Netflix subscribers on a streaming basis starting on October 31, which is also Halloween. The series ended… Read More: Dexter Rises On Netflix »
Apple has been kind to the world before. iTunes was and is free to download and use. Of course, Apple reaps the benefit of a direct tie-in to their iTunes store and both elements have revolutionised how music is collected and heard. Now, Mavericks, Apple’s OS X upgrade, is free to users of Apple laptops… Read More: Mavericks Hits Your Mac For Free »
With Microsoft launching revamped versions of their slate computer next month on the form of the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro, the latest question to arise in the tablet rumour mill is where Apple stands on the matter of hybrid tablet/slate computing. As it stands now, there are a number of after-market enhancements available… Read More: Can Apple Be Bested? The Quest For The Hybrid Tablet »
Amazon’s tablets have been a boon to budget-conscious consumers. Their tablets have boasted impressive specs from the introduction of the first Kindle Fire, at the time a tablet with less of the Apple iPad’s cachet, but with most of its functionality, for a fraction of the cost. Last year’s Fire HD updates brought improved speeds… Read More: The Golden Era Of Tablets Continues: Amazon Debuts New Fire… »
Although the buzz around Apple this week has been focused on the introduction of the new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, the company does make other hardware and updates their lines on a regular basis. The stylish turnkey iMac systems has an upgrade announced by Apple today and it seems that Apple is definitely committed… Read More: Apple Updates The iMac »
Sony today launched the Video Unlimited 4K service, the world’s first and only 4K Ultra HD video download service, with access to an expanding library of native 4K Ultra HD feature films and TV shows. Beginning with a selection of more than 70 full length native 4K Ultra HD feature films and TV shows from… Read More: Sony Announces New 4K TVs For Under $4K »