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After it announced in January this year the UK release of streaming media players, Roku has now started shipping these boxes towards its customers, complete with support for a new BBC iPlayer video channel.
iPlayer can be considered the UK equivalent of Netflix and allows its customers to catch up on recent BBC ... |
10 February 2012
09:14 GMT |
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A new flavor of the popular Netflix for Android mobile application is now available for download from the Android Market, with support for more devices than before.
Currently available for download as version 1.7.0, Netflix for Android now provides users with better audio/video syncing for tablets and phones.
Mor... |
10 February 2012
01:51 GMT |
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Netflix, the company that is best known for video streaming and for mail-powered disc movie rentals, has stated that it no longer plans to offer video games via its mail service and is, presumably, no longer interested in offering streaming for video game content. Reed Hastings, the chief executive officer at Netfli... |
26 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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About a week ago, Verizon Wireless made available for purchase a new Android-powered smartphone on its LTE network, the LG Spectrum.
Released as the successor of last year’s LG Revolution, the new mobile phone is now available for only $79.99 with the signing of a two-year contract agreement.
Verizon launc... |
26 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that its new PlayStation Vita handheld console will support the Netflix online streaming service, allowing owners to check out its huge amount of movies and TV shows.
Netflix has become a main selling point for home consoles like the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii, even reaching the more ... |
11 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is now available in the UK and Ireland, as promised last year. Users in the two countries will be able to start streaming TV shows and movies from the site or on a large number of devices.
The company announced a few months ago that it would expand to its first European markets in early... |
9 January 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Netflix hasn't had the best of years. A stockholder darling for the first half of the year, when its share price rose to record heights, it stumbled in the second half of the year, partially because of the price hike, partially because of its fumbled plans to split up the company.But Netflix is here to remind us... |
4 January 2012
11:34 GMT |
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Customer satisfaction is fickle thing, one year you've got it the other you don't. But rising prices, making life harder for your customers and generally acting confused are guaranteed to get their attention and not in a good way.Netflix learned that the hard way, as a new consumer satisfaction report shows... |
29 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Netflix and the BBC have announced that they've reached a deal to make a number of BBC titles available in the UK and Ireland when the Netflix streaming service launches early next year. A number of older series will be available at launch with more titles coming in later.
Netflix already has a deal with BBC Wo... |
20 December 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Another application has just been upgraded in the Android Market to offer support for the just launched Galaxy Nexus smartphone on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless, namely Netflix.
The latest flavor of the mobile software, version 1.6.0, is now available for download via the Android Market with support for Android 4... |
16 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Netflix, the service that allows you to instantly watch TV shows & movies, has been updated on the iOS platform with the release of a new application that supports all devices and all territories.Netflix 2.0 is now available in Latin America for iPhone and iPad, and features a new iPad UI for all regions - US, Canada... |
15 December 2011
08:00 GMT |
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There was a time when open source technology was the poor man's solution. It enabled startups to get going, but real companies paid for their software. That time has long gone. The generation of companies built on open source technology changed the mindset. Now only the companies stuck in the past are not using... |
25 November 2011
09:26 GMT |
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Netflix has just announced that it struck a deal to finance and then stream a limited series of episodes of the beloved Arrested Development, which Fox canceled due to low ratings a few years back.But the series had a very loyal following and has enjoyed huge success even after it got canceled, on sites such as Netfl... |
19 November 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Apple has released a fresh firmware for owners of a second-generation Apple TV, adding support for Netflix in Mexico. The patch also “addresses an issue in which audio may not play through the optical port when the TV is turned off”, according to the release notes.At the time of this writing, Apple was ye... |
18 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Those of you waiting impatiently for Roku to make it outside of the US boarders have now a reason to rejoice as the company has just announced its plans to expand operations in Canada and the UK in early 2012.Roku is right now negotiating with its partners to see which streaming services will follow it in these new r... |
17 November 2011
22:11 GMT |
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After announcing a fully redesigned experience for tablet owners, Netflix confirmed in a blog post that all the latest enhancements are coming to Apple’s iOS platform - specifically, the iPad.Netflix yesterday announced “a fully redesigned experience for our free app on all Android tablets including the K... |
16 November 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Owners of tablet PCs running under Google's Android operating system who are accessing the Netflix service from their devices now have a new flavor of the Netflix mobile client available for download.
The new app flavor comes along with a series of UI changes that should result in the availability of an enhan... |
15 November 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Netflix is coming to the UK early next year, the company has previously confirmed the rumors. Now it's announcing that there will even be things to watch via the service as it boasts about a licensing deal with Lionsgate UK giving it access to a large library of movies, both new and old."[Netflix and Lionsgate] ... |
14 November 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Nextflix has just announced a new version of its Android application is now available for download in the Android Market.The latest 1.5.2 version of Netflix brings support for Android 3.x devices, but also for alternate audio and subtitles.In addition, the developers fixed an incompatibility with CyanogenMod 7 ROM de... |
9 November 2011
21:01 GMT |
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Even though the Transformer Prime is expected to arrive in just a couple of days from now, Asus hasn't forgot about its older tablet models and it has prepared a new firmware update for the original Eee Pad Transformer.The update is known as version 8.6.5.18, according to Phandroid, and it brings a series of fea... |
7 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Netflix continues to be the top traffic generating service online in the US, accounting for 32.69 percent of all downstream traffic, according to a new report from Sandvine.Regular HTTP traffic comes in at a respectable number two with 17.48 percent of peak downstream traffic.YouTube is responsible for quite a large ... |
27 October 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Netflix has revealed the extent of the damage from its price hike, announced last summer but which came into effect last month, it lost 800,000 subscribers in Q3 2011, after gaining 1.8 million in the previous quarter.It ended up with 23.8 million subscribers in the US at the end of the quarter, down from 24.6 millio... |
25 October 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012. This comes after plenty of rumors and speculation about a European assault by Netflix. The company hasn't confirmed other launches, but they are coming soon as well.The company has now announced that its first two European markets wi... |
24 October 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Netflix, the already highly popular video and movie streaming service that arrived on Android handsets several months ago, is now available for tablet PCs that are based on the Android 3.x Honeycomb operating system.
In addition to expanding support for more devices than before, Netflix was also keen on making it... |
20 October 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Roku wants to arrive in the homes of us all and its latest weapon is the just announced Roku LT, which doesn't rely only on its purple good looks to achieve this, but also on the $50 (€34) price tag.So how does Roku managed to achieve this price tag? The answer is simple. It have up on almost all the extra ... |
11 October 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Just like that, Qwikster, the much-unloved Netflix spin-off, is gone without really "being" here in the first place. Three weeks ago, Netflix announced plans to split the company with the DVD-rental business becoming Qwikster, a fully-owned, but separate company.
The idea was that the split, which involved people ... |
10 October 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Netflix is navigating some troubled waters, with the decision to split its DVD rental business from the streaming business and the previous price hike that came from creating two separate companies.
With stock prices tanking and subscribers angry, Netflix was in need for some good news and it got it.
The compan... |
26 September 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Facebook's rumored and anticipated music platform was indeed unveiled at its F8 developers' conference, but it was part of a much broader project, the expansion of the Open Graph set of APIs, which will enable developers to build all sorts of apps that interact with Facebook and which rely on social data an... |
23 September 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it will be making a number of changes to its services in the coming months, including adding video game rentals to its new by mail Qwickster service.The concept behind all the Netflix changes is creating a clear separation between the online streaming features and the physical, by mail, ren... |
20 September 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has published an apology for the way his company handled a price change (hike) this summer. He's not sorry for the price increase, in fact there are more news on that front, but he is sorry that the company and him personally failed to communicate better with the customers.Along with th... |
19 September 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Netflix, the TV and movie online streaming service, has started rolling out in Latin America. The company announced that it will be covering all of Latin America in one fell swoop and, now, the service will be available in 43 countries in the region by September 12.It will be going live in some countries starting tod... |
5 September 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Netflix has been riding a very precarious wave so far. Boosted by small prices, big catalog and simple service, it's been adding subscribers at a rapid pace. But its success is beginning to upset movie studios, TV networks and everyone else that licenses its content to the streaming service.
On the one hand, ... |
2 September 2011
08:05 GMT |
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All LG Revolution smartphones purchased at Verizon Wireless until the end of this week bring along three months of free Netflix service.
As part of a promotion that started two weeks ago, all LG Revolution buyers will be able to enjoy free access to the video streaming service straight from their mobile phones. ... |
22 August 2011
07:41 GMT |
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GameFly has announced that it will be launching a new digital delivery system for video games this holiday season which will allow those who subscribe to get titles for unlimited play as long as they pay a monthly fee.Those who are at the moment subscribing to the GameFly game discs-by-mail service will be also given... |
10 August 2011
10:44 GMT |
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HBO, the best known premium cable network, has announced that its Go service, which offers online video-on-demand, will soon be launched on both home gaming consoles and on television sets that are able to access the Internet on their own.
The initial report has not mentioned the consoles that will get access to H... |
4 August 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The PC gaming space has recently seen a big increase in the number of video games, especially those who are heavily oriented towards multiplayer, that are ditching subscriptions and adopting a free-to-play model with the potential for microtransactions.
But at least one major executive believes that the same model... |
2 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has been very vocal about promoting its newly launched digital distribution service, Origin, and now the leader of the company says that it plans for it to be like a cross between HBO and Netflix in the future.Speaking during a conference call with investors, John Riccitiello, who... |
28 July 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst with the research firm Wedbush Morgan, has issued a new note to investors highlighting the long-term prospects of Nintendo and its biggest platform, the Wii home console, the 3DS handheld and the upcoming Wii U.
The analyst says that Nintendo will not manage to meet its own sales... |
25 July 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Netflix, the video streaming service, might soon become available on more smartphones powered by Android, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.
A new version of the Netflix application for Android is getting ready to emerge in the Android Market, and it should add support for a wide range of new devi... |
20 July 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Netflix is clearly expanding beyond its home market. It has said that much itself, when it revealed that it might launch in 43 new countries, in Latin America, concomitantly. But Netflix isn't stopping here, there are new rumors indicating that it's hitting European shores in early 2012, in Spain and the UK... |
16 July 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced that a special Netflix application is going to appear today on the 3DS eShop online service, which allows subscribers of the service to watch regular movies as well as a selection of 3D-ready videos on the portable device.
Nintendo launched the console in Spring, alongside a few games and se... |
14 July 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Netflix is full of surprises these days, but the latest isn't sitting well with its customers. The company is splitting the DVD-by-mail rental and online streaming options, essentially hiking the price by 60 percent for those that want both.
"We are launching new DVD only plans. These plans offer our lowest p... |
13 July 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Netflix, which has only made a shy move outside of its native US to Canada last year, has recently announced a massive expansion across the two Americas, 43 new countries in total.But this is clearly just the beginning, the first more concrete evidence that Netflix is eyeing Europe next has surfaced, with the latest ... |
12 July 2011
11:52 GMT |
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Netflix, the popular movie and TV show streaming service, has announced a bold international expansion, across the American continent. At a later, unspecified date, users in South America, Central America and the Caribbean will be able to subscribe to Netflix. In total, 43 new countries will be included in the Netfli... |
5 July 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Facebook has announced a somewhat surprising addition to its board of directors, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings will join to become the sixth member of the board. While the reason behind the move is left to speculation, adding Hastings has some advantages and he may be a good fit for the Facebook board and for... |
24 June 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Owners of mobile phones running under Google's Android operating system can now enjoy an updated Netflix application available for download through the Android Market. The mobile application was released only a few weeks ago with support for a handful of mobile phones running under the Android OS, and is now av... |
27 May 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Netflix, the popular video streaming service, was already launched on Google's Android devices, though with support for only a small number of devices, which made a lot of users unhappy. Of course, Netflix did promise that the mobile application and the service associated with it would soon offer support for mo... |
25 May 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Roughly two weeks ago, netflix announced the availability of its mobile application for a series of mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system, with some high-end devices out there left out of the equation. HTC ThundrBolt is one of them, with users still waiting for it to receive the Netflix app... |
23 May 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Netflix has now become the single biggest source of traffic in North America, at least if you choose to display the data from a specific point of view. Netflix is the biggest downstream traffic source during peak hours, making up 29.7 of it in North America.This would seem like a win over peer-to-peer traffic, which ... |
18 May 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Those who enjoy streaming TV shows and movies to their iOS device now have one more reason to download the Netflix app, according to the developers who’ve lately added subtitles support in version 1.3, now available from the App Store.
The Netflix app can be freely downloaded and installed on the iPad, iPhon... |
13 May 2011
05:00 GMT |
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