Daily Crunch: Believe
Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories:
Japan Gets 8 New Cell Phones: KDDI’s Entire Winter Line-Up
Amazon, Fox Streaming Deal Brings 11k Movies And TV Shows To Prime Instant Video
Bose Announces Two Soundbar Systems
Handheld Console Compresses Super Mario Brothers Down To 64 Pixels
TC Gadgets Webcast Episode 3: Phones, TVs, and Muscles
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On Wednesday, Amazon Will Unveil The “Kindle Fire”
Last Friday, Amazon sent out invites to a press conference being held this coming Wednesday. They didn’t give away any details in the invite, but given our scoop earlier this month, everyone assumed it was to unveil the new Kindle tablet. We can now confirm this is correct. And we know a bit more.
On Wednesday [...]
PSA: Netflix Price Hike Rolls Out Today
Netflix adjusted its pricing back in July. The new two-plan system started immediately for new subscribers with current subs having until today, September 1st, to opt out of the higher-priced plans before they’re charged 60% more.
The good news, in case you forgot like, is that as Hacking Netflix points out, it really doesn’t hit current [...]
Crackle streaming video app returns to the Android Market
If anyone happens to remember October of last year, a new streaming video app appeared in the Android Market called Crackle. It was a subscription based service which offered some video for free but the premium videos were to cost you $4.99/month. It ended up being there for quite some time and then it all [...]
Sony to release Crackle iOS App, free access to tons of TV shows and movies
iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners will soon have access to Sony’s growing library of free movies and TV shows on Crackle.com. We just saw the news when browsing to the service on our iPad.
Crackle is a growing collection of Sony’s library of TV shows and movies including some recent hits and well as B-listers. [...]
Apple Launch Revamped MobileMe Service In April
iLounge reports that Apple is planning to launch the revamped MobileMe services next month. We’ve already heard several rumors and speculations that Apple will launch a cloud-based service, which will allow users to upload their music, TV shows and movies to Apple’s servers so that they can access them from various devices.
Samsung Launches 3D VOD In Korea, US And Europe Next
Today in Korea, Samsung’s 3D streaming service we heard about last month got the go ahead for primetime. The 3D on-demand service will stream 3D music videos, TV shows and movie trailers to Samsung 3DTVs through Samsung’s Smart TV app platform. Unfortunately for you 3D lovers in the US, it’s only supported in Korea at the moment, but the [...]
Amazon Launch Streaming Service For Prime Subscribers
The service will offer free, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows to Amazon Prime members. Amazon Prime is $79-a-year (and free for anyone with a .edu email) and offers users free 2-day shipping on all items, and discounts on even faster shipping options. At that price, Prime (before any other benefits) is still cheaper [...]
Apple updates Remote.app to 2.1, adds AirPlay, Internet Radio
Pretty much everything on any Apple product is playable on any other Apple product now…I think…
What’s New in Remote.app Version 2.1?
• AirPlay video support to control iTunes on your computer to stream videos to an Apple TV
• Internet radio control to play thousands of internet radio streams in iTunes on your computer
• The ability to [...]
Apple TV 1 Million Sales This Week
Apple reports today that sales of its new Apple TV will hit the one million mark later this week. The sales figures are remarkable for a device that was just released in early October. Reviews were generally positive often noting the sleek simplicity of the tiny, $99 device but some critics complained that not enough [...]