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AT&T Successfully Made a 5G Phone Call From Space
AT&T phone home? Well, sort of. AST SpaceMobile, the cellular satellite company backed by the mobile carrier, placed a satellite call over 5G. It’s the “first ever” 5G connection between an unmodified smartphone and a space satellite. On September 8, AST SpaceMobile used a Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone in a wireless dead zone in Maui,…
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Pluto TV, Tubi, & The Roku Channel Combined Are The 4th Most Popular Streaming Service
The growth of free ad-supported streaming services is continuing. As Americans look for ways to cut back, they are increasingly turning to free streaming services like Pluto TV, Tubi, and The Roku Channel. According to the report from Nielsen, Tubi had 1.3 percent of all streaming traffic, The Roku Channel had 1.1 percent, and Pluto…
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Get Half Off a Year of Paramount+ Hurry This Offer Ends Tomorrow
With the summer soon coming to an end, autumn is right around the corner, which means it’s football season and there’s no better way to watch live games than with Paramount+. To kick off the upcoming NFL and college football season, Paramount+ is offering a 50 percent discount on the annual subscription plans. Don’t wait…
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Bally Sports Needs To Pay About $560 Million Or Lose 14 NBA Teams TV Rights
Bally Sports’ parent company, Diamond Sports Group, is in a tough fight for survival. The company, stuck in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, needs to strike some major deals and create a go-forward plan by court-ordered deadlines. Now it needs to make payments to 14 NBA teams or risk losing TV rights to these teams.…
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DAZN Ups Security Tech To Stop IPTV Services
DAZN is bolstering its anti-piracy defenses. The sports streaming service is teaming up with cybersecurity company, Irdeto, to use its forensic watermarking solution, Tracemark. The tool will help DAZN track security weaknesses in distribution channels and identify and disrupt individual pirate sessions and unauthorized streams, according to Irdeto. Piracy has become significantly easier in the…
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Deal Alert! Anker’s 100W USB-C Charger is On Sale For Just $42.99 Lowest Price Ever
Did you miss out on Anker’s huge 100W USB-C wall charger sale? Good news! Right now, Anker has once again dropped the price of its USB-C, and USB 100W wall charger to just $44299, down from $74.99. This is even lower than what Anker had it at on Prime Day 2023. Right now, Anker has…
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Vizio TVs Now Home to Disney Bundle and ESPN App
Vizio smart televisions are the latest place to find both the Disney Bundle, which includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, as well as the ESPN App. The apps are now available on Vizio’s own smart TV interface, so customers don’t need a separate platform like Roku and Fire TV. While those boxes have grown in popularity…
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LG Launches a Newly Improved Free Live TV Streaming Service LG Channels 3.0
Today LG Electronics announced a new and improved LG Channels service called LG Channels 3.0. This free live TV streaming service along with on-demand content, has been thoroughly rebuilt to be better than ever. This new service will offer a new user interface, the ability to watch free live TV channels from inside the app,…
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Disney+ Removes Its Groupwatch Feature As Disney Cracks Down on Account Sharing
One of Disney+’s little known features was the ability to watch movies and TV shows synced with your friends no matter where they are. The feature, first launched in 2020, allowed you to share a link to let your friends and family watch a show with you even if they are not in the same…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Will Shut Down or Sell AT&T SportsNet RSNs Here is What is Happening To Each Channel
Last month, Warner Bros. Discovery said it would shut down all its AT&T SportsNet’s regional sports networks by the end of the year, but it seems like it could happen early. The fate of the three RSNs (with Warner Bros. Discovery a minority stakeholder in a fourth) has been in the air with shifting ownership…
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Plex is Cracking Down on Pirated Content
Plex is cracking down on at least one hosting service supporting pirated content in a move that may result in some collateral damage. The company, which offers users software to organize, curate and watch videos, sent a note to customers saying that their media server is associated with a hosting service that violates its terms…
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YouTube TV, Sling, & Hulu + Live TV Are All on Sale Starting at $20 a Month
Been thinking about about trying a live TV streaming service? Right now, for a limited time, YouTube TV, Sling TV, and Hulu + Live TV are all on sale just in time for the start of the 2023 NFL season. Sling TV Deal: For a limited time, new subscribers can save 50 percent on the…
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Grubhub+ is Offering $5 Off $25 Orders Exclusively for Amazon Prime Members. Here’s What You Need to Know
Amazon’s fall Prime Day is nearly upon us and members are already getting some exclusive deals leading up to next Prime Big Deal Days. One such deal is a discount on a Grubhub+ subscription. Amazon Prime members can use the code GRUBPRIME to get $5 off any GrubHub orders over $25. The offer is not…
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LG Adds 10 Free Channels, Nine Free Movies to its Smart TV Streaming Service
LG is bulking up the content on LG Channels, a streaming service found on its smart televisions. The company added 10 free channels to its line of more than 300, while it added nine free movies to its on-demand library. It’s one of many companies that have established a presence in the growing ad-supported streaming…
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Elon Musk Says He Will Start Charging All X (Twitter) Users “A Few Dollars” a Month
X, formerly Twitter, may soon be more expensive to use, if an Elon Musk teases is to be believed. Musk raised the idea of charging all users of X in the middle of a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bloomberg reporter Dave Lee first tweeted on Monday (You can see the full conversation,…
