Tag: Amazon
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Amazon Adds Free White House Coronavirus News Channel
The U.S. Coronavirus Task Force, including the agencies of the CDC, White House, Health and Human Services, and FEMA, have created an official channel for coronavirus coverage. Amazon has now made that channel available for Fire TV users, in an effort to keep people across the country informed with facts and updates. Here’s the description…
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Amazon, Apple, & Google Team Up to Make Your Smart Home Work Together
Right now, if you want to have a smart home, you need to pick from one of three main camps: Amazon, Apple, or Google. For many, you will find that devices that works with Amazon’s Alexa assistant won’t work with Google Home or Apple’s Siri. Now these companies are teaming up to address this issue…
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Google’s Smart TV Turf War With Amazon Extends to Android TV Partners
The ecosystem battle between Google and Amazon has been going on for years — YouTube, for instance, finally arrived on Fire TV models just last year. But a new Protocol report details how Google is currently preventing its Android TV partners from also supporting Fire TV, potentially blocking some key TV makers from working with…
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Amazon’s Home Internet Service Has Reportedly Completed a New Round of Testing
For some time now, Amazon has been looking at ways to offer high speed internet. The most well known of these efforts is how Amazon is working on putting satellites into space to offer high speed internet from space. Recently though, Amazon seems to be looking to build out a wireless network on the ground…
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Amazon Prime is Bringing Back ‘The Kids In The Hall’ With 8 New Episodes
Today Amazon announced the popular comedy sketch The Kids in The Hall will be returning for a reboot exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. This new Amazon original will be 8 episodes and a continuation of the original show with all the same characters returning. This will be the first Canadian Amazon Original Series. “We’ve been investing in…
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5 Pro Tips for Fire TV & Fire TV Stick Owners
The Fire TV and Fire Stick are powerful streaming players, and with these tips you can get even more out of them. So, here are my top 5 pro tips for Fire device owners. #1 Name Your Devices The Fire TV and Fire Stick let you cast content to your TV from mobile devices and…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks Are on Sale Starting At $24.99 (Ends Soon)
Good news! Just in time for the start of March Madness, the Fire TV Stick 4K is still on sale for just $34.99 down from $49.99. Want something cheaper? You can get the Fire TV Stick HD for just $24.99 right now for a limited time. There is even better news as if you qualify…
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Walmart Wants to Launch an Amazon Prime Competitor
Amazon Prime has dominated American shopping for over a decade now. Prime gives subscribers free shipping, music, TV, movies, and more. Now Walmart is reportedly working on its own version of the Amazon Prime service called Walmart+. According to Vox, Walmart is testing a $98 a year subscription service that will offer unlimited same-day delivery…
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Amazon, Disney & Others Are Fighting for NFL TV Rights
Last week, NFL owners approved the terms of a bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players Association. The Collective Bargaining Agreement could affect everything from expanding the regular season game schedule to changing salary caps. The agreement would also allow for new negotiations when it comes to broadcast rights for NFL games when…
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Amazon’s Fire TV Recast OTA DVR is On Sale For Just $144.99
Have you been thinking about getting the Amazon Fire TV OTA DVR? Good news Amazon just put the Fire TV Recast DVR 500GB version for $144.99 typically $229.99. Or you can get the 4 tuner 1TB version for $209.99 down from $279.99.4 tuner 1TB version for $194.99 down from $279.99. The best part is Amazon…