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by Alex Dobie
Feb 20, 2012
As expected, British satellite broadcaster Sky has launched its Sky Go app for Android, allowing owners of some Android handsets to view a selection of Sky's on-demand TV offerings.
Right now, ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2012
HTC may be building its own streaming music service, according to reports. Tech blog GigaOM says its "sources familiar with the company's plans" indicate that HTC is working with ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 09, 2012
Google is developing a wireless, streaming home entertainment system to be released under their own brand, according to insider tips given to the Wall Street Journal. This would be a big chang...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 09, 2012
The Netflix app for Android has just hit version 1.7, bringing a handful of improvements for tablet and smartphone users. Today's update allows Netflix customers to share content on Facebook (in...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
Amazon today announced that it's reached a streaming agreement with Viacom that will bring television shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nikelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, CMT and Logo to Amazon Prim...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 07, 2012
TELUS has just launched a new app that ties in with their Optik TV service. Canadian customers can now watch a bunch of their subscribed channels streamed wirelessly to Android or iOS tablets and sm...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 07, 2012
There's a lot of choice for playing your music on Android. For every option that plays music from your local storage, there's one that pulls music from the cloud and streams it. ...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 06, 2012
Rdio, a big-name streaming music service (and my personal favourite out of the bunch), today updated their Android app with some significant changes. The last update was this summer, and simply opti...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 18, 2012
Sonos, the Android-friendly speaker system, has been able to stream SiriusXM Radio since 2007, but only in limited geographies. Today, Sirius announced that Canadian subscribers can now remo...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 09, 2012
For over a year, Media Hub has offered owners of Samsung smartphones and tablets access to on-demand streaming of TV shows and movies. Today at their CES 2012 press conference, Samsung announce...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 05, 2012
TuneIn Radio was one of my most used apps of 2011, and it's starting out 2012 strongly as they've today announced an update to both the free and pro versions of the app.
The biggest f...
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by Joshua Munoz
Dec 15, 2011
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A new era of gaming has finally been reached on Android. No, I'm not talking about the advent of Tegra-3 devices or console-quality games like Shadowgun. I'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2011
Sonos, the maker of the high-end wireless stereo system, today announced that it's updated its Android application (check out our previous review) to include support for Android tablets. And, ye...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Google TV is finally starting to grow up, now that the Honeycomb update is rolling out. And following yesterday's Google Music announcement, you can now stream all of your music to the updated G...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
By the way (if you haven't already noticed this by now): If you root your Kindle Fire, Amazon's streaming video will balk at you. The good news is it takes just a few seconds to unroot using...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 09, 2011
We're playing around with the 8Tracks Android app this morning, getting our mix on and are pretty much enjoying the ad-supported service. The idea's simple enough: DJ's (that's you)...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Oct 10, 2011
Netflix has killed its DVD-only spinoff Qwikster, less than a month after it introduced the world to its new business plan. Facing major backlash for increasing prices, Qwikster seemed to be a way f...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 19, 2011
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Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings this morning apologized for the confusion surrounding the splitting of the company's DVD and streaming services -- and ...
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by Alex Dobie
Sep 12, 2011
Games retailer GameStop is planning on making the leap over to gaming hardware with the help of Android, according to a report from GamesIndustry.biz. The upcoming tablet will apparently ship w...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 12, 2011
No doubt about it, Football is back in full swing. Last week the NFL released its official app for tablets and now DirecTV has gone ahead and launched its NFL Sunday Ticket app for Honeycomb tablets. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 17, 2011
If you're an Android wielding NFL fan, this season just got a bit more interesting, as DirecTV has released the NFL Sunday Ticket application to a slew of new Android devices, including the Motorola X...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 06, 2011
Settling in for UFC 133 tonight? If so, you'll want to grab the UFC TV app from the Android Market. The app itself allows for viewing live UFC events and if you have a device capable of HDMI out you c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 29, 2011
Read Part 1 of our Motorola Photon 4G reviewWhen Netflix updated its Android app a couple weeks ago, the number of officially supported devices climbed to two dozen. The number of devices that th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 20, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing When Lenovo announced the IdeaPad Tablet K1 as the first (and only) Honeycomb tablet to run Netflix, well, you know that just wouldn't stand. Turns out the update...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 20, 2011
Let's try this again, shall we? See, when Netflix updated its app listing with more devices this morning, they apparently kinda sorta forgot to actually included the updated app. So, the ma...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 20, 2011
So, the good: Netflix has quietly added support for a slew of Android phones, bringing the total to 24. That's two dozen devices on which to stream movies to your heart's content -- including the upco...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Take just about every feature from every streaming music service available, and you you get Spotify. But until today, those of us in the United States were left on the sidelines. No more. Spotify's n...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 06, 2011
Yes, we know -- you've heard this before and things never really panned out but this time around it might be a little bit different. Streaming music service Spotify, which has had great success in Eu...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 21, 2011
These days, digital content is everywhere. You can purchase movies, TV shows and music from a multitude of places but when it comes to getting the content you already own or pay for on your device --...
Review
by Chris Parsons
Jun 17, 2011
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 t...
