Though BlackBerry announced the launch of BlackBerry 10 OS with 70,000 apps - which according to the company is by far the most for a first-generation platform in mobile history - the company failed to release the highly coveted Instagram app for BlackBerry 10 devices on the day of launch. Another app that people are looking for on BlackBerry 10 is Netflix. ...
05:38 PM, Jan 31, 2013
An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc's streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas Day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday. ...
10:10 AM, Dec 26, 2012
New York: Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest are using Twitter and Facebook to update subscribers after violent storms across the eastern US caused server outages for hours. Netflix and Pinterest restored service by Saturday afternoon. Instagram used its Facebook fan page to communicate with users of its photo-sharing service. It posted a message on Saturday morning that blamed the electrical storm for the outage and explained that its engineers were working...
09:50 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Hulu will broadcast its first original scripted series next month, a political comedy that will debut during the real-life Republican presidential primary. The online video service is ramping up its rivalry with Netflix Inc. Aimed squarely at an audience loyal to cutting edge comedy such as "The Office" and "The Colbert Report," Hulu's new show "Battleground" is a look at the inner workings of a Democratic primary campaign...
10:40 AM, Jan 16, 2012
New York: Microsoft Corp has put its talks with media companies about an online subscription service for TV shows and movies on hold, according to people familiar with the discussions. The technology giant had been in intense talks with potential programming partners for over a year and was hoping to roll out the service in the next few months. But it pulled back after deciding that the licensing costs were...
11:47 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Los Angeles: HBO fired a shot across Netflix's bow this week, confirming it will no longer sell discounted DVDs of hit shows like "Boardwalk Empire" to the subscription video service. The move by Time Warner Inc.'s pay TV channel is more antagonistic than damaging. Netflix Inc. can maintain its mail-order movie rental offerings by buying HBO discs from other sources - even retail stores. "Netflix will continue to provide HBO...
01:53 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New York: Verizon Communications Inc plans to launch a standalone service allowing customers to stream movies and television shows over the Web, in a fresh challenge to Netflix Inc and the traditional cable TV business, according to several people briefed on the plan. The phone company is talking with prospective programming partners about the service, which would be introduced outside of markets where it currently offers its broadband and TV...
11:43 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Bangalore: Netflix and Amazon.com Inc unveiled content deals with Walt Disney Co on Monday, a sign of increased competition between the two companies in the video streaming business. Netflix said it extended its license agreement with ABC Television Group, a division of Disney, to continue to stream TV shows over the Internet. With the extension of the existing license agreement, Netflix will also add new TV show episodes from ABC...
08:40 AM, Nov 01, 2011
San Francisco: If the idea of being stuck on a plane for hours without access to the movies in your Netflix queue fills you with dread, software that lets you record streaming videos from the Web and watch them later on your laptop may be an appealing solution. That's the idea behind PlayLater, which bills itself as "the DVR for online videos." It can record content from a number of...
04:05 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Los Angeles: Netflix Inc has won a deal to pipe Dreamworks Animation movies starting in 2013, the first time a major Hollywood studio has chosen Internet streaming over traditional pay TV, The New York Times reported on Sunday. Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told the newspaper the deal, worth $30 million per picture to Dreamworks over a number of years, was "game-changing" and represented a bet that viewers would soon no...
01:45 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Los Angeles: DVD rental giant Netflix is seeking a change to US law that would allow subscribers to automatically share the movies and television shows they rent with friends on Facebook. Subscribers in Canada and Latin America will be given the option to link their accounts to Facebook, but the service cannot be offered in the US because of a 1980s law, Netflix's director of Government Relations, Michael Drobac, said...
08:05 AM, Sep 25, 2011
New York: Blockbuster unveiled a video streaming service limited to Dish Network satellite subscribers, a move to better compete with movie rental giant Netflix and rival cable and satellite TV providers. For non-Dish subscribers, the company plans to unveil an online streaming plan later this year, Blockbuster president Michael Kelly told Reuters in an interview. Blockbuster, the once-dominant video store chain, is trying to rebuild its brand in an increasingly...
08:26 AM, Sep 24, 2011
Los Angeles: Top video rental company Netflix Inc split off its DVD service to a separate website called Qwikster, setting off another round of complaints from customers already angry at a price increase and sending its shares down 7 per cent. Negative comments piled up on the company website on Monday, a little more than two months after Netflix raised prices for DVD services. Chief Executive Reed Hastings admitted to...
07:44 AM, Sep 20, 2011
San Francisco: Netflix's decision to raise prices by as much as 60 per cent is turning into a horror show. The customer backlash against the higher rates, kicking in this month, has been much harsher than Netflix Inc. anticipated. That prompted management to predict Thursday that the company - the largest US video subscription service - will end September with 600,000 fewer US customers than it had in June. It...
04:26 PM, Sep 16, 2011
New York: A new Nielsen survey finds that in the battle between screens, Netflix users are opting for TVs and Hulu users are siding with computers. Video game consoles have a lot to do with the discrepancy: Half of all Netflix users connect to its streaming service through their Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox consoles, according to the survey. The study, conducted in 12,000 online interviews in...
04:37 PM, Jul 28, 2011
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc has licensed thousands of television shows from CBS Corp to help the largest Internet retailer compete with DVD rental and video streaming company Netflix Inc. The non-exclusive deal adds TV series that include Frasier and Cheers, along with the Star Trek franchise, to Amazon's video streaming service. Terms were not disclosed, but Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente said the deal was worth more than $100 million....
02:32 PM, Jul 21, 2011
Sunnyvale: A California startup is making new hit movies such as "The Fighter" available for instant viewing online through a loophole: It lets customers rent a DVD and a player that are actually located in the Silicon Valley. By doing this, Zediva Inc. wants to circumvent the usual, sometimes lengthy waiting period that movie studios impose on Netflix Inc. and other companies that offer streaming of movies to Internet-connected TVs,...
01:21 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Bangalore: US online retailer Amazon.com is developing a film streaming service, which would compete directly with Netflix Inc, the Financial Times said. Amazon is planning to bundle access to the streaming service with Amazon Prime, a scheme that guarantees Amazon customers unlimited free shipping of books and other items sold by the online retailer after paying an initial fee, the FT said, citing a person familiar with Amazon's plans. Amazon's...
04:08 PM, Feb 02, 2011
New York: Google's foray into internet television is not going quite as planned. Google plans to rework the software for Google TV before more manufacturers bring devices to market with that programming installed, reported US media recently. That's after critics savaged the first take of the system. Google TV is designed to operate on special televisions or set-top boxes. Japanese company Sony and Swiss computer peripherals manufacturer Logitech are already...
08:59 AM, Jan 02, 2011
San Francisco: A company linked to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is suing 11 major corporations, including Apple, Google and Facebook, accusing them of infringing on technology patents. Interval Licensing is asserting four patents against a cluster of defendants, including also AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube, according to the suit. Google, Facebook and eBay said they will fight the accusations by Interval, which...
12:20 PM, Aug 28, 2010
