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See how Google's new 'Project Tango' smartphones sense the world
Netflix decided to have a little fun with the idea with its own promo for "Drone 2 Home," a service that promises delivery DVDs to your home in the minutes you would otherwise spend streaming your content. Hank Breeggemann, general manager for Netflix's DVD division, is shown to enlist a fleet of DJI Phantoms to fly into office bathrooms and cars delivering their goods, places you would obviously want to watch movies.
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Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You’ve Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Your Movie
Done right, internal hackathons are awesome. They encourage company developers to build all the crazy stuff that they’d normally never dabble with, be it for lack of time, fear that their co-workers/bosses would think they’re nuts, or because their ideas are just too far from “the company vision” or whatever. When all that’s on the line is bragging rights and beer, people build surprisingly awesome stuff.
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Beware of a New Breed of Scammers Pretending To Be Netflix Tech Support
Netflix subscribers beware: There’s a scheme floating around the Internet that you should watch out for. If you’re not careful, you could end up about $400 poorer and with a stolen identity.
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Roku's new Streaming Stick works with most TVs, drops price to $50
When Roku released its first Streaming Stick in late 2012, it was a tough sell. A new lower-cost version with HDMI is now available.
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Why Netflix is about to bump up prices
Netflix's content costs are increasing on seemingly every front: acquisition, creation, and distribution. Even though the battle is heating up with Amazon.com and Netflix would like to keep its prices low, you have to wonder if Netflix can keep the cost of a subscription at its current level. The cost of a streaming package is only $7.99, that's almost half the price of a movie ticket in New York City. Can prices remain this low going forward in the face of deals like the one with Comcast?
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Comcast will soon stream House of Cards too, seemingly to spite Netflix
That's right, puny Netflix subscribers: Xfinity now has your show, too.
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Netflix Blog: Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality
The Internet is improving lives everywhere – democratizing access to ideas, services and goods. To ensure the Internet remains humanity's most important platform for progress, net neutrality must be defended and strengthened.
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Netflix Chief Alters View on Net Neutrality
Reed Hastings said that once Netflix agreed to pay Comcast for a better connection, Netflix customers no longer experienced delays streaming video.
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What if Netflix switched to P2P for video streaming?
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings suggested tongue-in-cheek this week that the company could switch to P2P video streaming to avoid peering troubles with ISPs. Would that actually be possible?
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Netflix blasts Internet providers: 'Consumers deserve better'
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings accused big broadband providers of compromising Internet freedom and degrading the experience of consumers.
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AT&T Mobility CEO says Netflix should pay a traffic tax, not customers
AT&T pulled in a staggering $128.8 billion in revenue in 2013. The company's operating income for the full year totaled more than $30 billion. According to the company's mobile boss, however...
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12 Mind-Blowing Documentaries On Netflix Right Now
As you search for a movie to watch this weekend, consider abandoning the fictional for some real-life drama. Here are 12 completely fantastic documentaries on Netflix right now, destined to blow your mind (or at least make you think a little).
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The Slow, Cold Death Of Cable Has Begun
Cable companies, you've been put on notice. Cord cutting - ditching your steep monthly cable or satellite bill and instead watching video online - is on the rise, according to a new report from Experian Marketing Services.
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Netflix Is the Real Winner if the Supreme Court Sides With Aereo
Even if the Supreme Court rules in Aereo's favor, its biggest challenges may be still to come.
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Netflix to become real TV and get its own ‘cable channel’ next week
Netflix has reached an agreement with three cable companies that, for the first time, will let U.S. subscribers watch the streaming video service as though it were an ordinary cable channel.
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BitTorrent: Netflix should defeat ISPs by switching to peer-to-peer
It turns out Netflix is researching peer-to-peer architecture. Here's our new report. BitTorrent, Inc. CEO Eric Klinker claims that peer-to-peer architecture can "re-architecture the Web for equality," and he urged Netflix to try it out. The Federal Communications Commission is on track to endorse pay-for-play arrangements in which Web services like video streaming and VoIP could pay ISPs for a faster path to consumers than other services receive.
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Netflix Price Increase: Is There A Billion Hidden In Those Couch Cushions?
With the company set to surpass 50 million streaming subscribers by the second half of 2014, the price increase could add between $600 million and $1.2 billion to the company’s revenues within the next two years. And if all goes according to plan, Netflix can potentially experience the opposite effect it did when it last tried to raise prices in 2011.
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Netflix brings net neutrality concerns to U.S. regulators
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After weeks of public outcry, Netflix Inc brought its concerns about Internet neutrality directly to U.S. regulators this week in meetings with Federal Communications Commission
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A Brief History of the Television
From electron beams to House of Cards, we surf the history of the TV. Stay tuned!
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'Orange Is the New Black' will get a third season on Netflix
News that may or may not top the excitement that an imminent taco night elicits: Netflix has extended the sentence of "Orange Is the New Black" to a third season.
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