Category: amazon prime

Amazon UK will stream some English Premier League games for free

[ad_1] Last month, BBC Sport announced it would be showing some of these games — marking the first time Premier League matches will be shown live by the broadcaster. Amazon is picking up some of the rest. It’s not yet clear which matches Amazon and other broadcasters will add to their free roster. Of the […]

Amazon is offering free access to kid-friendly Prime Video content

[ad_1] Prime Video comes with Amazon Prime, which costs $12.99 per month. If you don’t want a Prime membership, you can opt to just subscribe to Prime Video for $8.99 per month. It seems likely that this free offer is meant to serve not only as a much-need boredom killer, but also as a way […]

‘Frontline’ documentary tackles Jeff Bezos and the ‘Amazon Empire’

[ad_1] The two-hour film touches on various facets of Amazon’s vast empire, from Alexa and its massively successful Amazon Web Services cloud division through to entertainment on Prime Video and its bricks-and-mortar retail exploits such as Whole Foods. Twitch is perhaps the most prominent division that doesn’t really come under the spotlight. The filmmakers devote […]

Amazon reinstates FedEx Ground as a shipping option for Prime sellers

[ad_1] The loss of FedEx ground shipping put many third-party Amazon sellers in a bind over the busy holiday period. CNBC reported some merchants had to resort to other methods, sometimes at a higher cost, for Prime orders. They were still able to use FedEx Ground for non-Prime packages, as well as FedEx Express over […]

Amazon Prime arrives on cable-provided TiVo boxes

[ad_1] There’s no such thing as regular ol’ TV anymore. There’s cable and satellite, and a seemingly endless selection of streaming services and content platforms, so clicking around your options can be a bit time consuming and clunky. But TiVo is trying to streamline the process. From today, Amazon Prime members will be able to […]

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV show is already renewed for season two

[ad_1] While season one of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series hasn’t started filming yet, Deadline reports there’s already plans for season two. In fact, the industry outlet reports that the plan right now is to shoot the first couple of episodes of season one, then take a “four to five month break” while […]

Amazon surprise releases ‘Jack Ryan’ season two a day early

[ad_1] In a move that is surprisingly rare, Amazon Prime has decided to release the new season for one of its flagship shows a few hours early. Season two of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is available now, so fans don’t have to wait until 3AM to binge. If you’re avoiding trick or treating, then it […]

Amazon’s new Fire TV Cube is faster at understanding your voice commands

[ad_1] Buried beneath that sleek body is a new hexa-core processor which has enabled Amazon to offer local voice control, with on-device processing. That has been combined with far-field microphones that, hopefully, will help the system hear you in busy rooms. Amazon claims that the extra speed and processing power means that the Fire TV […]

Amazon offers students Music Unlimited for 99 cents per month

[ad_1] Music Unlimited typically costs $7.99/month for Prime subscribers and $9.99/month for those without Prime. A Prime Student membership is half the price of a regular Prime subscription at $6.49/month, so adding the Music Unlimited plan on top would run you $7.48/month. You can stream the service’s 50 million tunes, stations and playlists through Alexa […]

Amazon’s next foray into fashion is a personal shopping service

[ad_1] The service is currently limited to women in a wide range of sizes, including shoes from size 5 to 12. Men’s styles are coming in the near future. You won’t necessarily see all your favorite brands, but that’s not really the point — this is more about providing a helping hand to people who […]