| The Drill Down 355: Year In Review 2014This week, The Drill Down crew looks back at the year in tech and the web for the year 2014. We’ll discuss our favorite tech events of the past year, and what we can expect in 2015.
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| The Drill Down 354: ScrÃœberThis week, Apple deletes, AT&T throttles, the NSA hacks, HBO outsources, and Uber, well, what doesn’t Uber do? All this, and much much more.
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| Standalone Cable-Free HBO GO Service Confirmed For 2015
Many of you have wanted it for a long, long time now, and today HBO made it official: a standalone cable-free HBO GO service will be made available at some point in 2015. This of course means that instead of having Comcast or another cable provider and paying extra for HBO—a current requirement in order to use HBO GO and watch your favorite shows and movies on your tablet or gaming console and so on—you’ll soon have the option to pay a certain fee just to use HBO GO. Ideal for those of you watch Game of Thrones on a loop all day every day. Don’t judge! I’m studying the symbolism, and counting snowflakes…because math!
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| The Drill Down 323: A Companion Through Time and Space ForeverThis week, Twitter and LinkedIn benefit from a mobile boom, Are wearables dead in the water already?, Did the FCC just hammer the final nail in Net Neutrality’s coffin?, Netflix raises fees, Amazon goes for HBO — and smartphones, what happens when a hashtag backfires on you, and much more…
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Broken Age, Danny Boyle, Double Fine Productions, FCC, FuelBand, Gnip, HBO, HBO Go, Irrational Games, Ken Levine, Leonardo DiCaprio, LinkedIn, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Nike, Steve Jobs, Tim Schafer, Twitter | |
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| HBO and Amazon Sign Exclusive Multi-Year Streaming Deal For Prime Members
Amazon has announced a new multi-year content licensing agreement with HBO, bringing their exceptional library of content online exclusively to Amazon Prime members through the Prime Instant Video service. Series and mini-series that will be available for Prime members to watch include The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Rome, Big Love, Deadwood, Eastbound & Down, Band of Brothers, John Adams, early seasons of Boardwalk Empire and True Blood, and much more. Other series, such as more recent hits like Girls, The Newsroom, and Veep, will eventually be made available to watch over the course of the new agreement, approximately three years after they first air on HBO. Continue below for a full rundown of what will be available.
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