February 17th, 2015
How bad is it? The Verge was recently quoted saying “These companies should stop smoking weed behind the bleachers” after a string of poorly run (and designed) CES 2015 displays.
The 2015 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) was supposed to be a major turning point for the general public toward 4k, but if anything that looks to have backfired as even the big boys like Samsung, Netflix and ISPs like Comcast failed to push through anything that truly interested consumers…at least in terms of pulling their wallets out this season. Read more
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February 16th, 2015
It’s not the world cup you’re used to, but Cricket is certainly huge worldwide, and has been making it to America through British and Indian immigration more and more in recent years. Read more
Categories: Sports Previews, Analysis & Guides
February 13th, 2015
In perhaps the biggest global sporting news of the year, it’s looking like FOX will will continue to hold onto one of ESPN’s top golden gooses, as the News Corp-owned station was awarded the 2026 World Cup this past Wednesday (FOX already held rights to the women’s and men’s cups through 2022). Read more
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February 11th, 2015
Just when you thought we had run out of these stories — we’ve tried — Comcast outdoes itself once again.
This time, the culprit wasn’t so much an employee but the relative of one.
Their mother. Read more
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February 10th, 2015
The 2015 World Cup of Cricket starts Feb 13th and DISH Network has your back, just in time for the entire tournament. In fact, DISH Network is offering the entire tournament for just .99 cents, a savings of over $99 dollars.
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Categories: DISH & TV news • Sports Previews, Analysis & Guides
February 4th, 2015
It has been reported this week that DISH Network has been making massive overtures to large chunk of wireless spectrum recently set to auction by the US government. Wireless spectrum, the signals mass media companies use to get their products to consumers (there’s only so much), is one of the gateways to businesses like ISPs and Dish use to get to web markets. Read more
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February 3rd, 2015
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, when cartoonish stories of crazy retention employees couldn’t get any weirder, Comcast outdoes itself again with another parody of their long infamously terrible (or more specifically, indifferent) customer service. Read more
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February 2nd, 2015
“The Federal Communications Commission is on the verge of releasing new, stronger network neutrality regulations,” writes Timothy Lee, senior technology editor at Vox. The rules are making headlines and have been causing more and more discussion nationally because the internet becoming a utility — regardless of how you feel on the details of the topic — is a massive shift in the engineering and ownership of the web.
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December 19th, 2014
DISH today became the first major pay-TV provider in the U.S. to integrate the Netflix app into its set-top box, a major milestone for the ever expanding satellite/tech giant. Read more
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November 21st, 2014
Turner and Dish announced on Friday that they’ve connected on a new deal to bring back their programming for several months. The extension is not a new long-term contract, so negotiations will continue. Read more
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