Devices

Netflix customers have been asking for a way to watch the streamer’s content in offline mode for years. Now a third-party service, PlayOn Cloud, is letting subscribers of Netflix... More

Though the adoption of 4K video by programmers and service providers hasn’t occurred as quickly as some vendors were expecting, U.S. consumer adoption of 4K-capable TVs has been ... More

Bots, in some form or another, have been a part of Slack’s offering since it launched in 2013. The communications tools now has 4 million daily active users, up from 2.3 million ... More

Instagram has confirmed that it’s working on adding a live video feature to its app. CEO Kevin Systrom discussed the company’s live video ambitions in an interview with the Fin... More

With many more people wishing to unwrap a 4K/UHD TV during the holiday season, the Consumer Technology Association has reported that 4K/UHD sales should reach an all-time high. CTA... More

Sony has launched the PlayStation 4 Pro, the company’s top-shelf console that supports 4K resolution and high dynamic range (HDR) images. The new, higher-octane platform, which s... More

There was a big turnout on Election Day — on Twitter. Whether they cast their vote for Donald Trump, who champions Twitter as a "modern-day form of communication", or Hillary Cli... More

Several weeks ago, Twitter announced that it was closing down Vine, its short-video sharing app. The news was widely mourned by fans of the service, but it appears that those eulog... More

The installed mobile device base will help to power revenue, with the report forecasting that there will be around 6.2 billion devices (smartphones and tablets) in 2020. Emerging m... More

Applicaster has launched the 2016 edition of the Video app with new features to facilitate intuitive interaction and engagement with the channel’s shows and early learning concep... More

According to a new report, digital game spending is well over three times that of eBooks, and a lot of that spending is happening on consoles and PC/Mac, where players spend around... More

After a successful launch this spring, the Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc with high dynamic range (HDR), the cream of the 4K crop, is gearing up for its very first gift-giving season. “Th... More

G-Technology announced the expansion of its G-DRIVE portfolio, with its first solid state portable drive, the G-DRIVE slim SSD USB-C. The new drive brings faster interface speeds w... More

PlayStation Vue, Sony’s streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters, just got more useful. The company announced the service will now run on Android TV, and will arrive on both Ma... More

Apple TV now has 1,600 apps devoted specifically to video content, so Apple is unveiling a product designed to make it easier to discover which TV shows and movies to watch. The ap... More

Streaming of TV and video content continues to rise and while conventional TV sets continue to dominate the way consumers view it, digital devices -- desktop/laptop computers, mobi... More

Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on domain name service provider Dyn may have seemed like the end of the world for millions of Netflix, Twitter and Spotify users, bu... More

On a future that’s split and fragmented between platforms: "There’s a kind of idealist who thinks we have to consolidate all these different platforms into one because they onl... More

IBM Chief Executive Virginia Rometty, speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive 2016 technology conference, pointed to the company’s new deal with General Motors Co. to pa... More

Microsoft today is announcing updates to its Azure IoT (Internet of Things) public cloud capabilities, along with new services to help business more widely deploy internet-connecte... More