Month: July 2020

NBC and CBS’s new Peacock deal highlights how complicated keeping up with streaming will become

NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS have struck a new deal that allows a number of TV shows and movies from ViacomCBS’s library to stream on NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock. Ray Donovan, The Affair, Undercover Boss, The Game, Everybody Hates Chris, Real Husbands of Hollywood, and more will be available to stream…

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The best Chromebooks you can buy

Chromebooks have a reputation for being cheap and limited, but that hasn’t been true for a while. The combination of years of software updates and laptop manufacturers taking Chromebooks more seriously means there are a ton of good Chrome OS computer… Source

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July’s coolest new TV show is on the NBC Peacock streaming service null

If HBO Max made one mistake at launch – outside of not being available on Amazon and Roku devices, or being confused with the two other HBO streaming services that exist – it was launching without a big original show or movie to get people excited. HBO Max probably has…

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WhatsApp’s contact-adding QR codes and animated stickers officially announced

WhatsApp has announced a collection of new features that are coming to the Facebook-owned messaging service in the coming weeks. We’ve already heard about a few of them, like QR codes, that can be used to quickly add new contacts or animated stickers, thanks to their appearance in beta versions…

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Peacock’s streaming library adds shows from Showtime, CBS and the CW

Peacock, NBC’s new streaming service, won’t just be the home of content from the wider NBC Universal family. Today, the company has announced it’s sealed a deal with ViacomCBS, one of its ostensible rivals, to play host to some of the Viacom library… Source

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WhatsApp confirms a raft of fun new features, rolling out right now WhatsApp

WhatsApp has announced a raft of new features that will be rolling out to all users in the coming weeks.  First (and arguably most fun) on the list is animated stickers. We saw hints that animated cartoon add-ons would be arriving back in June, when they appeared in the app’s…

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