Tag: Hooks

04 DEC

GAME hooks up with Three to sell more smartphones

GAME is trying everything to turn its struggling retail business around. Today, the company announced a partnership with Three that will expand its in-store phone offerings. A Three-branded “gondola” will be trialed in 15 London stores, pushing smartphones, SIM cards, MiFi devices and pay-as-you-go top-ups. GAME sells handsets already but typically these are trade-ins rather […]

08 JUL

Web gets built-in copy protection hooks with a few key flaws

Like it or not, the web is getting some built-in padlocks. The World Wide Web Consortium has decided to publish Encrypted Media Extensions, a standard for hooking copy protection into web-based streaming video, without making significant changes to a version agreed to in March. While it’s not perfect, the W3C argues (you still need to […]

03 JUL

Power Recap: 'Til Death Penalty Do Us Part — Plus: Who Hooks Up?

Need to catch up? Check out the previous Power recap here. The chances of Power‘s James “Ghost” St. Patrick becoming an actual ghost just rose significantly. In this week’s episode, the drug kingpin gets some very disconcerting news: The Feds have been approved to seek the death penalty in his prosecution for Greg Knox’s murder. And […]

28 JUN

How Amazon’s Alexa hooks you

GUEST: Last year we added a new member to our household. I must admit that upon first meeting her, our initial impression was that she was a little creepy. Today though, we can’t imagine life without her. We’ve never seen her face, but we talk to her throughout the day, every day. She helps us […]

19 FEB

Saturday’s Best Deals: Sling TV, Roku 4, 3M Command Hooks, and More

3M Command hooks, Amazon’s top-selling fire pit, and Sling TV lead off Saturday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Top Tech Deals Refurb Roku 4, $ 63 While it’s a generation old at this point, the Roku 4 is still one of the few streaming boxes […]