The Disney+ streaming service will be available on Amazon’s Fire TV, settling a reported dispute that threatened to impede Disney’s much-hyped rollout. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that… Read More
Google and Amazon followed through on their peace pact this morning. The official YouTube app is coming back to Amazon’s Fire TV devices as part of an agreement that also… Read More
Amazon’s Fire TV streaming media player now has 34 million users, an increase of 4 million since the last time the company disclosed the figure back in January. Jennifer Prenner,… Read More
Amazon and Google have resolved a long-running feud that kept YouTube off Fire TV devices for more than a year. The two companies said “in the coming months,” they will… Read More
Fire TV users may soon be getting their news from Amazon. The company plans to debut a free app for streaming video news, according to a report from The Information… Read More
Amazon is working on a new type of device that can record live TV and stream it on demand, encroaching on technological turf occupied by TiVo, Bloomberg News reported Friday.… Read More
The latest addition to Amazon’s Fire TV lineup is also the latest expansion of its Alexa voice assistant. Fire TV Cube, unveiled Thursday morning, is a small box designed to… Read More
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Amazon introduced web browsing capabilities for its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick streaming devices just over a week ago, and the new feature is already paying dividends. As first… Read More
Amazon said today that it has added web-browsing capabilities to Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices through Mozilla’s Firefox and its own browser, Silk. Amazon said web-browsing is available… Read More
YouTube is rolling out a standalone app for its new TV service, but people hoping to stream content on Amazon’s Fire TV device are out of luck. After debuting YouTube… Read More
Fire TV owners can now control the streaming device without touching a remote. Amazon today rolled out a new feature for the Fire TV that allows users to pair an… Read More
Amazon Fire TV for the first time will come pre-installed on several actual TVs. Previously, Amazon Fire TV came in the forms of separate streaming media player or USB stick that served as… Read More
Amazon Tuesday announced another wave of updates to its Fire TV platform, with an emphasis on improving integration of the company’s digital brain Alexa. Amazon expanded voice search to 75 apps… Read More
Alexa, the AI assistant found on a range of Amazon devices, is getting some much-needed improvements on the Fire TV, adding more voice commands to her skillset. Amazon Fire TV owners will soon… Read More
Alexa on the Fire TV seemed like an obvious extension for Amazon’s AI assistant when rumors first broke out back in September. But until today, Alexa only ran on the latest, 4K-capable… Read More
Last night, with just a few clicks of an Amazon Fire TV Stick remote, I bought a Hershey’s Halloween Snack Size Assortment 50-Count Bag of candy via my TV screen,… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon invited a small group of reporters to a perfectly staged house in San Francisco this week to unveil the next generation of some of its most… Read More
The Fire TV isn’t dead, but its brains may be getting updated with Amazon’s Alexa, the virtual assistent first introduced with the Amazon Echo. Code uncovered by AFTVnews inside the latest… Read More
There are a lot of questions right now about what’s next for Amazon’s Fire TV, but the company went out of its way in a Tuesday press release to make… Read More
Silicon Valley is coming to Amazon. Or Silicon Valley the TV show, at least, and it’s even coming to those without a cable subscription. HBO Now, the premium cable channel’s streaming-only option,… Read More
HBO Now is coming to Android today. The $14.99/month service was previously sold exclusively through Apple devices and Cablevision’s Optimum Online subscriptions. The HBO Now app, which allows cord cutters to get HBO… Read More
Re/code reported today that Michelle Phan, a YouTube celebrity who produces beauty and makeup-related videos, is bringing her Icon Network app to Amazon’s Fire TV platform. Having a presence on… Read More
Amazon Fire TV is continuing to rapidly expand consumers’ selection for new games, channels and apps. Amazon said this morning that it has added more than 600 options to the Fire TV and… Read More
Amazon’s X-Ray feature, delivering movie and television factoids from the company’s IMDb subsidiary, is expanding to television screens through Amazon’s Fire TV set-top box and Fire TV Stick. The X-Ray feature, which… Read More
Amazon this morning announced a series of updates for its Fire TV set-top box and Fire TV Stick, including a new feature that will allow the streaming devices to work over WiFi… Read More
People in the market for a new set-top box this year may have a new option to choose from come summertime. John Paczkowski of Buzzfeed reported today that Apple plans… Read More
Amazon continues to roll out upgrades for its Fire TV family of devices. Today, the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick got access to Sling TV, Dish Network’s new $20/month over-the-top TV… Read More
Amazon this morning unveiled the second stage of its Fire TV initiative — a new $39 streaming device called the Fire TV Stick, aiming to challenge Google Chromecast and other… Read More
Owners of the Amazon Fire TV set-top box now have a wider selection of video providers to choose from, Amazon said in a press release today. The company recently added… Read More