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Ustream app updates to version 2.0

By Michael Crider
on 26 Mar, 2012

With more than a little excitement, streaming website Ustream announced today that their Android app had been downloaded 2.5 million times. Interesting, since it's been out for almost exactly 2.5 years. Anyhoo, to celebrate the conjunction of two completely unrelated statistics, they've updated their app with some significant new functionality, including a complete user interface overhaul.

March Madness 2012: Android Apps Round-Up

By Cory Gunther
on 15 Mar, 2012

Who is ready for the best month of sports? Yup, it's March Madness time. Although the NCAA Tournament has officially kicked off already and most brackets need to already be finished, we have a few of our favorite applications for following or creating brackets, live streams and more. A couple will give you game updates, alerts, scores and even live audio streams of all 67 games so head down below to see what we liked.

Verizon and RedBox combine forces for Netflix competitor

By Michael Crider
on 6 Feb, 2012

Rumors of more robust Verizon video service have been flying for a while now, but it just became official. Big Red announced a partnership with popular vending machine rental company RedBox, with the aim of creating a "New Consumer Choice For Video Entertainment". Details are thin on the ground, but the new service will be subscription-based (as opposed to RedBox's current pay-per-play model) and is scheduled to launch in the second half of this year. Language in the press release hints at an online video service complimented by access to RedBox's kiosks scattered at locations around the United States.

Android gets AirPlay-like streaming via xBounds

By Shane McGlaun
on 22 Nov, 2011

One of the things that make it easy for iOS users to shoot music and other content around the home or office with no wires is AirPlay. I would imagine that many Android fans have thought something similar to that would be nice. A new device called xBounds has landed that will let you shoot video from an Android device out to a larger screen. The device even supports multiple player gaming.

DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket App Now available for Android Honeycomb

By Cory Gunther
on 12 Sep, 2011

With the NFL finally getting started this week along with plenty of teams seeing the light (or dark), DirecTV has introduced their own NFL Sunday Ticket app specifically for Android Honeycomb tablets. They have long had a Sunday Ticket app, but this is for Android 3.1 and up tablets only and will be taking advantage of the full 10.1" display similar to the recently released NFL 2011 for Honeycomb by the NFL.

Verizon Video App Now Available, Watch TV and NFL on your Android

By Cory Gunther
on 22 Aug, 2011

Today Verizon Wireless has unveiled their new Verizon Video App and it's available now in the Android Market. Don't get too excited though because all they've done is renamed V Cast Video to Verizon Video and gave it a pretty user interface update. Although there is good news here, the amount of content has also been substantially updated.

Google Videos App Hacked to allow root users to stream movies

By Cory Gunther
on 12 Aug, 2011

This has been discussed more than a few times since we first found out the Google Videos App would not allow rooted users to watch rental movies on their devices. For more details on that you can check this story out. Just yesterday Google updated the video app to allow streaming and playback of rented movies on FroYo and Gingerbread devices too. We have good news for those rooted users though.

20th Century Fox Bringing Blu-ray Digital Copy Downloads to Android

By Cory Gunther
on 22 Jul, 2011

For those that buy Blu-ray titles and have noticed they always come with a downloadable digital copy mostly for your PC or iDevice things are about to change and soon they will be offering them for Android. With only a few movie watching or streaming options such as Netflix for Android and Hulu having limited options and device availability, being able to download any Blu-ray you buy would be a great addition.

Hulu Android app expands to cover more devices

By Shane McGlaun
on 14 Jul, 2011

One of the apps that many users of Android devices were clamoring for was the Hulu Plus app allowing access to the streaming video Hulu offers on the go. The app finally came to the Android platform back in late June. The only caveat at the time was that the app was only supporting a very limited number of handsets. At launch, the app would work with the Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Motorola Droid X, and the Motorola Atrix smartphones.

Xfinity TV Android app hits Android Market

By Shane McGlaun
on 2 Mar, 2011

Back in December, the Xfinity app hit the Android Market and brought with it a program guide on your Android device. At the time what a lot of people really wanted was the ability to stream programs directly to their Android device and Comcast said that the Xfinity TV app was in the pipeline that would allow that program streaming.