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    Timothy Stenovec

    Timothy Stenovec

    Technology reporter, The Huffington Post

  • Read This Before You Cut The Cord

    A colleague of mine was considering ditching his Time Warner Cable subscription in favor of PlayStation’s new Vue TV service, which streams live TV over the Internet. Apple’s live stream of the unveiling of the new iPhones and Apple Watch failed last September.

  • Roku Finally Gets Voice Control

    Roku has finally done something about the slow and tedious process of using a remote control to steer a cursor, one character at a time, through a grid of letters and numbers to search for TV shows and movies. This is similar to the feature that Amazon debuted on its own streaming box, the Fire TV, a year ago -- simply press the microphone button on the remote, speak a name or the title of a movie or TV show into the remote, and it will appear on the screen. Roku’s search feature works across multiple apps, meaning that if you search for a movie or a TV show, Roku will show you different apps it’s available on, and how much it costs to view it.

  • Netflix Warns About The Dangers Of Binge-Watching

    Netflix has a message for you: Binge responsibly. If you live in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. or Ireland, and on Wednesday stream more than two consecutive episodes of a show on Netflix, a video will suddenly appear, and an actress or actor from one of the company's original shows will warn against the perils of binge-watching. Perhaps Linda Cardellini, who stars in the recently released “Bloodline,” will implore you to take a shower.

  • Here's What Happens When Internet Providers Have Zero Competition

    Hint: Exactly what you think.

  • Cable Companies Won't Let Cord Cutters Go Without A Fight

    Sony and Dish have recently launched services that allow you to watch live TV streamed over the Internet without subscribing to a cable or satellite package, and Apple is rumored to be working on its own live TV product that will be available this fall. HBO and Showtime will offer standalone streaming services later this year that will allow people to subscribe to the premium networks without paying for TV packages. The slew of new offerings could prompt some of the millions of households that don’t pay for traditional TV to start buying subscriptions to new services. The new options could also spur others to cut the cord -- that is, to ditch their expensive set top boxes in favor of paying Sony, Dish or even Apple, instead of their cable provider, to watch TV.

  • You're About To Start Seeing 360-Degree Videos On Facebook

    Let's all have a ball -- with spherical vids!

  • New Apple TV Is Coming This Summer: BuzzFeed

    At long last!

  • PlayStation Takes On Cable Companies With New TV Service

    PlayStation 3 and 4 owners have a new way to watch TV. And it doesn’t require a cable or satellite subscription.

  • Cable Companies Should Be Seriously Terrified Of Apple Right Now

    The rumored Apple TV service could change TV as we know it.

  • Apple Cleansing Its Stores Of Rival Fitness Trackers

    If you’re looking for a Jawbone UP24 or Nike Fuelband, you’re going to have to go somewhere other than the Apple Store. Re/Code reported on Wednesday that Apple has cleared many of its shelves of competing wrist-worn fitness trackers ahead of the launch of the Apple Watch, which will go on sale in Apple Stores next month. The Apple Watch, which starts at $349 and goes up to a whopping $17,000 for the 18-karat gold version, has some of the fitness-tracking functions of other wrist-worn activity trackers.

  • Everything You Wanted To Know About HBO Now But Were Too Afraid To Ask

    One of the most exciting bits of news to come out of Apple’s press event in San Francisco on Monday actually had to do with HBO. HBO Now will allow people in the U.S. for the first time to subscribe to HBO without paying for a TV subscription.

  • Comcast Subscribers Are Not Happy HBO Go Doesn't Work On Their Playstations

    Sony Playstation 4 owners rejoiced earlier this week when HBO Go, the popular streaming service from the premium TV network behind “Game of Thrones,” finally became available as an app on their game consoles. Subscribers to other major TV providers, including AT&T, Charter, Cox, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable, can sign up without issue. Comcast customers are not happy about it.

  • Passwords Are Terrible -- And These Companies Want To Kill Them

    The race to kill the dreaded password is on.

  • One Huge Reason For Netflix's Success

    Netflix is fond of saying it hires only “fully formed adults,” and the company treats them as such -- bestowing on them great amounts of freedom so they can take risks and innovate without being bogged down by process. “Netflix assumes that you have amazing judgment,” said John Ciancutti, the chief product officer at the online educational tech company Coursera. Not process.” Ciancutti is an engineer who left Netflix in 2012, after spending 13 years at the company.

  • Apple May Have Edged Out Samsung To Become World's Largest Smartphone Maker

    For years, Samsung has sold more smartphones than Apple. During that time, Apple sold a whopping 74.5 million iPhones. Trying to get closer to smartphone sell through for the quarter, this is how I think the landscape played out.

  • Facebook Is Now Bigger Than The Largest Country On Earth

    If Facebook were a country, it would be the most populous nation on earth. The huge social network said Wednesday that 1.39 billion people log in to Facebook each month to scroll their News Feeds, communicate with friends and look at photos. The comparison to China is somewhat ironic, since Facebook is largely blocked there.

  • How Apple Got Us To Spend Even More On iPhones

    Apple got millions of you to buy a more expensive iPhone. Neil Cybert, an Apple analyst who blogs at Above Avalon, recently wrote that Apple will save save $3 billion this year by keeping the base iPhone model at 16 GB, rather than increasing it to 32 GB.

  • Amazon Prime Members Spend An Astonishing $1,500 A Year, Survey Says

    Amazon Prime was always designed to lure members into spending more. Amazon customers who aren't Prime members spend an average of $625 per year, CIRP found. Prime is "creating all of these loyal Amazon customers that increasingly look to Amazon before they go anywhere else," Michael Levin, a partner at CIRP, told The Huffington Post.

  • Netflix Turned Down Amazon's Hit Show 'Transparent'

    Those two Golden Globes could have been Netflix’s.

  • Netflix Stock Is Soaring

    The world’s biggest subscription streaming service added 4.33 million new members in the three months that ended in December.