Alex Lane
Digital Editor
Alex cut his journalism teeth writing for local newspapers, before getting stuck into consumer technology with a 12-year stint writing and editing What Satellite & Digital TV magazine. When he’s not trying to make space on his Sky+, Alex is often dreaming of more road trips to places without roads.
Favourite cuppa: Early Grey with vanilla.
alexlane@recombu.com | @96PerCentChimp | Google+
Latest posts
What is Freesat? First G2 box to be unveiled September 4
22 hours ago | POSTED IN News
What's new for Freesat?Freesat will launch the first of its next-generation satellite TV receivers on Tuesday (September 4), marking the first upgrade to its technology standards since it launched...
What is YouView? Scots YouViewers get STV catch-up app
23 hours ago | POSTED IN News
What's new for YouView?ITV's north-of-the-border counterpart STV has launched its own catch-up TV player on YouView, completing the basic on demand TV line-up with the likes of Emmerdale...
Virgin TV Anywhere: iPad and web editions coming in October
yesterday | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Virgin Media’s TV Anywhere?TV Anywhere will launch for the iPad and web browsers in October 2012, What Hi-Fi Sound & Vision reports, allowing Virgin TV customers to watch...
How to watch the London 2012 Paralympics: extra channels and HD
yesterday | POSTED IN Features
Olympic sporting action switches from the BBC to Channel 4 for the London 2012 Paralympics, which opens tonight and runs for the next 12 days. The Olympics was the biggest-ever event in the history of TV...
What’s on LG Smart TV? Game World 3D gaming portal now live
2 days ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new for LG Smart TV?This September, LG will add GameWorld, a dedicated Smart TV portal for both 2D and 3D games for the Cinema 3D TV range, with both free and paid-for titles. GameWorld has...
What is Smart TV or Connected TV?
2 days ago | POSTED IN Features
What is Smart TV or Connected TV?If you’re buying a TV or Blu-ray player today, the chances are that it will come with ‘smart TV’ or ‘connected TV’ - but should this make...
How can I get Blinkbox? Microsoft's Silverlight takes over from Flash Player
3 days ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Blinkbox?Blinkbox has today swapped to Microsoft's Silverlight streaming video player from Adobe Flash Player for PC and Mac users. CEO Michael Comish said Silverlight will...
Why hasn’t BT Openreach fixed my broadband? Weather emergencies in Highlands and Islands, and Tayside and Fife
3 days ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new for BT Openreach repair updates?Severe storms, heavy rain and lightning strikes have lead to emergency conditions being declared for the Highlands & Islands and Tayside & Fife...
How to get Now TV from Sky: live on Xbox 360, 720p HD movies
last week | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Now TV from Sky?Now TV is now available for Xbox 360 consoles, bringing 720p HD movies to the on-demand table. The Xbox 360 app marks the first time that HD content has been available...
How can I get Barclays Premier League football on TV? Sky Sports iPad app gets stats bonanza
last week | POSTED IN News
What’s new?Sky has added in-depth statistics and facts about Barclays Premier League matches, teams and players to its Sky Sports for iPad app, which is free to Sky Sports subscribers. A new Football...
County Broadband rural broadband: superfast wireless now in Tendring, Great Bromley and Thorrington
last week | POSTED IN News
What’s new for County Broadband?The parishes of Tendring, Great Bromley and Thorrington have been added to County Broadband’s Next Generation Community Access wireless broadband network, at up...
CLANNET rural broadband: Cowesby repeater up and running
last week | POSTED IN News
What’s new for CLANNET?A new wireless repeater antenna has been commissioned in Cowesby, and has been tested at up to 25Mbps. Clanet is now accepting orders from villagers and the surrounding area...
Fibre broadband: Who’s doing it? Plusnet boosts FTTC to 76Mbps
last week | POSTED IN News
Who’s boosting fibre broadband speeds?Plusnet is increasing FTTC fibre broadband speeds across its network from up-to-38Mbps to up-to-76Mbps. Following a seven-month trial with 700 Plusnet customers...
Superfast Roulette: Broadband Rollout Roundup 17-08-2012
last week | POSTED IN News
It’s been a busy week for broadband rollouts in England this week, although there’s been very little activity in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Here’s Broadband Rollout Roundup...
A not so smart TV: Jacked episode 3
last week | POSTED IN News
The long-anticipated Apple TV is expected to join the throng of devices replacing remote control with voice control, but is voice control all it's cracked up to be? Recombu Digital editors Tom Newton...
Up-to-20Mbps ADSL2+ broadband speeds: O2/BE are fastest says Ofcom
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new in UK ADSL2+ broadband speeds?Ofcom’s 2012 fixed-line broadband speeds report places O2 and BE in first place for average ‘up-to-20Mbps’ ADSL2+ speeds during the evening...
Sky+ app: iPad becomes full Sky+ HD remote control
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new with the Sky+ app?The iPad edition of the Sky+ app is now a full remote control for Sky+ HD, letting you change channels, pause, play and rewind TV by swiping across the screen, as demonstrated...
What is WiFi?
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN Features
What is WiFi?WiFi is a technology designed for exchanging electronic data using radio waves over a computer network. The WiFi trademark and technology licenses are managed by the WiFi Alliance, and only products...
The age of aquarius: Digital Voices 11/08/2012
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN News
You can learn a few things reading the comments, and this week we’ve learned that it’s the Age of Austerity, it’s hard to be sarcastic without smilies, and some people don’t know what a...
Fibrewave Networks rural broadband: Ofcom consults on permission to build FTTP network
3 weeks ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Fibrewave Networks?Fibrewave will soon be able to dig up roads to install fibre-optic ducts and street cabinets for its rural FTTH broadband service, if an Ofcom proposal goes through without...
