Thomas Newton
Staff Writer
Thomas began his career with UK Web Media writing for a variety of sites including Broadband Finder and Digital TV.
Thomas has been involved with Recombu from the beginning, contributing first to news stories and features and later phone and tablet reviews, app reviews and everything in between.
Thomas has a passion for all mobile tech, particularly Android-based devices (but has a sneaking admiration for Windows Phone as well) and classic RPGs.
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Latest posts
What is Super Hi-Vision? Toshiba unveils 84-inch 4K Ultra HD LCD TV
18 hours ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new in Super Hi-Vision? Toshiba has taken the wraps off of an 84-inch monster that its Toshiba’s latest 4K Ultra HD (or ‘Quad Full HD’ as they call it) TV set. This huge LCD...
UK parental internet controls: Deadline for responses next week
19 hours ago | POSTED IN News
What’s happening with Parental Internet Controls? A week today the UK Government will close its public consultation on proposed Parental Internet Controls. The consultation is on proposed laws that...
What is Powerline? Netgear Powerline Music Extender pipes music round your home’s wiring
23 hours ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new for powerline? Netgear has announced Powerline Music Extender, a new type of powerline adapter that lets you pipe music around the home over your home’s wiring. Perhaps best thought of...
What is The Cloud? Free WiFi comes to Lords Cricket Ground in time for England v South Africa
yesterday | POSTED IN News
What's new with the Cloud? The Cloud has announced that its providing free WiFi in the illustrious grounds of Lord’s Cricket Ground, the home of English cricket. Specifically, the free WiFi will be...
How can I get KnowHow Movies? iOS and Android apps incoming
yesterday | POSTED IN Features
What's new with KnowHow Movies? KnowHow Movies is available now for iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) and is coming to Android phones and tablets. Subscribers will now be able to watch movies on up to five...
What’s on Toshiba Smart TV: 7digital music app launching next month
yesterday | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Toshiba Smart TV?Online music store/cloud locker 7digital is coming to the Toshiba Places app store on Toshiba Smart TVs. Coming in September, 7digital’s ‘Toshiba Edition...
What is a router? Netgear N750 Gigabit router comes with cloud storage
yesterday | POSTED IN News
What's new?When’s a router not just a router? When it’s also a cloud storage device. The Netgear N750 is a dual-band Gigabit router (WiFi 802.11 b/g/n) that offers more than just blazingly...
Rural Broadband: What is it?
2 days ago | POSTED IN Features
What is Rural Broadband? Rural Broadband is a term applied to any method of broadband delivery for rural residents of the UK. Due to the nature of the UK’s comms infrastructure, there are isolated...
Kijoma rural broadband: Tatenhill and Rangemore covered
2 days ago | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Kijoma Broadband?Kijoma broadband has extended coverage of its up to 40Mbps wireless broadband to parts of Tatenhill and Rangemore in eastern Staffordshire. The wireless ISP is...
BT: Broadband, line rental and calls to increase in 2013
2 days ago | POSTED IN News
BT will be freezing prices for its broadband bundles throughout 2013, while raising costs of standalone services and out of bundle calls. Customers taking BT broadband and calls will be able to enjoy...
Fibre, Football and CAPS LOCK RAGE: Digital Voices 25/08/2012
6 days ago | POSTED IN News
This week’s Digital Voices round-up features sage advice and shouting about football, fibre broadband rollout and a woeful attempt of trolling by someone who didn’t realise that giving us...
Town and Country Broadband: Broadband Rollout Roundup 24/08/2012
6 days ago | POSTED IN News
Another moderately quiet week on the Broadband Rollout Roundup front. BT is still working hard on repairs to damaged equipment caused by the floods, hiring an extra 600 staff to help out with broadband...
Communications Data Bill: Public consultation closes
6 days ago | POSTED IN Features
The British public no longer has the ability to submit evidence and opinions on the draft Communications Data Bill. The draft Bill, known as ‘the Snooper’s Charter’, lays out proposals...
Fibre Broadband and BDUK: Liverpool to get £11 million broadband boost
last week | POSTED IN News
What's happened with Broadband Delivery for the UK?Parts of Liverpool are to benefit from a £11million cash injection to help roll out faster broadband connections around the city. Money from...
What is BT Openreach? Fibre broadband five week fallback in West Sussex town
last week | POSTED IN News
What's new for BT Openreach?BT Openreach has delayed rollout of superfast broadband in the West Sussex town of Midhurst for five weeks, due to conflict over a street cabinet. The positioning of a new...
Local TV: Made in Bristol, the shape of Local TV to come?
last week | POSTED IN News
What’s new?Ofcom has published applications forms and guidelines from broadcasters looking to launch Local TV services and multiplexes in the UK. In among the guidelines are mock ups of channel...
How can I get Netflix? Xbox 360 app updates with People Search
last week | POSTED IN News
What’s new for Netflix?Netflix has rolled out an update to its Xbox 360 app called ‘People Search’. Seemingly taking cues from the Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone, this lets you...
Sainsbury’s video on demand: How can I get it?
last week | POSTED IN News
What's new?Sainsbury’s has this morning announced a partnership with Rovi Corporation which will see movies and TV episodes available to watch on-demand via a section of Sainsbury’s site....
How can I watch Sky Sports on Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview, BT Vision, TalkTalk and YouView?
last week | POSTED IN News
Sky Sports, long the home of the English Premier League, is not just available to Sky TV subscribers. Though with Sky you get access to benefits like Sky Go (watch matches on your phone) Sky Remote...
How can I get YouView and BT Broadband? BT YouView box details
last week | POSTED IN News
BT has announced that Pace will be the maker of its BT YouView box and that it’ll be ever so slightly better than the flagship Humax YouView box and TalkTalk’s Huawei-made box. BT says...
