Fibre, Football and CAPS LOCK RAGE: Digital Voices 25/08/2012
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…
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…
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…
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…
What happened? Last week Ofcom released its latest report on the state of Broadband Britain. We took a precision microscope to the findings, breaking down…
FTTC stands for Fibre to the Cabinet. It’s one of two ways in which next-gen fibre optic broadband is being delivered to homes and businesses…
Welcome to Digital Voices, the weekly round-up of the best of the comments from Recombu Digital. Got some beef with BT? Need to mouth off…
HD – short for High Definition – is everywhere these days, but is it really a big deal and what’s the difference between 720p HD and…
Virgin Media officially has the fastest download speeds in the UK according to recent figures published by Ofcom. Figures for May 2012 put speeds…
It’s been a quiet week in terms of Broadband Rollout Roundup here. We’re not quite sure what’s going on this week, but we hear there’s…
Ouya, the Kickstarter-funded Android home entertainment console, has successfully grabbed $8.5 million from fans and early investors – nearly ten times the amount of its…
What is Acetrax? Acetrax is a streaming service that lets you either rent movies on demand or buy to download and keep. There’s no monthly…
Fibre to the premises, or FTTP, gives you a direct connection to the internet via a fibre-optic cable carrying data encoded in pulses of light. For…
£2.5 billion is being spent by BT, the UK’s biggest telco on upgrading its creaky old copper infrastructure. Large chunks of the BT Openreach network…
This week we’ve heard complaints and counter-complaints aimed at 4G wiping out Freeview, thieving pikeys stealing cable from BT cabinets, BT itself for dragging its…
What’s happened? More than 500,000 people in the UK have switched on to one of the Connect TV channels on Freeview HD. In a chat…
What’s happened? Sky’s Now TV is now available to download on iPhone and iPad. The new service from Sky gives you first-look access to movies…
Rollout Roundup has been a bit quieter on the Openreach front this week. With engineers still working on clearing up damage caused by the floods…
In case you haven’t noticed, the London 2012 Olympic Games kick off this weekend. While this will spell congested tubes and commuter frustration (for some…
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