Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Netatmo’s latest connected home appliance, Welcome, is a smart security camera that learns to recognise friendly faces – and spot unfriendly ones. Thanks to facial…
If you can’t face the day without first having a damn fine cup of Joe, then Smarter Coffee might be up your alley. Aimed at…
Netflix has been accused of starting to block services that help customers bypass regional locks. TorGuard, a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and proxy service, has…
TalkTalk Boosts are extra bolt-on bundles of channels that you can customise your TalkTalk TV subscription with. Boosts range from premium Sky Sports (£30/month) and…
There’s plenty of on-demand box office-type services promising same-day as DVD release availability, but how do they stack up? We compared TalkTalk Box Office, Sky…
Netflix is everywhere – literally. While it gives us the freedom to binge-watch entire TV series’ and movies on our laptops, tablets and phones, how…
Pure fibre ISP Hyperoptic has started piping gigabit broadband services to its first Manchester customers. Mancunians in Sovereign Point and Imperial Point in Salford Quays…
Smappee tells you which of your appliances are using the most juice – and costing you the most money. But while every smart energy and…
We go hands on with Tado’s smart home heating system, which claims to be able to shave you pounds off your bill by intelligently automating…
Virgin Media customers with the M+, L, XL TV packages can now tune into ten more channels including Nigerian channel Nollywood Movies. The premium channel…
If you’re lucky enough to unwrap a sparkling new iPad this Christmas, you’ll probably want to kick back and watch some movies on it at…
BT has made an offer to buy EE. Aside from the UK’s biggest ISP taking over the UK’s biggest mobile network, what does this mean…
TalkTalk has begun bundling free SIM cards with its Plus TV broadband, home phone and YouView bundles. Worth £90, the free TalkTalk Mobile SIMs give…
What Christmas is complete without celebs donning their sparkle and waltzing around the Strictly Christmas tree? This year, the festive special features some stars of…
BT is now selling Sky Sports 1 and 2 to TV customers with superfast Infinity broadband and YouView boxes. Following a lengthy and gruelling series…
BT has confirmed that it will make a bid for EE’s mobile network. Merging with EE and acquiring its 24.5 million mobile customers would transform…
BT could soon make an announcement on whether it intends to hammer out a deal with O2 or EE. Some sites are saying today is…
We review the BT8500 Advanced Call Blocker landline phone, which provides a helpful barrier between yourself and those PPI pests. You’ve just poured yourself and…
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