Broadband, TV and smart home technology
BT has announced that 19 more exchanges are due to get a superfast broadband upgrade as a result of its £2.5 billion commercial plan. Exchanges…
Sky has updated its Sky Go catch up and streaming service, adding Channel 4 channels E4 and Film 4 to the mix. Now Sky TV…
A fire in Northampton has severely damaged the Blisworth Telephone Exchange, affecting broadband services in 16 regions. The blaze, which begun on Friday in the…
Netflix has launched an app that will allow Twitter users to filter out tweets about Breaking Bad as the series’ last ever episode looms. Users…
Ofcom has announced that it plans to sell off Ministry of Defence radio spectrum. The MoD, which currently owns the spectrum, said last year that it planned…
As if doing away with HDMI cables wasn’t enough, WiGig could also also act as a wireless form of USB. Using an unlicenced part of the…
ATVOD has named and shamed 10 more sites which have failed to adequately protect underage eyes from hardcore pornography. The body which co-regulates adult on-demand…
Call blocking company TrueCall has launched new software that will help phone customers block nuisance calls by drawing on other people’s reports of dodgy calls. The…
The Labour party has once again announced that it’d spend £75 million on improving the UK’s creaky rural broadband connections. At the party’s 2013 conference…
Streaming movies and music service Blinkbox gets top billing on Tesco’s Hudl Android tablet – costing as little as £60 with Clubcard points. Blinkbox, owned…
Average speeds available on O2 and Vodafone’s 4G mobile networks beat what most people in the UK can get on their fixed line domestic broadband…
A Huddersfield man has been jailed for 14 months following a sting operation by West Yorkshire police. Paul Ellis, 42, bought what he thought was…
Ofcom has earmarked four areas where local TV services are to be merged into two. The Luton and Bedford areas will now be covered by…
Pay porn sites that don’t go out of their way to prevent under 18s from accessing their content could have their revenue streams cut off. …
4K Ultra HD won’t be beaming into any homes for a while, but Technicolor has announced its first 4K ready set-top box. The snappily-named MediaPlay…
Liberal Democrat MEP and farmer Phil Bennion has declared that the government’s broadband plans are too short-sighted, saying that 10Mbps should be the minimum speed,…
Zen Internet has launched a pair of unlimited fibre broadband packages, cryptically called Unlimited 1 and Unlimited 2. Costing £27/month and £30/month, the two services…
Moving home can be a picnic basket of little problems to solve, but TalkTalk customers can have a smooth move and you might end up…
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