Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Grimsby’s Channel 7 will be the first of Britain’s new local TV stations to go live on Freeview, launching in November on, er, channel 8?…
WiFi Plug, the Leeds-based smart home company has launched an iOS app, letting iPhone and iPad owners control appliances from anywhere there’s a data connection. …
Video on demand movie finder TankTop has opened its visual search engine to all users after months of beta testing. The full launch includes improvements…
Worcestershire County Council are planning to let BT build in an area already supplied with broadband by wireless ISP Airband. A community project funded with…
A Scottish satellite broadband provider is hoping to win £125,000 of crowd-funding to ‘eliminate’ the country’s rural broadband problem. Internet Anywhere is pitching for 125…
If you’ve got a relative living in an area where Freeview could be affected by 4G, you can do your bit to help by sending…
It’s price rise season. Sky broadband looks like its going up next month, TalkTalk line rental increases in October and now word comes of Virgin Media’s plans…
TalkTalk’s MobileSafe app touched down in Google Play today and we gave it a quick road test. The new app is exclusive to TalkTalk Mobile…
Plusnet has relaunched its student broadband packages as universities and colleges prepare for a fresh intake of spongy young brains. Once again, there’s a choice…
Over 10 per cent of court cases are related to UK citizens refusing to pay their TV licence. Nearly 3,500 people a week (over 180,000…
Netflix has added personalised wish lists that keep themselves fresh in a brace of feature updates. The My List feature is on Netflix’s web interface…
BT Openreach engineers have cleared out the last of the problems that saw customers losing broadband and phone services thanks to the summer storms. The…
PS4-owning Virgin broadband customers may get faster broadband connections than everyone else as the cable provider ties up with Sony. Sony’s next-next-gen gen console will…
TalkTalk has launched MobileSafe, a security suite for Android phones that’s a mobile version of its popular HomeSafe software. MobileSafe is a free app for…
Sky is set to axe BE Broadband email addresses when it finishes migrating customers in Spring 2014, while O2 broadband users will be stuck with…
As if Samsung Smart TV owners didn’t have enough choice, on-demand video service Wuaki has now arrived. Bringing movie and TV titles ranging from Iron…
A committee of MPs has announced a new inquiry into online child safety. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee, chaired by the Conservative MP for…
It’s amazing that the Sky+ apps let you set remote recording from your phone, but what could be more amazing than that? Setting recordings from…
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