Broadband, TV and smart home technology
BT engineers are on an emergency footing after summer storms damaged its networks from Scotland to Southend. Openreach, which maintains BT’s exchanges and customer connections,…
The Premier League has announced plans to investigate pubs offering live premiership football via sources other than Sky and BT. There will be more pub…
Sky continues to find new TV subscribers, but on-demand and on-the-move services are where it’s finding more money and holding onto long-term users. The TV…
Sky is planning to launch a new Sky+HD box this September that comes with built-in WiFi. This is great news for customers who don’t fancy…
Sky’s takeover of O2 and Be’s broadband business didn’t tip it over the five million broadband homes mark. That’s despite a healthy three months to the…
Netflix has announced that it’s got the rights to stream the final episodes of Breaking Bad in the UK and Ireland on August 12. New…
Channel 4 has updated its iOS and Android apps letting viewers download programmes to watch offline as well as on the go. Viewers will be…
Sky has announced the Now TV Box, a sleek Apple TV-style device that gives you access to the likes of Sky Sports and Sky Movies…
Fans of boxing who want a piece of the ringside action on their phones and tablets can get stuck into BoxNation’s app for iOS and…
After the Prime Minister’s announcement that some ISPs will block access to pornography by default by 2014, we’ve taken a look at some of the…
BT has announced a slight growth in the number of customers taking up TV services ahead of the launch of BT Sport. In the last…
BT has announced its latest quarterly results which show that the UK’s leading ISP has signed up almost 200,000 fibre broadband subscribers. In the last quarter…
Sky’s Now TV on-demand service has arrived on LG Smart TVs in its first TV deal exclusive for at least 12 months. New LG TV…
Chromecast is Google’s latest Apple TV challenger, a tiny HDMI dongle that plugs into your TV and lets you stream content from any phone or…
Blinkbox has got a juicy offer for you to sink your teeth into – free pilot episodes of hit shows including True Blood, The Following…
The government has been urged to reveal the extent of BT’s rural broadband plans so that any gaps can be met by other ISPs. A…
Great results for Freesat and TalkTalk show there’s room to move at the cheaper end of British TV services. Freesat has added 145,000 new homes…
TalkTalk and EE opened the quarterly results season with positive news for their broadband businesses as customer numbers rose steadily. TalkTalk’s fourth place in the…
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