Broadband, TV and smart home technology
BT is trialling active choice network-level online safety filters like TalkTalk’s HomeSafe ahead of a launch in 2013 – including BT WiFi hotspots. New BT…
ITV viewers can rewatch Simon Cowell’s egging with no ad breaks for £3.99/month as ITV Player Premium launches for iPhone and iPad viewers. The world’s…
The BBC is to stream 10 video feeds to smart TVs, apps and web browsers as part of its annual coverage of Wimbledon. Viewers can watch…
The third series of the popular epic drama Game of Thrones is heading to on-demand films and TV provider Blinkbox on July 15. The Tesco-backed…
Movie buffs in the UK would need to take out subscriptions to both Lovefilm and Netflix to make sure they could see their favourite films….
Mobile operator O2 is to launch a free WiFi network in Canary Wharf later this summer. Pencilled in for late August 2013, O2 will put…
Why is rural broadband so slow and so expensive? Rural broadband is a different beast to the service users get in Britain’s cities, towns and…
The government’s £530m rural broadband programme will be labelled a ‘train crash’ by auditors according to sources who have seen a draft report. The National…
Apple has launched its rival service to the likes of Spotify and Pandora as well as UK competitors Blinkbox Music. Dubbed iTunes Music, the service…
A project to get rural parts of Norfolk upgraded to superfast broadband is ahead of schedule, according to BT. The telco said that around 30…
Telecoms providers have five years of freedom to build telegraph poles and cabinets for fibre broadband despite the government receiving more objections than support for…
The Post Office has announced Get Connected, a scheme aimed at getting the 16 million people in the UK who have little or no knowledge…
Tesco has launched the beta version of its Blinkbox Music streaming service to rival market leader Spotify and the likes of Google Play Music. The…
The National Audit Office (NAO) is to look at the government’s rural broadband scheme to find out if it offers taxpayers “assured value for money”….
UK video-on-demand service Lovefilm will be streaming Stephen King’s new science fiction thriller series Under The Dome later in the autumn. The new CBS Studios-produced series…
Virgin Media is reportedly planning to launch a YouTube channel featuring game reviews that’s aimed at younger audiences. The currently-unnamed channel will feature a number…
Online services like Spotify, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Netflix and Skype cost British users up to 56 per cent more than their American counterparts. Spotify…
TV channels and manufacturers need to put security centre-stage to stop hackers taking control of smart TVs and turning them into back doors to our…
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