Broadband, TV and smart home technology
While Sky will be broadcasting highlights from this year’s Isle of Wight and Download festivals in glorious HD, it won’t be showing them off in…
Iconic London dance venue Ministry of Sound may be fighting for the right to party, but it’s found a new home on Samsung’s smart TVs….
When Virgin Media launched in 2007 with its libraries of TV shows and movies, ‘on-demand’ wasn’t a term as entrenched in the public vocabulary as it is…
Sky Sports highlights have landed on Sky Go, giving sports fans the chance to relive missed games, test matches and races online and on iPhone…
Sky is reportedly considering selling the new Xbox One console alongside Sky TV subscriptions. According to inside sources, Sky is in talks with Microsoft on…
A new deal between GameStick makers PlayJam and mobile payments firm Boku means you’ll be able to buy games on your TV with your mobile…
One lucky Recombu reader is set to win the amazing Sky Complete Bundle for a year, including free installation and a Sky+HD box. The Sky…
No more than 90,000 British homes will suffer Freeview interference from 4G mobile broadband, with operators in London getting the green light to launch. Predictions…
EE has announced plans to begin doubling mobile broadband speeds to 80Mbps ‘within weeks’. This will see top download speeds climb to 80Mbps across the…
BT, local councils and the government will spend £14.6m to get an extra 40,000 premises onto superfast fibre broadband around Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. The…
Maria Miller has blasted the UK’s top ISPs for taking a soft approach on censoring pornography and terrorist content. The culture secretary has reportedly called…
A high definition smart TV for under £240? It’s not officially Freeview HD but it is officially cheap. The Kogan Agora is a 32in LED…
Plusnet is offering a basic fibre broadband connection for £8/month plus line rental for six months in a half price sale across its range for…
Channel 4 is working on a Twitter-based iPhone and iPad app, provisionally called 4Now, that’ll pull up extra content about programmes while you’re tweeting away. 4Now, which…
Soon-to-be-axed broadband provider BE has been ticked off for imposing a 150GB ‘fair usage’ on heavy downloader using its unlimited broadband tariff. BE’s fair use…
The Online Safety Bill is the latest attempt by the UK government to get ISPs to block access to adult sites by default. The Bill…
Virgin Media customers in Portsmouth have been left without broadband and TV thanks to road workers severing a piece of vital cable in the ground. …
YouView has won 400,000 users in its first six months, but it’s TalkTalk TV that’s brought in more than half, with the majority upgrading from Freeview. So…
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