Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Sky Sports has given its iPad app a dedicated look and feel to support its online and Red Button multi-screen coverage of the Augusta Masters…
Surrey looks to be shooting for the superfast broadband moon as it’s aiming for 100 per cent superfast coverage by 2015. Public-private partnership Enterprise M3…
Amazon Studios has greenlit Betas, a Silicon Valley start-up-based comedy show that’ll be debuting on Lovefilm. The show will follow the pursuits of four programmers working…
Allpay Broadband has breathed life into Hereford’s town centre by setting up a free public WiFi network. The network has been set up within Hereford’s…
The Humax HDR-1010S is the first FreeTime from Freesat box that comes with WiFi, meaning you can access catch-up services without having to plug the…
MTV’s music-and-entertainment channel Viva has boarded UK free-to-air satellite TV service Freesat alongside the Travel Channel. On channel 146, Viva mixes a daytime diet of…
Antonio Carluccio, Goodness Gracious Me and Blackpool have joined the library of Tesco’s Clubcard TV in a deal with BBC Worldwide. The deal adds hundreds…
Welsh broadband hopefuls can stoke their anticipation with a new phone number and postcode checker for the Superfast Cymru national rollout programme. You can search…
Two ex-BT subcontractors turned copper cable thieves became croppers when caught by local cops in Cambridge. The pair had lifted over 100 meters of copper…
How much does it cost to set up a rural broadband project? Half a million? Quarter? How about £15,000? Wireless broadband ISP Quickline has been…
Virgin Media has announced a new addition to its channel line up, rock and pop documentary channel Vintage TV. Previously only available to Sky and…
Superfast rural broadband project Fibre GarDen has had to extend the deadline on its invitation to tender, because of overwhelming interest. The plucky rural community…
Amazon has turned its Cloud Drive online storage into a true competitor for Google Drive, Dropbox and Apple iCloud at a fraction of the cost….
BT has revealed prices for its FTTP on Demand plans which show that prices for full fibre broadband start at £700 per installation. The one-off…
TalkTalk boss Charles Dunstone has called for Ofcom to regulate the prices BT charges for access to its fibre network. Arguing that competition needs to…
There’s been slow progress with BT’s Race to Infinity plans in rural Cambridge, but we’re told that superfast broadband should be available this month. The…
Superfast Essex is the latest of the UK’s projects to announce a consultation on deploying next-gen fibre-based broadband across the region. The consultation will see…
APRIL FOOL! Recombu has been given an exclusive hands-on with a new Nokia-Microsoft project that could make Google Glass look as fashionable as NHS spectacles….
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