Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Freeview Play is coming later this year and it promises to offer viewers streamlined access to catch-up content from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4….
Sky has launched Sky Sports and Sky News channels on Snapchat Discover. Users in the UK and Ireland will be able to tap into between…
Freeview has announced the name of its next-gen connected TV service: Freeview Play. The platform formerly known as Freeview Connect will offer customers the ability…
Attention vengeful exes, posting revenge porn is shortly to become an offence in England and Wales. People found guilty of posting explicit videos of…
A voice-controlled Chrome extension from Google could record and store every mutter, mumble and moan in front of the keyboard. The ‘always-listening’ extension is…
Mobile network EE could deploy small cells tethered to weather balloons and drones to quickly supply hard-to-reach rural areas with 4G mobile broadband. Buried in…
Pure fibre ISP B4RN has announced that it’s now got over 800 paying customers. The self-funded rural broadband project offers customers access to gigabit FTTP…
Gastronomes can now stream content from Food Network on iOS and Android devices on the go. Thanks to a deal between Food Network UK and…
The Premier League has sold the rights to broadcast games for the next three years to Sky and BT in a bumper £5.136 billion deal. …
The UK’s biggest mobile network has announced plans to make 4G available to 99 per cent of the population by 2017. Double speed 4G (up…
Sky Atlantic’s Victorian horrorshow Penny Dreadful has been moved back for a May 5 launch. Originally due to air on April 28, the star-studded British-American…
A second series of the BBC’s social media-based drama Dixi has arrived in time for Safer Internet Day 2015. The kids show, an online exclusive,…
Figures released for Safer Internet Day show that most children have suffered abuse online at some point. A ResearchBods survey of over 1,000 children aged…
Freeview on a phone app TVPlayer has just added Japan Broadcasting’s NHK World channel. NHK World is a free 24-hour English language news and information…
Southern Electric, Scottish Hydro and SWALEC customers can now get a Tado smart thermostat installed for free. The smart heating controller, one of the few…
Bleeding-edge up to 1,000Mbps broadband from Hyperoptic is now available in over 100,000 locations across the UK. Services are now live in developments across Greater…
Google is currently giving away three months access to Now TV Entertainment to Chromecast owners. From now until the end of February, Chromecast owners can…
Is your Samsung smart TV spying on you? Korean connected telly maker Samsung has been embroiled in a micro-scandal for allegedly failing to protect the…
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