Broadband, TV and smart home technology
The BBC has launched a Tomorrow’s World-style mass experiment to find out how our TV-viewing experience has changed in the past 10 years. The Beeb…
Xbox One owners will be able turn their bleeding-edge console into a Freeview HD box when the Digital TV Tuner arrives in October. Costing £24.99,…
If the World Cup has given you a taste for South America’s largest country, or you’re a Brazilian in the UK, TalkTalk has a new…
British Gas is trialling broadband-connected boilers which can report faults automatically and connect to Hive smart heating. The boiler from Worcester Bosch connects to your…
Sky’s revamped news channel Sky Sports News HQ launches next week. We’ve been able to get a quick first look at the new studio set…
BT has promised address-level fibre broadband information after an ISP complained that its upgraded superfast availability checker is confusing and unreliable. The BT Openreach Superfast…
A Nottingham man, believed to be running a proxy server designed to bypass illegal pirate site blocks has been arrested. The 20-year-old, who hasn’t been…
BT Openreach has yet to connect a million rural customers to superfast broadband under the Broadband Delivery for the UK (BDUK) scheme. The Broadband Performance…
One in three holidaymakers will blacklist a hotel from future stays if they’ve experienced a poor internet connection. Many of us have stood in hotel…
Sky Sports 5 is Sky’s new European football channel, exclusive home of UEFA Champions League, every non-UK Euro 2016 qualifier as well as La Liga,…
Psychologists say that moving house can be one of the most traumatic experiences we go through, right up there with marriage, having children and a…
Sky Sports has exclusive coverage of the Football League Championship, also known as the Sky Bet Championship, for the 2014/15 season. This coverage includes 90…
Don’t know if your favourite football team’s on Sky Sports or BT Sport? Virgin’s Football Fixtures Generator will tell you if it’s on and what…
Budget broadband provider Direct Save will offer free line activation and low-cost line installation when you move into a new home. The free re-activation offer…
Transport for London will be trialling free WiFi services on two London bus routes. Commuters traveling to Oxford Circus from Dulwich on the number 12…
Virgin Media plans a 0.8 per cent expansion of its broadband network as it battles TalkTalk for the title of Britain’s third largest broadband provider….
The 2014/15 season of the Scottish Professional Football League – incorporating the top level Premiership and the second-tier Championship – will kick off on August…
Sky has granted Virgin TV customers access to their Sky Movies and Sky Sports iOS apps, as long as their package includes the two TV…
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