Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Open source service TorrenTV is making streaming torrents to your Apple TV easy. Once you’ve got Torrent TV installed, getting movies to play on Apple…
Signing up to the Telephone Preference Service will only cut spam calls by around a third but reduces other kinds of nuisance calls too. Communications…
TalkTalk’s TV customers can get a taste of streaming TV with four channels at no extra cost. CBS Action, CBS Drama, CBS Reality +1 and…
Blinkbox has joined rivals Netflix and Google Play Movies on the Chromecast TV streaming dongle. The Tesco-owned pay-per-view film service has upgraded its iPad and…
Four pioneering British TV tech companies have been picked to pitch their inventions to the world’s broadcasting industry. Chirp, CrowdEmotion, StreamHub and Grabyo won the…
Sky has doubled the number of broadband-connected Sky+HD boxes but could face a limit from users who haven’t upgraded older hardware. The On Demand-friendly new…
Hampshire council has revealed the locations where 11,000 premises will be in reach of superfast broadband in its extended broadband rollout. Rural parts of Romsey,…
The Only Way Is Essex will be rehoused away from conventional TV when female-friendly channel ITVBe launches on October 8. ITVBe will be available on…
British internet users are opting out of the internet filters provided by ISPs under pressure from Prime Minister David Cameron. Ofcom found that only TalkTalk…
BT has made landfall with a recycled undersea fibre cable that will bring superfast broadband to the Isles of Scilly by the end of this…
Chromecast mirroring for Android is great for showing off your holiday snaps and messing around with Google StreetView, but what else can you do with…
Humax has unveiled its latest set-top box: the Freeview HDR-1800T offers access to all Freeview HD channels as well as recording for £149.99. The HDR-1800T…
Sky’s streaming service Now TV has landed on the PlayStation 4. The on-demand platform aimed at non-Sky TV subscribers lets you tap into Sky’s premium…
TalkTalk has overhauled BT as the UK fourth-largest TV service as it hires engineers for its BT-busting gigabit fibre broadband trial in York. The YouView-based…
Sky is setting up August 12 for a major sports channel reshuffle as it upgrades Sky Sports News and launches Euro football channel Sky Sports…
Legoland Windsor has become the latest theme park to offer free WiFi to guests courtesy of The Cloud. Families will be able to connect to…
Sky’s new European football channel Sky Sports 5 is kicking its way to TalkTalk TV subscribers next month. The new sports channel will arrive on…
To celebrate the release of new movies on TalkTalk Box Office we’ve joined forces with TalkTalk to give away a 40-inch Samsung 1080p HD TV…
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