Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Google’s smart home energy and safety monitoring offshoot Nest has added remote CCTV to its line-up with the £336m purchase of Dropcam. The cash deal…
The Wimbledon competition is about to hit our TV screens, in what promises to be an explosive two weeks of tennis, strawberries and cream. The…
All of Plusnet’s new broadband packages are now unlimited as standard. New customers are now free to download as much as they like without having…
Guildford, Reading and Salisbury will be next to receive dedicated local TV with the launch of three That’s TV channels later this year. Broadcasting regulator…
Dave on Demand and Really are set to be rolled into a single service – UKTV Play – which is coming to iOS devices, PC…
Freeview HD viewers will soon be able to catch up with classic hits from Vintage TV, a music channel playing hits from the 20th Century. …
Archos is jumping on the Internet of Things bandwagon with its new Smart Home kit, which lets you control multiple smart cameras from a tablet. …
Free TV streaming app TVPlayer has added Food Network and the Travel Channel to its channel line up. The app, perhaps best described as ‘Freeview…
With Game of Thrones season four done and dusted, we’ve now got a few months to twiddle our thumbs and wait for season five to…
Virgin Trains passengers will be able to surf as well as travel at high speeds once free WiFi is rolled out on West Coast trains. …
The government has chosen a mix of fibre, wireless and satellite ISPs to work on delivering superfast broadband to those in the five per cent. …
Ofcom has rejected claims by TalkTalk that BT is unfairly pricing its fibre broadband services for broadband providers. However, the telecoms watchdog has proposed new…
Game Of Thrones season four is now available on Google Play and Amazon Instant Video store, months before the official DVD release. The latest episodes…
Without much fanfare, iconic TV series Breaking Bad is now available to UK Netflix subscribers in 4K. The streaming service has promised that the crystal…
Can’t wait nine months for GoT season 5 to drop? Now TV is offering some rather tenuously-related shows you can watch in the meantime. The…
Freetime, the catch-up service used by Freesat, could be used to power the upcoming Freeview Connect service. The smart catch-up service currently lets Freesat viewers…
The outcome of Italy vs Costa Rica could affect England’s chances of getting through the group stage of 2014 World Cup following Italy’s narrow 2-1…
Virgin Media is said to be in the final stages of launching its next Super Hub router which will bring WiFi AC and four gigabit…
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