Broadband, TV and smart home technology
David Cameron has outlined his government’s plans for 5G in the UK, which will be fast enough to download full feature length movies in a second. …
Non-payment of the TV Licence fee could result in a civil offence instead of a criminal one, according to plans being discussed by MPs. Currently,…
F1 needs an exciting year after Red Bull swept the board in 2013 – and if you’ve been following the pre-season tests then 2014 could…
Free and open public WiFi hotspots are increasingly being used by criminals to steal personal data, warns a top European cybercop. Troels Oerting, head of Europol’s cybercrime centre,…
Popcornflix is the latest free movies site to launch in the UK. While the word ‘free’ comes with certain baggage there’s some real straight to…
The BBC’s director of television Danny Cohen has refused to rule out closing down BBC Four. It’s been proposed that BBC Three would cease to exist as…
Sky Sports has won the rights to screen all matches in the upcoming Women’s Rugby World Cup. The top twelve nations will compete in France…
Fibre broadband provider Gigaclear has been told off by the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) over wording relating to top broadband speeds. Gigaclear had run an advert stating…
The Virgin TV Anywhere app has been updated and is now available on the Google Nexus 5 device and supported Android devices running 4.4 KitKat. …
Dorset is set to reap an extra £770,000 to invest in superfast broadband with Bournemouth and Poole also get a share of the cash. The money…
The BBC has confirmed that it plans move BBC Three online in favour of creating space in the airwaves for timeshift channel BBC One+1. Children’s channel…
The BBC is considering shutting down the BBC Three broadcast channel and moving everything online to the iPlayer. The main reason it’s doing this is…
Roku has announced its latest smart TV device, the Streaming Stick, an HDMI dongle plugs straight into your TV a la Google Chromecast. You can…
BBC Three may be dropped from the airwaves and live on as an iPlayer-only, online channel. The BBC is expected to formally announce the the…
Home owners could soon be using just one app to control the heating, lighting and power. Brtitish home automation developer Lightwave RF developed the app…
Customers who don’t want an Openreach engineer to install their fibre-based broadband now won’t have to wait around for as long to get connected. BT’s…
BT Openreach engineering ‘hit squads’ are going door-to-door in Basingstoke, Guildford, Taunton and Sunbury to tackle flood damage. Openreach, which looks after connections from the phone exchange…
Humax has unveiled its latest YouView box, a DTR-T1010 with a massive 2TB hard drive. Costing £300 – the same launch price as the original…
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