Broadband, TV and smart home technology
Openreach engineers have cleared out the last of the damage caused by St. Jude’s Storm, which had prevented new customers from being connected in a…
Peterborough firms and families will be able to tap into ultrafast fibre broadband delivering speeds of up to 1Gbps thanks to a deal done with…
Connecting Cheshire, the organisation tasked with overseeing the roll-out of superfast broadband in Cheshire, has published a fibre broadband rollout map just seven months after the signing of…
Netflix has undergone a radical overhaul of its user interface on big screen television promising a richer and more immersive experience. The new design, which…
Netflix has quietly added a number of ultra high definition videos to its US website, in what looks to be a planed roll out next…
Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), the organisation charged with the task of ensuring adequate broadband speeds throughout the UK, is on the look out for a…
TalkTalk has experienced a surge in sign ups for its YouView-based TalkTalk TV service. The latest figures reveal that 167,000 customers signed up for digital…
Netflix has launched on Virgin Media with the cable operator offering six month of the on-demand service free to subscribers who sign up to Virgin…
TalkTalk has posted its latest quarterly results, which shows that many customers are signing up for superfast broadband. In the last three months, 47,000 customers…
Stirling Council has upgraded its internet connectivity in the region with the installation of a carrier-class microwave network. The implementation will give remote parts of…
Now TV has updated its apps for iOS and LG smart TVs and connected devices, allowing people to subscribe to the new Entertainment Pass. The…
The Xbox One will launch with an array of TV entertainment apps including 4oD and Demand 5 but not BBC iPlayer, ITV Player or Sky…
Virgin Media has announced that it will be launching a new up to 152Mbps service in 2014. There’s no official launch date for the new…
BT Sport has picked up the rights to broadcast all UEFA Champions League games for the next three years in a deal worth £900 million. …
Superfast Cornwall has announced that it will connect 30 per cent to ultrafast pure fibre connections by 2015. BT, responsible for rolling out the network,…
Why can buying a HomePlug be so complicated? Surely a 200AV plug is just a plug, don’t they all do the same thing? Why are…
South Norfolk is to get access to superfast broadband following the installation of a wireless transmitter in Wymondham. Wireless internet provider ThinkingWISP installed the mast…
Mobile operator EE has turned on its 4G network so that over 2,000 residents and businesses have access to superfast broadband connectivity in the rural…
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