Broadband, TV and smart home technology
It’s the last day of June and the last instalment of this month’s #DigitalVoices – Recombu’s round up of the best of the comments from…
It’s been another quiet week for BT on the fibre rollout front, with just 4,500 new connections announced for Eversley, Berkshire. This is on top…
The public consultation on the future of internet safety in the UK took a blow today as a document released by the Department for Education…
Samsung has announced that the BBC Sport App is now available on its Smart TVs. Though not in time to show Smart TV owners Nadal’s…
As the UK Government launches its public consultation on ISPs limiting access to adult content, TalkTalk’s headline-grabbing HomeSafe software has been breached. An extensive report by…
BBC Sport has launched yet another way to keep up with live sporting action in the form of a Facebook app. The app, similar to…
Next week Channel 4 will launch 4seven, a free on-demand catch-up service that’s coming to Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview as well as a pair…
Google TV finally touched down in the UK this week, with Sony announcing a Google TV set top box (the NSZ-GS7) with the promise of one…
While we were at Hyperoptic’s HQ in Shepherd’s Bush we were able to get a look at just how fast its 1Gbps service is. Have…
Off the back of yesterday’s news on the interactive Star Trek app landing on Virgin Media TiVo set top boxes, we had the opportunity to…
The UK Government’s Department for Education has today launched a public consultation on proposals to make ISPs block access to adult content as standard. In…
BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Everything Everywhere have signed up to a trial of ‘Next Generation Hotspots,’ which ought to do away with login splash pages…
Product: Power Ethernet T1000 Price: £111 each www.powerethernet.com Powerline networking devices have made it a lot easier to stream broadband around your home, but they…
Google Nexus Q, an Apple TV-esque service for Android phones has been outed ahead of the Google I/O 2012 conference in San Francisco. A YouTube…
TalkTalk has topped Ofcom’s league table for complaints for the first quarter of 2012. Taking in figures for the last quarter of 2011, published in…
It’s Smart TV Jim, but not as we know it. Virgin Media has announced the launch of the Star Trek app for its Virgin Media…
BT Wi-fi (with a lowercase ‘f’) is the new snappier and more self-explanatory name for BT Openzone. The 4 million strong public Wi-fi network has…
BT has announced the first eight locations in the UK which will be able to get ultra-fast 330Mbps broadband on-demand. Areas in High Wycombe, Bristol…
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