Broadband, TV and smart home technology
The Pirate Bay has been controversially unblocked in India, where citizens can now access the torrent tracker along with other video and file sharing sites….
DVDO Air, a wireless HDMI connector, launches next month and promises to banish those pesky HDMI cables to the back of a dusty drawer. Allowing…
HD movie fans will be able to convert their collections to digital for watching anywhere using the Ultraviolet personal film library later this year. UltraViolet…
Bradford’s National Media Museum has started offering free tickets to see the Olympics in Ultra High Definition – AKA Super Hi Vision – while London…
If you thought that cable thieves nicking copper out of your street only affected your ability to surf the web think again. Residents of the…
Intense competition between UK broadband providers prevents them throttling popular video services like BBC iPlayer, Virgin and BT claim. The UK’s leading ISPs say there’s…
BT’s Pirate Bay block has already been breached according to figures released from The Pirate Party. On Tuesday BT blocked access to The Pirate Bay,…
Sky’s Now TV broadband entertainment service will be a ‘semi-skimmed’ package of films, sports and on-demand entertainment when it goes live this summer. Now TV…
Communications minister Ed Vaizey has riled-up UK mobile operators by accusing them of delaying the UK’s auction of frequencies for 4G mobile broadband. Recombu’s phone…
4G mobile broadband in the UK will initially be great, but will grind to a slowdown as takeup increases, claimed Sky’s Chief Operating Officer Mike…
Energy giant EON will launch its Smart Plus Monitor service in the UK next week, putting central heating controls at your fingertips. Using apps on…
It seems obvious when you hear it: combine powerline home network adapters with home energy management and control. Amazingly, Switzerland’s myStrom is the first to…
Veo is an amazing-looking service that’s perhaps best described as a Flipboard or Pulse-style service but for video on demand. Aggregating content from multiple platforms…
Experimental broadband TV arts portal The Space could stay on as a state-funded free arts channel. The Space is an on-demand video library launched for…
Auctions of radio frequencies for 4G mobile will take place before the end of 2012 despite the best efforts of Britain’s mobile phone operators, communications…
BT has dropped a few hints of its vision of the future for UK connected homes and potentially its own BT Vision service today. Speaking at…
BT took its time in blocking the Pirate Bay but it has finally complied with the court order and shuttered access to the site. The…
More than half a million UK homes are losing out on roughly 4Mbps of broadband speed according to new research from TalkTalk. The loss of…
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