Broadband, TV and smart home technology
TalkTalk has completed the list of ISPs obeying a court order to block access to The Pirate Bay, while BT continues to negotiate with the…
Specialist marine engineers have been called in to fix a sub-sea fibre-optic cable damaged by copper cable thieves who couldn’t tell the difference. BT was…
The Cloud has upgraded its WiFi hotspots to support 5GHz traffic at up to 300Mbps for 802.11n WiFi kit and get users out of the…
Price: £284 plus shipping from Shop AMD Sapphire’s EDGE-HD3 Mini PC arrived this Spring, and we recently got hold of one for a closer look….
More than 10,000 broadband users were cut off by cable thieves who mistook an undersea fibre-optic cable for copper. Services were restored just over a…
SEX! SEX! SEX! That’s got your attention. Which is probably what Samsung thought when it wondered why the world isn’t a-buzz over motion control on…
Welcome to the latest instalment of #DigitalVoices, the cream of the comments from Recombu Digital’s stories. This week we’ve had some great reactions to news…
With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee giving most people a long weekend, we weren’t expecting to see many communities getting a broadband boost this week, but…
Hindi entertainment channel Sony South Asia Broadcasting has joined free satellite TV platform Freesat, after four years as a subscription channel on Sky. The family-friendly…
Residents of the Duddon Valley in Cumbria threatened with disconnection from the internet will be able to get Tooway satellite broadband from Bentley Walker. The…
Samsung and LG are hoping to muscle in Xbox and Playstation with smart TVs that can run console-style games streamed from the internet. The ‘cloud…
The controversial Communications Bill, described as a ‘snoopers charter’ has been put on hold until after the Olympics. A green paper of the bill has…
The UK Government is giving Scotland an extra £32 million for its superfast broadband rollout plans. This is on top of the £68.8 million given…
Netgear has announced the NeoTV ProHD, a streaming hub that lets you access the internet on your TV. It’s perhaps aimed at those with an…
If you were one of the millions who rushed out to buy a Freeview box or TV as the Digital Switchover loomed over your future…
Earlier I posted a quick round up of five of the better Freeview HD recorders we’ve seen recently. As if picking five warrant such an…
If you don’t want a Sky or Virgin Media TV subscription but fancy some of the functions that the Sky+HD and TiVo boxes give you,…
TalkTalk has taken the usage cap off its Essentials broadband and halved the price to £3.50/month for the first year. Combined with upfront line rental,…
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