Broadband, TV and smart home technology
TalkTalk has had to make some changes to its broadband speed test tool after a complaint was sent to the Advertising Standards Authority. In December…
The ‘smart TV’ revolution of has turned TVs, Blu-ray players and digital TV boxes into connected devices capable of streaming video from the Web. It’s…
Proving that even the most high-tech manned outposts are still catching up with high definition TV, NASA has just completed an HD upgrade to the…
With online security, privacy and porn filters hot political potatoes right about now, Labour Shadow Secretary Jim Murphy has fired a shot across the bows,…
With the final of ITV’s Simon Cowell-created crowd fest racking up 11.9 million in the ratings, popular track identification service Shazam did alright out of…
New research carried out on behalf of Ofcom shows that ISPs are not always prompting new customers to do a line speed check before signing…
LG has thrown open the doors to the Smart World Campus, a new app development hub located in LG’s Research and Development centre in Seoul….
Sony has announced that the BBC Sport app will be served up on the Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) alongside BBC iPlayer and BBC News in…
ISPs can now sign up customers to 330Mbps fibre-to-the-premises broadband when a UK trial finishes on June 11. BT Openreach is launching FTTP in three…
It’s worse than we thought Jim; the arrival of 4G LTE could mean that Freeview would be unwatchable in one of ten UK homes. A…
As TalkTalk celebrates one year of its HomeSafe filter and of opt-in access to filtered sites becomes a possibility, the Open Rights Group takes a look…
Rural FTTP broadband project B4RN has raised enough money to complete the first part of its Gigabit core network. The Lancashire-based project has marked the…
BT’s Superfast Cornwall partnership with the EU and Cornwall Council is mainly about bringing up to 80Mbps Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) lines to the peninsula and the…
Voice control is one of the many (too many?) new features on show in this year’s high-end TV brands, offering us the chance to abandon…
The UK’s Broadband speeds are 42 per cent slower than advertised, claims a survey carried out by the Guardian. Last week the paper launched a…
Digital Voices this week has been a little quieter than the raging comment inferno of last week. No doubt everyone’s been making good on the…
Espoo’s finest phone manufacturer and former rubber tyre flogger Nokia is no longer funding the free London Wi-Fi service it jointly set up last year….
Welcome to the most recent edition of Recombu Digital’s Broadband Rollout Roundup. It’s been a good week for BT, with the company announcing that it…
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