Broadband, TV and smart home technology
The UK has failed to make the world’s top 100 fastest broadband cities as our average broadband speeds fell last year. Akamai’s latest State Of…
Sky might be busy celebrating its healthy first quarter 2012 results but it’s had a spot of bother recently over a misleading Sky+ HD advert….
LG Cloud looks at first glance to be South Korea’s second favourites attempts to jump on the cloud services bandwagon; Google Drive recently launched, SkyDrive…
The UK’s smaller cities are to get a £50million investment in gigabit fibre-optic broadband from CityFibre and Fujitsu. The new infrastructure will allow ISPs to…
In the digital TV and broadband game of thrones Sky has posted results laying claim to the crown; following a record quarter of growth, more…
Mobile broadband speed claims can be even more vague than fixed broadband, but it’s useful to know what you can achieve, and if it matches…
Yesterday we talked about steps you can take to get a ‘true’ result from a broadband speed test. That story was more about optimising conditions…
Tesco’s £2.50/month broadband has been challenged by Direct Save Telecom’s £2.49/month offer – with a guaranteed price for 24 months. It’s an up-to-20Mbps connection with…
Livesport.tv, the net-based sports broadcaster, is all set to launch 50 channels on Facebook. The London-based company that’s part of the Perform Group, is set…
Smart TV features aren’t driving UK TV sales despite more than a quarter of Brits relying on on-demand TV for most of their viewing. More…
Though Katie Wright was the last to feel the wrath of Lord Sugar’s finger on The Apprentice, the former Amstrad boss is apparently pointing his…
TalkTalk is putting the kibosh on its UK call centres in Northampton and Lincolnshire, cutting hundreds of jobs in the process.This news comes as TalkTalk…
The Pirate Bay has responded to a UK court order forcing ISPs to block the site with a guide to proxy sites that won’t be…
The UK’s biggest broadband internet providers have been ordered to block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay by the High Court. The British Phonographic Industry asked…
While there’s many broadband speed test tools available, there’s a number of things you can do in order to get a ‘true’ broadband speed test….
If you want a hearing-aid compatible home phone that doesn’t look like a Fisher-Price toy, Doro’s Comfort phones mix big buttons and loud ringers with…
Google Drive launched last week, giving us 5GB of free cloud storage space for our Google Docs, pictures and up to 30 file types from…
Zen Broadband fibre-to-the-cabinet customers will get a free speed boost when it doubles most packages into the 80Mbps range from May 9. The Fibre Active,…
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