Broadband, TV and smart home technology
UK ‘digital champion’ Martha Lane Fox is trying to drag Britain’s online homes and businesses into the connected world. Go On UK is the successor…
Can Netflix and LoveFilm break Sky’s TV movie monopoly? Media regulator Ofcom and major film studios disagree on a decision which could strike at the…
Upmarket department store John Lewis has launched its own-brand ADSL and fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband and phone packages. John Lewis broadband starts at £11/month for up-to-16Mbps ADSL…
Welcome to the Recombu Digital weekly Broadband Rollout Roundup. This week there’s been more activity from BT which is making headway with its £2.5 billion…
The weather didn’t bless Londoners with a perfect opportunity to enjoy the special light-show at the Crystal Palace transmitter for Digital Switchover in London, so…
TalkTalk boss Dido Harding has backed lawmakers’ calls for broadband providers to offer parental controls as standard. Harding said parents are already choosing TalkTalk’s HomeSafe…
Photographers can now upload their snaps and look through the viewfinder over a wireless network connection on Samsung’s latest compact cameras. The NX-range features WiFi…
South Yorkshire fibre broadband provider LittleBigOne will start offering up-to-100Mbps services from May 1. The fibre-to-the-cabinet provider has started taking pre-orders to customers who are…
Rural broadband and local TV will get a £300m boost from a fund created to help the elderly and vulnerable switch to digital TV. The…
Wispa’s ‘Up To’ campaign for pay-what-you-get broadband charging has won its first MP as its petition to Ofcom passed 600 signatures. Tim Farron, MP for…
4G in the UK is a way off and with the current debate between the networks and Ofcom – who gets what spectrum and how…
Sky Cloud Wi-Fi, the app for iOS and Android devices that lets you hook up to Sky’s 10,000-strong Wi-Fi hotspot network, is available to download…
Catch-up TV and on-demand TV are the favourite TV tech upgrades for Freeview viewers but 3D isn’t drawing a crowd. The free-to-air terrestrial TV platform polled…
A lucky thousand trialists on O2’s 4G mobile broadband trial in London have been enjoying speeds of 20-50Mbps, with bursts of up to 150Mbps. The…
The BBC is launching an extra high definition TV channel for the Olympics on Freeview HD to include some of the extra HD coverage going…
There’s a certain irony in the fact that fond memories of Ceefax are being discussed on Twitter. Back before the internet became a common household…
World-wide web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for the government to withdraw its proposal to extend online state surveillance. Sir Tim, who’s also a…
Internet service providers need to do more to protect children from pornography, according to a cross-party Parliamentary report published yesterday. The Parliamentary Inquiry into Online…
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