Jun
22

Tesco selling UK’s first hybrid Freeview+ HD STB

The UK’s largest supermarket chain, Tesco, has begun selling the UK’s first high definition Freeview set top box with recording capabilities. It comes with a 320 GB hard drive allowing the.. more
Jun
22

ESPN America HD available on BSkyB

The sports channel provider ESPN will be launching an HD version of its ESPN America on Sky Sports, taking the total number of ESPN channels available in the UK to five... more
Jun
22

Elgato Eye TV ready for the iPad

Elgato has announced an Eye TV app especially for the Apple iPad, which is an updated version of the EyeTV app already being used by some iPhone users. This new app.. more
Jun
22

Buyers queue up for Five

RTL is looking to sell the terrestrial channel Five and it seems that despite RTL struggling to make the channel work, there are plenty of buyers taking a look at it including BSkyB, ITV, Time Warner and Endemol. Five has been losing money due to.. more
Jun
22

Online shopping boosted by World Cup

It seems that in May online shopping reached £4.5 billion or the equivalent of £73 person for every person in the UK. According to the retail sales experts IMRG Capgemini, online shopping is 22 per cent higher than the same period last year and up.. more
Jun
22

Apple iPhone iOS4 unleashed

As expected, yesterday Apple made the upgrade to its new iPhone operating system available to iPhone 3G and 3GS users, as well as those with an iPod touch. The move came three days ahead of the release of the fourth generation iPhone itself, which comes.. more
Jun
21

Virgin Media and Sky broadband rated top ISPs by public

It seems that the top two ISPs as recommended by the great British public are Sky and Virgin Media. So research by net promoter company Satmetrix claims. The firm’s survey covered a large swathe of 24,000 Europeans, and almost 9,000 folks from the UK, all.. more
Jun
21

Unlimited wi-fi comes to BT Broadband customers

BT has announced that its broadband user base will be granted unlimited access to the company’s many wi-fi hot-spots up and down the country. There are approximately 1.5 million of these across the UK, and previously BT Total Broadband customers were limited in the amount.. more
Jun
21

Confidential data goes on the run from Kent police

Kent police is taking what the Information Commissioner’s Office describes as “remedial action” after being found in breach of the Data Protection Act. This is after confidential documents containing personal information were stolen from the boot of an officer’s car, after it had been parked.. more
Jun
21

Apple’s secret malware patching tinkers

Apple has apparently stealth-released a patch for a Mac OS X malware threat. Security experts Sophos spotted this, and Graham Cluley wrote about it on his blog. The malware in question was the HellRTS trojan, and protection from it was added to Apple’s latest OS.. more