Posted on 18 February 2012. Tags: Broadband, Sky+, tesco, Virgin Media
While companies like Virgin Media are trying to capture broadband market by offering higher and better surfing speed, Tesco is looking the other way. The retailing giant is planning to use price factor and started offering low price broadband connection to its Clubcard loyalty scheme members. These customers may opt for ‘unlimited’ broadband package at [...]
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Posted in Business News, Internet, News
Posted on 27 June 2011. Tags: bbc, Internet, Microsoft, Nokia, Sky+, WI-FI
A Microsoft led consortium has embarked upon a new kind of trial in Cambridge, involving next generation Wi-Fi system. The USP of the new trial is its ability to use 150 MHz spectrum, which is maintained by terrestrial Televisions for avoiding signal interference. However, now this unused spectrum or “White Space” as it is generally [...]
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Posted in Business News, Future Technology, Internet, Microsoft, News
Posted on 21 April 2011. Tags: bt, customer service, Internet, ofcom, Sky+, Virgin
You don’t need me to tell you how frustrating it is when the internet grinds to a halt. It’s happened to us all at some point and usually when were booking holiday tickets, slaying a dragon or streaming a film. With a new internet provider popping up every few days it’s hard to know which [...]
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Posted in News, Web and Software
Posted on 07 October 2010. Tags: Broadband, bt, Fibre optic broadband, firbe lines, ofcom, Sky+, TalkTalk, Virgin Media
It seems Ofcom have plans our heavily BT dominant broadband land, after announcing that we are a long way off having great broadband in the UK. It seems Ofcom are going to be picking on BT to achieve this by attempting to get them to do the two following things: First, Ofcom want BT to [...]
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Posted in Broadband, Business News, Internet, News
Posted on 28 September 2010. Tags: 3D Movies, 3D TV, 3dtv, Films, on demand, Samsung, Sky+, Virgin, Virgin Media
Virgin Media has announced today the launch of a 3D-TV service to their customers, getting ahead of the game against Sky who are expected to release their own version in the coming future. The service simply called 3D Movies on Demand is powered by Filmflex where movies can be rented for 24 hour periods for [...]
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Posted in 3D TV, Home Entertainment, News, Virgin
Posted on 01 September 2010. Tags: bt, bt vision, sky movies, sky sports, Sky+
If you thought paying a subscription fee to watch Sky Sports and Sky Movies was a causing a pinch in your pockets, it has been announced today that for all you avid Sky Sports and Sky Movies customers, Sky Sports customers face a £3 per month subscription increase from tomorrow, Sky Movies customers being hit [...]
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Posted in Business News, General, Home Entertainment, News, Web and Software
Posted on 20 August 2010. Tags: 3dtv, bugworld, Sky+, Spiders
An estimated 50% of women and 10% of men have at least mild Arachnophobia symptoms. But don’t worry. 3D TV is here to save the day. Liverpool’s BugWorld Experience uses Sky’s 3DTV technology to project giant realistic spiders in order to provide a psychological method known as flooding or exposure which means that you confront [...]
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Posted in DVD Players, News
Posted on 10 August 2010. Tags: Apple, at&t, Iphone, Sky+, TV, u-verse
AT&T have announced that its ‘AT&T U-verse’ mobile app is now available at the app store. The app gives U-verse subscribers the ability to download and watch TV on their iPhone; making AT&T ‘the first TV provider to offer an integrated mobile app that allows you to download and watch (selected) shows.’ The U-verse Mobile app [...]
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Posted in Iphone, News