April 2012 Archive
30th April
- The Pirate Bay: Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media, O2, Orange and T-Mobile ordered to block site: UPDATED
- Broadband speed test: how to get a true result
- LG Cloud beta offers 50GB for users in Korea and the US
- Doro delivers loud big-button home phones without the senior stigma
- Google Drive Privacy Policy: Can Google steal your work?
- Samsung Galaxy S3 official press shot leaked?
- Apple and Samsung patent wars meeting May 21st and 22nd
- Zen’s fibre broadband ready for 80Mbps speed double in May
- Update: Vodafone: Everything Everywhere has over 83 per cent of 1800MHz spectrum
- Broadband speed: how to boost your connection
- 4G LTE in the UK will create 125,000 jobs, says Everything Everywhere
29th April
28th April
- Track N Go transforms your 4×4 into a snowmobile
- VW Polo R Line is a cheap-ish pretend GTI
- £50 a year for Virgin Media? – more than enough: Digital Voices 28/04/2012
27th April
- 4G UK firsts for Swindon and Southwark: Broadband Rollout Roundup 27/04/2012
- HTC One S Black vs Grey video
- Photos leak revealing Sony Mobile smartphone trio
- VW Golf Review
- Motorola DEFY mini unboxing video
- Panasonic ELUGA dL1 unboxing video
- Camera Comparison: HTC One S VS HTC One X
- LG Mobile launches mobile phone for the blind
- RIM to release first BB10 mobile phone by October
- 1 in 5 young drivers play Draw Something behind the wheel
- App Friday: Echoer for iOS
- Samsung Galaxy S3 pictures so far: Real deals or bogus phone-ys?
- Google Phone: the 2006 concept that never saw the light of day
26th April
- Google Drive privacy policy: Big Brother is watching?
- Ford Focus Review
- Next Samsung Galaxy S3 user manual leaks?
- Chevrolet Aveo Review
- Illegal downloading suspects won’t face official warnings until 2014
- Nissan GT-R Track Pack is a GT-R on ‘roids
- Sky Sports 3D new channel coming soon?
- 90 per cent of top websites aren’t secure say web safety campaigners
- Sky and TalkTalk launch 80Mbps fibre broadband on the quiet
- Fiat 500 Twinair Review
- Apple iPhone 4S Review: In Depth
- Sky Sports News is App of the Year at Carphone Warehouse Appys
- James May’s Science Stories for iOS and Android: interview and video
- Samsung Galaxy S3 quad-core Exynos benchmarked
- iPavement creates smart streets for networked cities: Digital Home
- Peugeot RCZ Review
25th April
- HTC One S VS Sony Xperia S
- Fetch TV loses Sky Go but finds a new home
- Best iPad newspaper apps
- Toyota iQ Review
- Gameloft tease blockbuster shooter N.O.V.A. 3 for iOS and Android
- White space wireless trial points the way to smart dustbins and faster rural broadband
- Apple WWDC confirmed for June 11th: iOS 6 annoucement?
- Honda Civic Review
- Easynet adds 80Mbps fibre broadband for business on Sky’s network
- HTC One V video review
- HTC One V Review: In Depth
- Exclusive Deal: Apple iPhone 4S 16GB and £75 M&S Voucher
- TiVo and superfast broadband bring Virgin Media’s customer numbers back in line
- Citroen DS3 Review
- The charger that cleans your mobile phone
24th April
- Jaguar XKR-S Convertible Review
- HTC One X VS Samsung Galaxy Note
- Netflix’s squares up to Sky and LoveFilm after great UK & Ireland launch
- HTC to bring chip production in-house for lower end mobile phones
- Next Samsung Galaxy S3 coming to O2
- Google: Responsible parents not new laws will keep children safe online
- HTC One S Review: In Depth
- HTC Media Link streams HD video from phone to TV: Smart TV Tuesday
- Sony Xperia P and Xperia U delayed until May 28th
- June launch for 330Mbps fibre-to-the-premises broadband says BT Openreach
- Google Drive cloud storage service expected to launch this week
- Joyride: Stunt driving with Terry Grant
23rd April
- 8.2m offline adults targeted by Go On UK partnership to join the connected world
- iPhone Nano rumour reappears, could arrive with the iPhone 5
- Netflix and LoveFilm success holds the future for Sky’s movie monopoly
- Vodafone confirms it will offer the next Samsung Galaxy
- Samsung Galaxy S3: rumour round-up
- Mozilla’s first smartphone expected late 2012
- How to root your Samsung Galaxy S2 (video)
- Samsung Mobile reveals teaser video on The Next Galaxy
- John Lewis own-brand DSL broadband, fibre and phone packages
- Samsung Mobile teases with ‘The Next Galaxy’ countdown timer
- Official Asus Transformer Pad TF300T UK pricing and retailers confirmed
21st April
20th April
- HTC One X and One S Media Link: Hands on
- App Friday: Official UEFA EURO 2012 with Orange
- Samsung Galaxy S3 video leaks: specs revealed
- 55 more BT exchanges good for fibre: Broadband Rollout Roundup 20/04/2012
- Allerta’s Pebble Smartwatch breaks Kickstarter history
- HTC One X battery life: The story so far
19th April
- Crystal Palace lit up for London Digital Switchover night: video
- TalkTalk boss backs automatic online parental controls by broadband providers
- Spurious Instagram Android app filled with malware could infect your phone
- VW Beetle Design 1.4 Review
- Half of UK adults have sent a sext: one in 10 to the wrong person
- Share pictures with WiFi from your camera with Samsung’s NX-range: Digital Home
- Samsung Galaxy S2 ICS update rolls out for sim-free phone: Orange and T-Mobile still waiting
- 100Mbps fibre broadband coming May 1 at South Yorkshire ISP Littlebigone.com
- Sony PlayStation Vita Review: In Depth
- Joyride: Fernando Alonso vs an ordinary bloke
- Apple New iPad 3 Review: In Depth
- Spotify for Android redesigned with ICS support: preview available
- Digital switch leaves £300m spare for faster broadband and local TV launch
- Wacom Bamboo Stylus Duo: hands-on pictures
- Apple iPhone 5 to feature a liquid metal alloy body and a June launch date?
- Samsung Galaxy S3 photos leak: incremental upgrade and 12MP camera?
- ‘Up to’ broadband campaign wins first Westminster support for fairer broadband charging
- Panasonic Eluga dL1 on sale now sim-free
- Kinect Star Wars App for Windows Phone: hands-on video
- 74 per cent of the UK want 4G now dammit, says Everything Everywhere’s YouGov survey
- Sky Cloud Wi-Fi app for iOS and Android now available for Sky Broadband customers
18th April
- Freeview viewers find iPlayer catch-up TV three times more attractive than 3D
- 2012 Olympics branding rights: posting photos to Facebook could infringe rules
- O2’s 4G superfast mobile broadband trial nets up to 150Mbps
- Barclaycard Paytag: NFC payments are accessible to mobile users from any phone
- BBC: extra Freeview HD Olympics channel
- Wednesday Deals: HTC Wildfire S, Apple Care for iPad and more
- HTC One X receives first European firmware update
- Ceefax mourned on Twitter: An analogue wake in pictures
- Web founder Berners-Lee says more state snooping will destroy human rights
- MPs’ say ISPs should make XXX material opt-in only
- Asus PadFone, Transformer TF700 and TF300: European pricing and availability
- Apple and Samsung to meet over patent disputes
- BT’s misleading Infinity broadband claims draw ineffectual punishment
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 production halted: quad-core processor incoming?
- Virgin Media showing BBC and Eurosport Olympic HD and 3D channels
17th April
- Is Apple iPad Mini production underway in China already?
- TalkTalk 80Mbps speed boost for North Yorkshire towns
- London Digital Switchover completes tonight: no TV from midnight to 6am
- Ofcom on ‘up to’ broadband: ‘Customers should do a speed test before signing up’
- LG 3D World and Livesport.tv apps for Cinema 3D: Smart TV Tuesday
- Cheapest line rental face-off: BT, O2, Orange, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk, Tesco, Virgin and more
- IKEA TV coming to UK by 2013: Flatpack ‘Uppleva’ digital TV furniture
- Nokia 808 PureView price revealed reaches pre-order status in the UK
- Android tightens grip on UK mobile market with 50% share: Samsung chases Apple
- Virgin Media pulls David Tennant Doctor Who ads
- Channel M for Manchester local TV channel shuts down
- Winners of Nokia Lumia 710 competition announced
- Rural broadband operator NextGenUs broken up in administration fire sale
- Microsoft reveals new Windows 8 Editions including Windows RT for tablets
- Campaign for Rural Broadband launched by BritORA
- HTC One S video review
- HTC One X: prices on UK networks and sim free
16th April
- Apple’s new iPad caught in Australian naming battle
- Up to ‘pay what you get’ broadband campaign: The industry responds to Wispa
- Virgin TV pirates’ ringleader stripped of more than £7,000 in illegal earnings
- HTC One X video review
- £16 HomePlug AV adapter slashes cost of building powerline network
- Samsung confirm Windows Phone 8 Apollo device before the year’s end
- Morgan Plus E: Tomorrow’s World meets the Antiques Roadshow
- Sony Ericsson Android 4.0 ICS update begins European roll-out
- Japanese satnav lets your order fast food on the move
- BT hires 150 engineers for fast fibre broadband rollout
- BT matches Virgin speeds with first 100Mbps office block fibre installation
- Samsung Galaxy S3 announcement coming May 3rd? London event planned
- TP-LINK TL-MR3040 turns your USB 3G dongle into a 150Mbps network
- Crackle app launches in the UK: On-demand movies and films from Sony
- Huawei Ascend G300 Review: In Depth
14th April
13th April
- EVLIIS lets you recharge your EV from a friend’s house, updates your personal bill
- Distracted drivers get a dressing down
- Will your smart kitchen appliances spy on you?
- More fibre arrives in West Yorks, County Durham and south Wales: Broadband Rollout Roundup
- Valve Steam Box: Why it would be amazing and why it wouldn’t
- Vodafone delivers Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy S2
- HTC One V vs Huawei Ascend G300 (Video)
- Samsung Galaxy Ace smartphone sells for £135 at Asda
- Plusnet fires up new Roundcube webmail
- App Friday: Budweiser Man of the Match
- Northern Ireland starts 6-month digital switch countdown
- Datsun name to return from the dead
- EU probes privacy issues for the ‘Internet of Things’
- Huawei Ascend G300 Unboxing Video
- Netflix app for Windows Phone hits UK and Ireland
12th April
- TalkTalk 80Mbps ‘no launch date yet,’ still available for pre-register
- BT Infinity 2 launches today: 76Mbps broadband from £26 a month
- Avanti developing satellite broadband suitcase portable router
- Sky 40Mbps fibre broadband goes live but no plans for 80Mbps
- Nokia Lumia 900 available in the UK on pre-order
- ‘Up to’ prices for ‘up to’ broadband campaign launched by rural broadband activist
- Motorola MOTOLUXE looks all white at Tesco
- Eminent e-Domotica Remote controls your home via phones and tablets: Digital Home
- Foxconn factory video shows Apple iPad 3 production
- Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R205: Connect up to 5 devices
- Nokia issues profits warning as smartphone sales halve
- US Department of Justice sues publishers and Apple over e-book price
11th April
- HTC One V Video: Hands-on
- HTC Sensation XE Review: In Depth
- Fast, faster, superfast, ultra-fast broadband – what do they mean?
- Gloucestershire and Herefordshire are broadband not-spots says survey
- Lenovo IdeaTab S2: Hands-on pictures
- BBC Sport launches on Virgin Media TiVo and connected Smart TVs
- BT Infinity doubles top speed to 76Mbps down & 19Mbps up
- London 2012 Olympic Games gets a broadband boost from Entanet
- £100 smartphone: Huawei G300 hands-on
- Rural wireless internet provider slams council over ‘unfair’ local broadband plan
- GoTab tablet PCs: Hands-on pictures
- BT Vision nabs FX UK, gets True Blood and Walking Dead
- BMW i8 Concept Spyder loses a roof, keeps eco credentials
- Almost three-quarters of British homes have a WiFi network
- BE Broadband: No fibre broadband in 2012 for everyone
- Nokia offers software update or handset exchange to fix Lumia 900 connection issue
- More Microsoft Office Mobile apps come to Symbian Belle smartphones
10th April
- Skype on the TV: how people use it
- Chevrolet Volt Vs Vauxhall Ampera: Which is the better buy?
- Mercedes SL65 AMG gets lighter, goes faster
- Petrol pump cameras set to deny uninsured drivers
- Nissan DeltaWing headed for Le Mans
- Mad Max to drive insane Gigahorse monster truck
- Eminent WEB-TV EM8100 and EM8102 coming to the UK: Smart TV Tuesday
- Vauxhall site makes sat-nav updates a breeze
- Buffalo Airstation Nfiniti adds Powerline network to compact WiFi router
- Emerg-e concept drags Infiniti from UK obscurity
- UK networks still undecided about 4G LTE
- RIM to encrypt apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10
- LG prepares D1L phone as a Samsung Galaxy S3 killer
- BT makes 80Mbps cable services available to all ISPs UPDATED
- iPhone 5 rumours: bigger screen, more memory, modified chip
- Yahoo applies for e-book advert patents
- Facebook buys Instagram photo sharing apps for $1bn
9th April
- Rinspeed Dock+Go aims to extend an EV’s appeal
- Self-driving cars tipped to arrive by 2025
- Reversing camera law is forced to back up
- Lit Motors C-1 strikes a balance between car and bike
- Audi RS5 gets quicker, sharper, cleaner for 2012
- Mazda CX-5 auto braking tech fitted as standard
- Toyota Yaris Hybrid is bad news for diesels, great news for your wallet
- Nokia 305, 306, 311 and 605 handsets on the way?
- Apple wins patent for the wireless synchronisation of a media player
- LG plans “thinking” handset and $100 smartphones
- Nokia touts its Where Platform to map developers
8th April
- Apple’s share price forecasted to be the first to break $1tn, overtakes Google
- BlackBerry “Playbook 4G” caught on camera, includes BBM?
- Advertising Standards Authority looks to investigate Apple’s iPad 4G claims in the UK
- HTC smartphones not to come with Beats headphones in the future?
7th April
- Images leaked of Nokia’s PureView Lumia Windows Phone?
- Update sent out for Instagram on Android, now supports tablets, wifi handsets and SD card installs
- First quarter financial results see HTC revenue drop 35%, Samsung profits double
- Google delays first “Nexus tablet” until July as it aims to slash the price?
- Curzon on Demand: Arthouse cinema on your iPad and Samsung Smart TV (video)
- Apple TV mark 3 review
6th April
- HTC One S video and first impressions
- HTC awarded patent similar to Face Unlock
- Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition hit the UK
- 184,000 BT fibre connections by Spring 2013: Broadband Rollout Roundup
- HTC One S: tips and tricks (video)
- App Friday: 0800 Wizard
- Ofcom plans to set mobile calls to 0800 numbers free
- Sky brings The Cloud: Free Wi-Fi for Sky Broadband subscribers (video)
5th April
- Virgin Media: Networks facing ‘explosion of demand’ for mobile data
- New Apple iPad vs. Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime
- James Law Cybertecture touchscreen mirror: Check Facebook while brushing your teeth
- How to get Sky Anytime+ on your Sky+HD box
- Motorola Gleam slims down to become Gleam+
- Sky and Eurosport to broadcast London 2012 Olympic Games in 3D
- 0800 numbers may be free for all and charges for 0845 and other special numbers simplified
- Google’s Project Glass imagines augmented reality glasses
- Paramount films coming to Google TV, Google Play and YouTube
- Digital UK: 400,000 can now get Freeview for the first time
- Nokia Lumia users in Finland get Nokia TV
- SwiftKey 3 Beta available now (video)
- Apple investigates new iPad 3 WiFi issues
- O2 launches community website
4th April
- Option Beemo: Quad-band LTE USB dongle, compatible with UK 4G
- Netflix UK heads LG’s 2012 Smart TV drive
- Online Safety Act 2012 Private Members Bill seeks to make online porn access opt in
- UK Government web surveillance plans delayed
- Skype: video calling commonplace by 2020
- The Cloud opened free to Sky’s unlimited broadband subscribers
- Digital Switchover in London ushered in by ICA’s Remote Control exhibition
- Blinkbox inks Disney deal: Toy Story and War Horse on-demand in the UK
- Samsung Galaxy S3 screens head to production
- Netgear Genie turns your iOS or Android device into a DLNA remote control
- Samsung Galaxy S2 plagued by ICS update problems
- LittleBigOne digital TV and 80Mbps broadband launches in South Yorkshire
- HTC One X, iPhone 4S, Sony Xperia S, Samsung Galaxy S2 and Nokia N8 camera comparison
- Scotland snow buries Plusnet and Entanet broadband
- Apple forced to offer two-year warranty in Europe
3rd April
- Curzon brings indie films to the small screens: Smart TV Tuesday
- Video: Orange’s best of Mobile World Congress part 2: Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 and others
- 53 per cent of UK viewers can’t remember what they watched last night
- Best mobile phones of 2012
- Motorola Razr Maxx confirmed: ‘longest talk time of any smartphone’
- BBC 24 HD Olympic channels coming to Sky and Freesat
- London Digital Switchover begins with BBC Two shutting down on Wednesday
- Gingerbread still dominates Android devices, ICS at less than 3 per cent
- iPhone PRO concept turns the iPhone 5 into a DSLR camera
- Google TV coming to Europe in September, says Sony
- Apple planning gaming controller for iPad and iPhone?
2nd April
- Samsung Galaxy S II Review: In Depth
- 26 per cent of the UK tweets while watching TV
- Freeview HD’s road to the future published
- York to become ‘fibre capital of the North’ with CityFibre investment
- BT, O2, Orange and TalkTalk don’t pass on wholesale line rental savings
- UK Government web snooping laws ‘China and Iran’-like
- HTC One X: tips and tricks (video)
- Unlimited broadband: Who is playing by the new rules?
- Shetlands connect to undersea fibre-optic cable
- Angry Birds to get TV series and movie spinoffs
- Lancashire community broadband project starts laying cable
- Samsung Galaxy Tab is only serious Apple iPad rival, claims former Apple boss
- Nokia Carla operating system revealed in leaked online images
- Nokia Design concept video predates iPhone and Android features
- Apple iPhone 5 to add 3D camera?