December 2013 Archive
31st December
- How to get cheaper broadband: Price rises for 2014
- Smartphones with built in DAB chips to save digital radio?
30th December
- BT opens Wales, central, east and southern England for ultrafast fibre on demand
- BT claims Sky and TalkTalk getting an unfair boost from Ofcom’s pricing rules
27th December
- BT faces fines if it fails to fix most phone and broadband faults within two days
- Payday loans company fined for spamming mobile owners
26th December
- Parrot Flower Power review: wireless plant monitor
- Nokia Camera app comes to non-PureView Windows Phone 8 Lumias in beta
25th December
24th December
- Copper cable theft killer RABIT alert tech offered to all ISPs by BT
- Upgraded BT Wi-fi app gives automatic hotspot sign-in with iOS
- One universal phone charger? Yes please!
- Introducing Gx-cellence: LG’s G Pro successor set for UK
- Oppo tease with suggested Find 7 smartphone specs
23rd December
- Freesat launches Children’s Christmas Showcase
- ISP porn filters block legitimate sex education sites
- British storms blast broadband in Scotland, Yorkshire and Humberside
- Pirate Bay hides in darkest Peru as it prepares ‘decentralised’ BitTorrent browser
- American Civil Liberties Union releases anti-NSA xmas vid starring Santa
20th December
- Stand out with these 6 unique headphones
- Life-size Lego hotrod is about as awesome as it gets
- Police seize over 700 car badges from Coventry thief
- 2 critically injured and 30 hurt after bus slams into tree
- Sky’s Wireless Booster blasts WiFi blackspots, free from December 26 – UPDATED
- London to get electric black cabs in 2014
- Car telematics box helps cops solve attempted murder case
- Traffic-warden attacked with hammer after parking ticket row
- Datawind UbiSlate 7Ci is the cheapest of tablets
- BA flyers can now leave their phones on during takeoff and landing
- Mighty Purse charges your phone on the go
- Lamborghini Huracán is the Gallardo replacement
- BBC to premiere children’s comedy show 4 O’Clock Club on iPlayer
- Sony, Samsung and LG smart TVs test BBC Connected Red Button for Christmas
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 20: Win an iPhone 5C, Samsung TV and Virgin driving experience
- Plusnet launches three month TV trial with YouView
- Forgot about Christmas? Beats By Dre going from Tesco Direct with a £40 discount
19th December
- Read your dog’s mind with No More Woof…
- Netflix adds multiple profiles, improves search on Android app
- Naked motorist caught masturbating while driving on motorway
- Ten of the craziest car stories ever
- Super Switch On Day sees rural fibre broadband reach 200,000 commercially unworthy Brits
- Samsung Galaxy S4 pink bagged exclusively by Phones 4U
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 19: Win an iPhone 5C, Samsung TV and Virgin driving experience
- Car of the Year 2014 shortlist revealed
- Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX is going for £169 until January 2, 2014
- TalkTalk Mobile Christmas 2013 best offers: Google Nexus 7 2013, SIM only and cheapest phone deals
- 4Music, Smash Hits and more land on iOS and Android with Box+ TV app
18th December
- Arsonist petrol bombs cars, accidentally sets fire to own head
- Young male drivers far more likely than females to have penalty points
- Conspiracy nuts confuse BT customer management for NSA/GCHQ backdoor
- Don’t text while drunk — it’ll cost you millions
- Mini John Cooper Works Concept reveals a sporty number
- Cab driver banned after he is caught speeding 7 times in 8 days
- Sitting in traffic costs families £146 per year
- Driving test reforms put on ice amid youth employment fears
- Pensioner kills pensioner after disabled bay argument
- Mourinho supercar teased by Mansory and Raff House
- Police warn of jaywalking otters
- How long until I’m sober enough to drive?
- How to give TalkTalk TV a Christmas boost
- Man drives 2 miles with injured cyclist on back of car, then dumps body in woodland
- Userve launch wireless broadband from Shropshire TV transmitter
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 18: Win a £50 Currys voucher
- Netflix to premiere The Square worldwide on January 17
- LG G Flex in UK stores this friday, but you can’t actually buy it
- Sky Sports Day Pass comes to Apple TV
17th December
- Xbox One vs PlayStation 4: Which one should I buy?
- Kate and William’s bulletproof Bentley is royally tough
- Nissan creates custom scent for electric car emissions
- NSA can spy on any smartphone — even with encryption
- £15m Greater Manchester fibre broadband deal to reach 4% more homes
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 17: Win a Sony Xperia Z1
- EE’s special relationship with AT&T will see UK travellers getting 4G speeds abroad
- Tesco drops price of Motorola Moto G to £99. Can you say bargain? – UPDATED
- Samsung’s GamePad and Mobile Console app summons Sony Xperia Play’s ghost
- Amazon Studios to film original dramas and comedies in 4K
- Awox plays a little light (LED) music
- Better Call Saul coming to Netflix in 2014
- Android 4.3 Jelly Bean coming to Sony Xperia Z1 and Z Ultra
16th December
- Rara for BMW streaming music service hands on
- Kobo Arc 10HD Review: In Depth
- Phones on planes may be allowed after all
- McLaren to get rid of wiper blades
- Samsung Galaxy Core Advance makes 4.7-inches less of a handful
- 2014 Mercedes C-Class details and pictures revealed
- Samsung boss tells his staff they must try harder
- Carvana unveils used car ‘vending machine’
- Low-level cycle lights given the green light
- Nokia Lumia 2520 Review: In Depth
- Spotify bringing Led Zeppelin to 2013 LG Smart TVs
- EE warns rural 4G rollout could stop if fees rise
- Porn protection package BT Parental Controls turned on
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 16: Win an Xbox One
- Broadcasters pan Ofcom over white space disruption to Freeview
- Discovery to launch new mystery and suspense channel
15th December
14th December
13th December
- Lamborghini Huracan set to replace Gallardo
- Calling 0800 numbers from mobiles to be free
- Sony USB On The Go lets you upgrade mobile space in an instant
- Instagram Direct now specifically sends snaps… direct
- Drink-driver who killed friend shifted blame onto victim
- Driver calls police to say he is out of fuel and drunk
- EE and BT face an autumn flood of broadband user woes
- Google driverless cars to have ears, patent suggests
- BT grovels as TV complaints surge to 10 times Sky and Virgin’s moans
- Chainsaw-wielding man chases ice-cream van down street
- Copper thieves cut off Sky and BT broadband in west London
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 13: Win a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini
- Plymouth launches £330,000 Get Online programme
- YouView updates Android app
- Plusnet drop unlimited broadband and calls bundle to £1.99 per month
12th December
- Judge overturns UK ban on HTC One smartphones
- Sex vs Smartphone: almost half of ladies favour mobile over man
- Asus Padfone Mini: a Taiwanese tech-two-for-one
- Porn filters snatch safe sex ed sites on 34 per cent of UK WiFi hotspots
- How do you finish The Fast & The Furious 7 movie without Paul Walker?
- Meet the bus that’s also a transparent LCD display
- BMW M3 and M4 offer 431hp of German hooning potential
- Stop connecting to BT FON at home with the BT Wi-fi for Android app beta
- RIP Rip-off Britain? UK broadband and mobile deals cheapest in Europe
- Will Arnett and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul star in Netflix exclusive Bojack Horseman
- Lovefilm reportedly resurrecting Ripper Street after BBC cancellation
- Spotify brings free streaming to iOS and Android…well, sort of
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 12: Win one of three Plants vs. Zombies 2 goodie bags
11th December
- Yellow Jacket is a shockingy good smartphone stun-gun
- Police sacked over car-buying scam
- ‘Lamborghini’ Sogna is £2 million of sheer unique ugliness
- Apple doles out Christmas gifts with 12 Days gift app
- Budget Android phones to go 64bit and rock 4G
- Driving with a hangover just as dangerous as when driving drunk
- Timetable for Free WiFi on First Great Western trains announced: ETA June 2014
- Nokia planning Normandy assault on Android market
- Vauxhall VXR8 GTS is the most powerful car for less than £60,000
- Boris Johnson vows to make cycling safer for Londoners
- Sony Entertainment TV joins BT
- F1 engine dispenses coffee in V8 and V12 flavours
- Call for HS2 money to be spent on fibre broadband for all
- Olympic East Village gets free fibre broadband gold medal from Hyperoptic
- Man sends car across raging river on zip line
- City of London Police seize pirate websites
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 11: Win a £25 iTunes voucher
- Cornish residents unimpressed by BT’s 36 foot erection
10th December
- Hyundai i20 WRC car unveiled
- The web not-spot where phone use is outlawed
- Amazon app blocks playtime until homework’s done
- Survey suggests smart-addiction not-so-strong among the youth
- AVG app ends online ad tracking
- Top 12 tablets for Christmas
- 10 most memorable Nurburgring moments
- Talk about unlucky! Car hits deer, which then hits jogger
- Virgin Media pinches Netflix speed king crown back from BT
- BT Sport announces February 2014 fixtures inc Arsenal v Manchester United
- Hyundai ‘N’ high-performance brand to tackle GTIs and STs
- Broadband from space: Inmarsat satellite launch shoots for 50Mbps
- Grounded boy, 13, dies after sneaking out to go on joyride
- Voice controls will turn YouView apps into a TV lifeline for the blind – UPDATED
- Rural fibre broadband project B4RN shrug off cable equipment theft
- Netflix heads to LazyTown with the Powerpuff Girls
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 10: Win a £25 Apple App Store voucher
- Connecting Cheshire details first communities to get fibre
9th December
- Kia boss Thomas Oh: Nissan got it wrong
- Armenia enters smartphone and tablet age with Armphone and Armtab
- Smart Pants accessory protects your home button from accidental fondling
- Constantly checking your phone makes you stressed, finds report
- Leonardo Di Caprio enters Formula-E with Venturi racing team
- Mercedes-Benz Vision Gran Turismo becomes an unofficial reality
- New BBC HD Channels: Can I get them on Freeview and YouView?
- Honda Civic Type-R First Drive Review
- Boffins make camera that can see through fog
- Porsche 911 Turbo S Review
- Smartphone addiction, aka nomophobia, plagues the nation
- Dutch doctors spread superbugs by smartphone shocker!
- Five new BBC HD channels coming to Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview, YouView and Freesat
- Government to hand out £3,000 in broadband grants for small business
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 9: Win a 16GB Apple iPad Air
- UK storms flood Scotland and England with broadband outages
- Over 30 more communities in Devon and Somerset to get superfast broadband
8th December
7th December
6th December
- Three customers to get free bump to 4G by Xmas
- Microsoft Xbox Music lets you stream tunes to mobiles
- McLaren P1 joins the sub-7-minute Nurburgring club
- Samsung working on transparent, rear-touch smartphone display
- Number of fatal crashes has halved in past 10 years
- Voxan Wattman is the most powerful electric motorcycle on earth
- YouView adds support for USB keyboards and zooms in on accessibility
- Woman unknowingly live-tweets husband’s car crash death
- Police naming and shaming drink drivers
- The million pound cost of upgrading 10,000 premises to superfast broadband
- Sky vs Virgin Media: TV, broadband and phone
- NSA monitoring five billion mobiles every day!
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 6: Win an HTC One
- Sky more likely to embrace 4K broadcasts than BBC
- Wuaki.tv to launch on LG smart TVs
- British Gas Hive Review: Control your central heating with your phone
5th December
- Honda uses airbags to make smartphones smashproof
- Beats Audio music streaming to knock spots off Spotify
- Samsung to release fingerprint-scanning phones?
- President Obama not allowed to use iPhones
- Recombu Winter Wonderland Day 5: Win a Nokia Lumia 520!
- Nokia Lumia 1520 Review: In Depth
- Chevrolet to exit Europe and UK by 2016
- Ford Mustang pics and specs revealed
- UK to be the world leader of driverless cars
- Electric car owner arrested for ‘stealing’ 5 cents of electricity
- Tax discs to be phased out after 93 years
- Drop Caller ID charges, MPs tell BT, Virgin Media and other ISPs: UPDATED
- Ex-Vertu designer working on luxury smartwatch
- Doro Liberto 810: the Swede set to simplify smartphones
- Warnings of coastal floodings hit the north and east of England
- UK government confirms plans to block extremist websites
- Formula-E calendar and racing schedule revealed
- LG puts AllJoyn smartphone control into smart TVs
- Netflix rebuilds the House of Cards for a second exclusive series
4th December
- Christmas TV schedule 2013: What’s on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk TV?
- TalkTalk’s Christmas YouView upgrade window is still open
- Mazda 3 Review: Silverstone track test
- Rural broadband trial fund offers £10m for fibre, 4G and wireless
- LG G Pad 8.3 Review: In Depth
- Sky Go Tablet for Android slabs touches down in Google Play
- Study reveals top car colour choice of men and women
- Range Rover vs BMW X5: Which 4×4 is best?
- Judge reveals launch date for HTC One’s successor, codenamed
- Huawei abandons America after spying smears
- Red Bull X2014 is the craziest car you will see this year
- Three scraps roaming fees in the US, starts 4G network
- Science boffins use radiation pulse gun to stop a car in its tracks
- Wrap your eyeballs around pictures of the new 2015 Ford Mustang
- Britain’s coastline gets its biggest dose of EE 4G yet
- Recombu Winter Wonderland: Day 4 – Win a TomTom XL Classic Sat Nav
- EE to have 4G running in 160 UK towns and cities by Christmas
- Sky launching Sky Movies rental service for non subscribers
3rd December
- New HTC One Dual SIM doubles your pleasure
- PowerUp 3.0 is a smartphone-powered paper plane
- BlackBerry CEO: “We are still very much alive”
- Mobile users to get protection against phone thieves who rack up huge bills
- Oppo N1’s rotating camera lets you take 13-megapixel selfies
- TalkTalk offers half-price Entertainment TV Boost and PictureBox movies for two months
- Ford Mustang European launch confirmed
- Proxy and DNS workarounds to be foxed by BT’s Parental Controls porn block
- Audi Q1 greenlit, proves small is the new big
- Archos 40 Titanium Review: In Depth
- Men more likely to pass driving test first time
- Game of Thrones and other HBO shows head to Google Play
- 10 ways to winter-proof your car
- Dreamworks’ Turbo spin-off FAST hitting Netflix on Christmas Eve
- Cheap mobile broadband: MobiData uses Three’s ultrafast network to deliver low cost data
- Amazon Cloud Player available in BMW and Mini Cooper vehicles
- Airfy looks to develop ad-funded smart WiFi hotspot
- Recombu Winter Wonderland: Day 3 – Win a portable speaker, Camera Demon & Swissvoice Station
- UK leading Europe in superfast broadband rollout
- Sky Fibre Hub is first to allow fibre broadband self-install
- Sky+ iOS and Android apps update, let you queue On Demand downloads to your Sky+HD box
2nd December
- iPhone 5S outselling 5C by three to one
- LG G Flex ‘banana phone’ boomerangs its way to Europe
- Diesel engines blamed for 11,000 lung cancer deaths
- Recombu Winter Wonderland: Day 2 – Win Next vouchers worth £200, courtesy of BT
- Urbee 2 is a hyper-efficient 3D printed car
- Ex-BT employee enables copper cable criminals, becomes a cropper
- Police offer £200 reward to tell on drink drivers: Would you grass up your mates?
- Lamborghini Antares smartphone costs how much?!
- Free Tesco Broadband offer extended, line rental saver coming soon
- VW e-up price and specs revealed
- Zen Internet increases download allowances
- Isle of Wight lists superfast broadband targets for BT
- Volvo says self-driving cars to arrive by 2014
- Unofficial YouView remote record workaround for Windows revealed
- Free Pornhub clips delivered by Chester Cathedral’s WiFi
- Vodafone £120 Freebee Rewardz Cinema Pass rivals Orange Wednesdays