February 2014 Archive

28th February

• Vodafone slashes PAYG prices this weekend
• Nvidia shows off slick new Tegra tablet with stylus and LTE
• Samsung Galaxy S5 rip-off in as little as 2 days
• Skoda VisionC is a bright green five-door coupe concept
• Sky drops fees for BBC and ITV appear in Sky Guide
• Alfa Romeo Mito and Giulietta Quadrifoglio Verde details and images
• Virgin Media kills peak time download caps, P2P still throttled
• BT locks horns with Sky and TalkTalk over broadband prices
• Samsung Galaxy S5 pre-registration already smashing Galaxy S4 figures
• Three: Free 4G for everyone, provided you can get it
• VW T-Roc is a high-riding SUV concept
• Driver blows 0.00 on breathalyser, still gets arrested
• Vodafone teams with MoneyGram for fast mobile fund transfer
• Drivers waste £2billion a year by failing to shop around when renewing insurance
• Netflix catches Pokémon: Black & White series and movies
• McLaren 650S price and performance figures revealed
• MWC 2014 winners: the coolest mobile tech coming in 2014
• Coventry businesses and organisations to get vouchers to install better broadband
• Herts and Bucks villages get upgraded to fibre
• Learner driver fined for doing 36mph in a 30 zone
• VIDEO: Amazon revives BBC’s Ripper Street as it kills Lovefilm Instant brand
• Parents and kids get Web Safe with Virgin Media’s filtering controls
• Virgin Media fires up 152Mbps ultrafast and broadband boosts for all

27th February

• Google Now Launcher available for all Nexus phones
• What is the Blackphone and how can it keep you secure?
• Volvo Concept Estate concept interior is pretty enough to lick
• 4K Ultra HD media streamer announced by ZTE at Mobile World Congress
• Kia Ceed GT details, images and price
• Creepy #WorstFavour Halfords advert given all-clear despite complaints
• BT YouView adds HD versions of TLC, Discovery, Animal Planet and British Eurosport
• Huawei MediaPad M1 hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Huawei MediaPad X1 hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Driver who claimed seatbelt ‘hurt her breasts’ escapes fine
• BBC head ponders separate licence fee for iPlayer
• Win a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini with O2
• BT Sport scores again with live Bundesliga football, exclusive until 2017
• TalkTalk customers go wild for free phone privacy features
• Honeywell Evohome smart energy launches in the UK: Power at your fingertips

26th February

• Hit the North: BT beats back flood damage in Manchester, West Yorkshire and Lancashire
• Good Deal: Tesco Mobile brings together Hudl and smartphones in one package
• HTC M8 dual camera technology on show at MWC
• Insurers slapping black box motorists with fines
• Driver caught taking pet lion for a spin
• Nissan GT-R Convertible is so wrong yet so right
• Control your home with this Bluetooth device and a smartphone
• Kroes calls for Europe to be in driving seat for 5G by 2015
• M25 cyclist led onto motorway by phone app
• Samsung Galaxy S5 hits pre-order for £600
• Vauxhall Astra VXR Extreme details and images
• EE teams up with Wembley

25th February

• Ford opts for BlackBerry’s QNX platform for its in-car “Sync/MyFord Touch”
• Meet Yotaphone, the dual-screen smartphone that’s also an eReader
• BlackBerry Q20 announced: 3.5-inch touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard
• 2014 Citroen C1 details and images
• England to get lion’s share of £250m extra rural broadband cash
• Facebook shuts down unloved ‘@facebook.com’ email service
• Hands-on with Jolla Phone’s nifty swipey Sailfish
• HTC Desire 816 and Desire 610 announced: Quad-core heroes for the masses
• Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake is a 550PS supercharged estate
• BT announces new slimline YouView+ box: Free for new customers or a £35 upgrade
• LG L-Series 2014 range hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Car hire prices spike during summer holidays
• Microsoft outlines details of Windows Phone 8.1 update
• Samsung Galaxy S5 coming soon to Three, EE, Vodafone, Giffgaff and Phones 4u – UPDATED
• HTC Connect signs up Netgear Push2TV for putting mobile video on your TV
• Lovefilm signs Arrow, The Following, Hostages and Revolution for Amazon Prime Instant Video
• Superfast broadband reaches Suffolk towns of Southwold and Reyton

24th February

• Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Galaxy S4
• Nokia Asha 230 hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Samsung Galaxy S5 launches (MWC 2014)
• Samsung Gear Fit joins the Gear 2 smartwatch family (MWC 2014)
• Increased speed limit leads to fewer road accidents in Denmark
• Huawei’s E5786 MiFi is the key to EE’s 300Mbps 4G – and it uses QR CODES
• SwiftKey launches on Nokia X app store
• Mozilla’s next Firefox OS phones will run on hardware costing just $25
• New smartphone app helps motorists contest parking fines in California
• Huawei Ascend G6 4G hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Is Three cutting unlimited tethering to 2GB per month?
• Motorist’s BMW X5 exploded into flames as he was driving at 70mph
• Motorist with 54 points legally allowed to drive
• ‘Revolutionary’ Hyundai Intrado uses plane wings for inspration
• 2014 Ford Focus details and images
• Cameron’s Cabinet: PM switches on superfast broadband in Oxfordshire
• Huawei launches wearable tech, plus 4G phones and phablets at MWC
• LG G2 Mini hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Hennessey Venom GT breaks production car top speed record
• Nokia XL hands-on review (MWC 2014)
• Northallerton visitors to get free WiFi while they shop
• Wireless broadband comes to Lincoln courtesy of Quickline
• Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 unleashed (MWC 2014)
• Sony’s Xperia M2 boasts affordable 4G (MWC 2014)
• Wearable cameras and phone booms: Sony’s MWC 2014 Xperia accessories
• Three new Nokia X Android phones unleashed at MWC 2014
• Microsoft to launch Xbox One remote in March
• Sony launches 5.2-inch Xperia Z2 smartphone (MWC 2014)
• Your voice to replace PIN, fingerprint and iris scanning

23rd February

• Jolla launches Sailfish OS 1.0 ahead of imminent global rollout
• Samsung unleashes new Gear 2 smartwatches (MWC 2014)

21st February

• BT engineers going door to door in battle with flood damage
• Fiat Panda Cross is one badass 4×4
• Britain has busiest and safest roads in Europe
• Google’s ‘Project Tango’ smartphone will map the world around you
• VIDEO Google Chromecast review: The no-brainer big-screener
• Amazon’s Prime Instant Video: What’s going to happen to my Lovefilm Instant subscription?
• Amazon Instant Video announced: Pay per view movies and TV a la iTunes
• What to expect from Windows Phone’s Cortana
• Iris recognition security hits Alcatel tablet
• Audi TT design sketches emerge
• Motors TV joins Arqiva Connect TV
• Amazon announces Prime Instant Video, the new name for Lovefilm Instant
• Canterbury Cathedrdal puts a stop to worshippers searching for porn in the pews
• Rage Gaming: Double-hard mobile games like Flappy Bird
• Three network users get a 4G happy Friday feeling
• Strong support from businesses for gigabit broadband in Peterborough

20th February

• LG G2 not-so-Mini phone unveiled
• When budget goes bad: Why you shouldn’t buy the Nokia Asha 503 (Video)
• Local TV stations shunted behind Horror Channel on Virgin EPG
• Virgin Media WiFi arrives in White City, Leyton and 8 more London stations
• Acer launches wallet-friendly Liquid smartphones
• ‘Carguments’ increase in winter as stress levels rise
• Microsoft SkyDrive relaunches as OneDrive from today
• More than six in ten drivers admit to eating at the wheel
• Demand 5 launches on Sony TVs
• Vauxhall Adam Rocks our world
• Nearly 2 million Brits sign up for EE 4G, broadband figures continue to grow
• Birmingham housing association residents to get free Wi-Fi
• Samsung links up with Mubi to bring curated movies to smart TVs and Blu-ray players
• Say what? Facebook buys mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $16 billion

19th February

• Audi S3 Cabriolet is a 300PS drop-top
• Aston Martin V8 Vantage N430 and DB9 Carbon revealed
• First customer buys house with smartphone
• “Don’t be a Glasshole”: A list of dos and don’ts direct from the Google Glass community
• Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds firms can apply for £3,000 broadband vouchers
• FIA legalises donuts in Formula 1
• EE 4G touching down at Heathrow, Gatwick and 16 other UK airports
• Nokia’s final Android tease before MWC launch?
• South Yorkshire’s superfast shambles Digital Region shutting down for good
• Air pollution more dangerous than smoking
• Go Ape boss forks out £30,000 for fibre optic broadband
• Hyperoptic launches gigabit fibre broadband in Reading, Bristol and Cardiff
• HTC’s ‘All New One’ launch confirmed for March 25
• Kindle Fire HD gets ESPN UK app

18th February

• Gigabit vs Megabit: Fibre providers lure ex-BT staff for broadband battle plans
• Samsung introduces the Galaxy Core LTE
• 2014 Alfa Romeo Giulietta details, images and price
• Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Review: In Depth
• Unmanned CCTV cameras to enforce motoring offences
• Jimmy Carr celebrates Cornwall’s 85 per cent superfast broadband coverage
• Introducing the 376mph jet-powered Shockwave truck
• Apple planning to ‘move into electric cars’
• Range Rover Evoque Autobiography Dynamic focusses on performance
• BT scores against Sky in Court of Appeal football ruling
• Huawei rips on Siri to tease MWC 2014 goodies
• Japanese public broadcaster NHK shoots Winter Olympics in 8K
• LG L Series III will launch at Mobile World Congress
• Will the HTC M8 mini feature a 4.5-inch display and metal body?
• Google plans 10Gbps retail broadband in USA

17th February

• Nokia Lumia 1320 Review: In Depth
• Sky whips the bails off ITV with live Indian Premier League cricket steal
• BMW 2 Series Active Tourer is a five-seater MPV
• Line rental increases expected after BT Openreach raise prices
• Driving instructor leads police on a 120mph chase
• McLaren 650S packs a 650PS punch
• Zero Scooter looks like a Vespa, goes like a Segway
• Man smashes up a car in revenge… before realising it was the wrong car
• VW Scirocco and Scirocco R go under the knife
• Virgin Media sells Premier Sports cheaper than Sky
• Apple ‘iWatch’ may predict heart attacks and save your life
• Quickline expands wireless broadband to Doncaster
• BT Sport revs up its MotoGP coverage with preview show
• Bute gets broadband boost
• Google adds a ‘relationship’ voice search option for Android users
• Sony Xperia G brings premium class at a mid-price budget

14th February

• Pensioner falls out of car to his death
• Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition Review: In Depth
• 2014 Renault Twingo is one cute city car
• TalkTalk TV offers 3 months of free PictureBox movies to new customers
• Best dating apps for Valentine’s Day
• Virgin Media boasts 2 million TiVo homes, adds just 1,000 TV punters in the last quarter
• 3D printed edible Mustang makes one delicious Valentine’s gift
• Google opens the floodgates for Chromecast app bonanza
• This affordable Nokia Lumia 1320 phablet is hitting stores soon
• Peugeot 108 details and images
• More free WiFi for London: Brent, Harrow, Barnet and Haringey
• Virgin Media stays in third with 4.5 million broadband customers
• ‘Fish on Wheels’ robot car lets your pet fish drive
• 10-year-old caught driving parent’s car, says he’s ‘a dwarf who forgot his driver’s licence’
• Nokia is seeing green ahead of this year’s Mobile World Congress
• Sky TV pirates sunk by BBC investigation
• Plusnet cuts fibre broadband and calls
• MWC 2014: All the news and rumours
• Sony’s budget Xperia to take on Moto G
• 4K Skype session lets Somerset MP see the benefit of 700Mbps fibre broadband
• Sky expands On Demand box sets

13th February

• LG G Pro 2 goes official in Korea with upgraded features and new photos modes
• Jaguar F-Type Shooting Brake is a British Ferrari FF
• Watch eight Corvettes disappear into a 40ft-wide sinkhole
• Apple iPhone 6 photos reveal much bigger screens
• Motorola Moto X Review: In Depth
• Skoda Octavia Scout details and images
• Mystery McLaren 650S positioned between 12C and P1
• Android apps coming to Windows and Windows Phone?
• BBC launches web-only episode of Inside No.9
• Britons fear missing on their favourite TV shows
• The Only Way is a new ITV channel for Essex reality show

12th February

• Getting started: How to set up your new Android phone
• Porn industry gets behind parental controls and filters
• LG G2 Mini confirmed for MWC
• Ferrari California T is a 552bhp turbocharged treat
• Audi S1 and S1 Sportback details, images and price
• Samsung Galaxy S5: Rumours N’ Stuff
• Apple to release iOS 7.1 update in March
• EE to offer superfast broadband connections for free
• Honda Civic Type R Concept is a ‘racing car for the road’
• First look at BBC’s online bullying drama Dixi
• Michael Schumacher not responding to stimuli, and ‘hit by lung infection’
• Angry drivethru customer shoots at McDonald’s after staff forgot bacon
• In-flight 3G and 4G coming to a plane near you?
• Flood damage in Guildford cleared by BT as the south west continues to drown
• Virgin Media gets Hollyoaks’ Jennifer Metcalfe celebrate two millionth TiVo sign up

11th February

• 40 per cent of motorists fail to concentrate on driving
• Safer Internet Day 2014: What families can do to stay safe online
• Car thief caught out by DNA on his cigarette
• Koenigsegg teases world with first official Agera One: 1 image
• New Mercedes S-Class Coupé leans into corners
• LiFi technology to be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress
• Windows 8 Family Safety: Free built in parental security controls
• Police officer arrests fire fighter as he attended to crash victims
• EE steps up its entertainment offerings with EE Tickets
• How to turn on Parental Internet Controls on Macs, iPads and iPhones
• Parental Internal Controls: BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Sky and EE’s porn block software
• Motorist caught out by his beard whilst speeding
• TalkTalk TV nets Nicktoons kids channels
• Samsung Galaxy S5 to come in two different flavours?
• How to turn on Parental Internet Controls on PCs running Windows 7

10th February

• What is Android and what is an Android phone?
• Motorola Moto G Review: In Depth
• What is MWC 2014: A quick, simple guide
• HTC making cheaper phones in search of profit
• Audi RS4 Avant Nogaro pays homage to RS2
• BBC and ITV satellite moves cut off expat viewers
• Flappy Bird gets its wings clipped by creator
• Freeview Connect: Digital UK confirms BBC, ITV and Channel 4’s alternative YouView talks
• Nissan GT-R Nismo readies itself for Geneva debut
• Virgin Media now even faster, finds Netflix
• Video: iPhone 5s vs Xperia Z1 Compact camera test
• Motorist given parking ticket whilst stuck in traffic
• ZTE Blade Q Mini Review: In Depth
• Concerns over wireless radiation almost scupper Aberdeenshire rural broadband plans
• Onlincolnshire extends superfast rural broadband to 89 per cent with extra cash
• New HTC One mini on the cards

7th February

• Microsoft adding Cortana to Windows Phone in Foursquare partnership
• Renault Next Two self-driving car can park itself
• Primus Saver drops Line Rental Saver, takes leaf out of Sky’s book
• Samsung reveals new Black Edition Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S4 mini
• Nokia Asha 503 Review: In Depth
• Sony Xperia Z1 Compact vs Samsung Galaxy S4 vs HTC One: Which is best?
• iOS 7 bug lets hackers disable Find My iPhone without needing your password
• Kia Soul EV details and images
• Images of Huawei Ascend P7 and MediaPad X1 leak
• BT picked to pipe free WiFi around Glasgow city centre
• Invitation suggests that LG is preparing a G Pro 2 announcement before MWC
• Mercedes bolsters S-Class range with three new engines
• Wessex Internet guns for £10 million rural broadband fund
• First areas of Superfast Dorset rollout revealed
• A first glimpse of the new HTC One’s desktop
• Netflix plans European expansion and more original programming

6th February

• New BMW X3 images, price and specs
• Samsung’s long-awaited Galaxy S5 could be due February 24th
• Samsung teams up with Phones 4U, takes on Apple
• New HTC M8 images emerge… real or fake?
• Lovefilm Instant launches new original pilots including Chris Carter’s The After
• Broadcasters to reduce YouView investment in favour of Freeview – UPDATED
• Everyone’s going cuckoo for Flappy Bird, earning its developers $50k a day
• Citroen C4 Cactus is one badass hatchback
• BT rescues flooded customers as warnings rise in Somerset
• Unused fibre could be tapped to supercharge Welsh broadband rollout
• UK’s worst drivers revealed after publication of DVLA data
• Poor, old and rural: The real losers in England’s superfast broadband race
• 16 per cent of young UK drivers admit to driving insured in a parent’s name
• BT launches anti-spam home smartphone
• Renault Kwid concept has a built-in drone
• Consumers are losing out to corporate lobbying of Ofcom
• Firefox and EverythingMe unveil Firefox Launcher, looks very familiar
• HTC wants to rock your wrist in 2014
• BT steps up Sky battle testing 4K Ultra HD for sport
• Aston Martin recalls 17,590 cars over Chinese counterfeit part
• Cheap Broadband: Tesco vs TalkTalk vs Direct Save Telecom best value deals

5th February

• Apple iPad Mini or Google Nexus 7: Which is best?
• Audi A6 ‘ultra’ is a more efficient beast
• Sony Xperia Z1 or Sony Xperia Z1 Compact: Which is best?
• Dog eats Aston Martin
• BT Box Office launches download to own movies feature for YouView customers
• 2014 Mercedes C-Class images, UK price and specs
• New HTC One photo shows dual camera and familiar design
• LG G Pro 2 rocks 13-megapixel camera with image stabilisation and slow-mo video
• Tabby ‘Ikea car’ can be built in 41 minutes
• DJ Deadmau5 gives his Ferrari 458 a Nyan Cat makeover
• Now TV Beta arrives for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phones and tablets
• Couple die of carbon monoxide poisoning after having sex in car
• AllCast brings back Chromecast functionality
• Samsung’s powerful ‘Huron’ Windows Phone mobile leaked
• HySpeed Broadband launches 15Mbps satellite broadband
• Red Nexus 5 out now, brings passion to mobile
• Virgin Media acquires Smallworld Fibre
• 25 amazing ways that Sky has changed British TV in 25 years

4th February

• BT Fibre on Demand price hike makes it even more expensive
• Highways Agency reveals ‘Hadecs3’ speed camera
• Sky and TalkTalk launch Premier League football on Now TV
• VW Lupo swallowed by 30ft-deep sinkhole
• TalkTalk TV could beat BT to the first million milestone
• Mazda 2 Colour editions offer more bang for buck
• Vodafone boosts its boosters with Sure Signal Premium for business
• Copper thieves lift Virgin Media cables in northwest London
• TalkTalk adds more than 100,000 mobile customers in 2013
• Sub 2Mbps broadband speeds and TV drive customers to TalkTalk superfast fibre
• Canadian child steals grandmother’s car, attempts to cross US border
• Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 Review: In Depth
• CityFibre wants Peterborough to Gig Up for ultrafast fibre broadband
• Apple iPhones to sense your mood soon?
• Beat the tube strike with your mobile phone
• Samsung reveals MWC Unpacked launch info
• Blinkbox feeds TV addiction with free Sherlock and Breaking Bad episodes

3rd February

• Red Google Nexus 5 could be launched tomorrow
• Ultrafast rural fibre provider retreats in face of Wiltshire Council’s slower speeds
• Nissan Micra Limited Edition cares about looks
• O2 changes contract terms, locks customers into higher prices
• Bugatti Veyron successor to replace canned Galibier
• Freesat Awards 2014 open for entries
• London Lorry ban to boost cyclist safety
• YouView adds S4C’s 35 day catch-up service for Welsh-speaking watchers – UPDATED
• Best music streaming services for your smartphone
• BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe images, price and specs
• HTC M8 New York launch expected next month
• EE and Three plan to share their 4G network costs in £1bn deal
• Wuaki adds iOS7 app
• Smart TV platform Freetime proves popular with Freesat viewers
• Government looking at whitelist to stop network filter errors
• Sony Xperia Z1 Compact or Apple iPhone 5s: Which is best?