July 2014 Archive
31st July
- How can I get the complete 2014/15 Premier League football season on TV
- Australian curtain airbag safety video is brutal
- BT’s fibre reaches 20m and connects 3m, but TV stalls in spring
- Watch a bloke break the Guinness World Record for drifting
- BT scores with German international friendly rights
- Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini hits UK on August 7th
- Top Gear’s The Stig labels driverless cars ‘terrifying’
- Watch five BMW M235i Coupes go sideways in Cape Town
- HTC’s new Windows Phone device launching next month?
- Pirate sites to be hit by warning ads from British police
- EE 4G comes to superfast Saltash in Cornwall
- BT fails finals as it overcharges students on 9-month deals
30th July
- LG G3 ‘Prime’ with better specs to launch in September?
- Mobile phones to be confiscated after all road accidents
- Bugatti Veyron Pur Blanc edition hits 246mph in video
- Boris Johnson’s pet boffin calls for 5G for London by 2020
- Hospital parking wardens told to focus on ‘cancer departments’
- Windows Phone selfie smartphone and new PureView snapper incoming
- Primus Saver’s new unlimited broadband prices revealed
- £2,892 a year for 330Mbps? BT’s Fibre on Demand is ‘madness’ says Recombu reader
- Driverless cars on British roads in 2015
- Cortana finally hits the UK in beta form
- BBC Sport iOS and Android apps get Chromecast support
- Xbox One gets Now TV in time for the 2014/15 Premier League
29th July
- Good deal: TalkTalk slashes SIM-only price plans
- BT launches Openreach repairs and installation report card
- Best Lego sets for petrolheads
- Government to penalise diesels?
- Vodafone flogs Chromecast for a fiver off with Red 4G contracts
- This Ferrari-designed Cruise train is a mobile luxury hotel
- OnePlus One Review: In Depth
- BT blasted for superfast famine by City of London policy boss
- Apple might use PIE to make the next iPhone’s sapphire display
- Britain’s longest commutes revealed
- Nvidia solves problem of crap phone screens by crushing two together
- Jaguar XE has a thing for aluminium
- Sharknado and SyFy Sync take a bite out of Philips Hue’s smart lights
28th July
- Fiat 500L Vans Concept is radical, man
- Sony Xperia T3 Review: In Depth
- Motorists urged to stop drinking and driving
- Summer storms and lightning strikes take out BT connections across England
- Freesat’s rise stalls as Freetime smart TV boxes triple sales
- Hotel WiFi Test predicts your performance in hotel bedrooms
- Primus Saver to relaunch basic broadband as unlimited service
- Nokia rips on Siri with new Cortana ad
- How to stream torrents on Apple TV: Download TorrenTV
- BMW X4 xDrive30d M Sport review
27th July
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25th July
- This driveable deck chair is the ultimate summer accessory
- TPS anti-spam register can only cut a third of PPI and sales calls
- TalkTalk Essentials TV gets four bonus channels from CBS
- Blinkbox beams Chromecast support into iPad and Android tablets
- Smart British TV tech ideas head for world’s biggest showcase
- Tesco Mobile offers free 4G for PAYG customers
- Sky doubles connected Sky+HD boxes but faces old box crunch
- 11,000 more Hampshire homes and business will get access to superfast broadband
- Meet the AMG GT’s 503bhp 4.0-litre V8 biturbo
- Samsung Galaxy Gear virtual reality device leaked
- TOWIE finds a new home when ITVBe hits Freeview on October 8
24th July
- Most Brits say no to Cameron’s online parental controls
- iPhone 6 and iWatch to be launched at separate events in 2014
- Fibre optic broadband lands on the Isles of Scilly
- Chromecast Android mirroring: Tips & Tricks
- Humax HDR-1800T brings Freeview+HD recording for £150
- The all-metal Samsung Galaxy S5 Alpha might never hit the UK
- Moto digital ink tattoo will unlock your phone
- Now TV hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One ‘weeks away’
23rd July
- Apple reckons it’ll sell 80m iPhone 6 units in initial run
- If Darth Vader built a Batmobile, it would look like the Darthcar
- Nvidia launches uber-powerful Shield gaming tablet
- Nine things you need to know about the BMW X4
- Motorola Moto G2 packs even more impressive features
- TalkTalk TV overtakes BT as engineers recruited for York fibre trial
- Nokia launches mega-cheap and fully-featured Lumia 530
- Sky Sports News HQ relaunching into Sky’s top sports spot
- Free WiFi from The Cloud lets Legoland Windsor guests jump queues
- TalkTalk TV scores 600 live European games with Sky Sports 5
22nd July
- iOS 8 Beta 4 lands, fixing a whole load of bugs
- Competition: Win a 40-inch Samsung TV with TalkTalk
- Competition: Win a brand new five-star LG G3 smartphone with O2
- Samsung Galaxy Ace Style Review: In Depth
- Mercedes C 220 AMG Line review
- Rest in peace paper counterpart driving licence
- Apple iPhone 6: Everything we know so far
- Tesla Model S hacked by Chinese computer boffins
- HTC set to launch two new tablets and a Nexus 9
- O2 expands Euro travel data allowance: Pay Monthly throttled at 100MB
- Rural anti-BT backlash may halt expansion of pioneering West Country broadband project
- The 240mph supercar powered by salt water
- iPhone 6 to use light-up logo for notifications
- ISPs will send out letters but won’t disconnect suspected pirates
21st July
- This Nissan Qashqai accelerates quicker than a McLaren P1
- Watch this man doing donuts in his living room with a Shelby Cobra
- Where has the Lego Batman Tumbler been all our lives?
- Burnouts are cool, until you mash up your Mustang
- Meet the giant 500hp V8 jet ski James Bond would kill for
- Samsung will literally save your skin with Galaxy Note 4
- Watch this friendly helicopter pilot retrieve a kid’s RC plane from a tree
- V Festival 2014 gets the Glastonbury live streaming treatment on YouTube
- Firefox OS-based Chromecast rival powered up by Mozilla
- iPhone 6 screen not sapphire as rumoured, fails sandpaper test
- Skoda goes all Batman on us with Black Editions
- What do F1 stars drive when they’re not at work?
- Home router security holes to be exposed at Def Con 22 hacker meet up
- Fiat Panda Cross pictures, price and specs
- Sky Sports 4 mutating into Sky Sports Ryder Cup for golf tournament
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S Review: In Depth
- Even a kid can hack your Google account with your Android phone
18th July
- Meet the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid
- iPhone 6’s super-thin battery could make it slimmest phone ever
- Best Premier League TV deal: Sky Sports 2 years free broadband vs Virgin Media Season Ticket
- Emotion-sensing and chirping lead search for best British TV tech
- Jaguar ‘Good to be bad’ advert banned
- Sky Service app lets customers manage their account anywhere
- Watch a new Smart fortwo crash into a Mercedes-Benz S-Class
- Could a driverless car be used as a ‘lethal weapon’?
- BBC and EE to test drive TV over 4G at Commonwealth Games
- Chromecast Rickroll Hack: Your living room is safe
- LightwaveRF’s wireless smart switches take motion sensing anywhere
- Nokia’s Android devices scrapped, along with 15% of staff
- iPhone 6 and iPhone 5.5-inch phablet to hit production imminently
- The worst, most pointless, most useless apps ever
17th July
- How to check and manage data usage on your smartphone
- Lexus RC F video panders to our inner geek
- Death-dealing Maybach Exelero laughs in the face of zombies
- Should smoking be banned in cars if a child is present?
- Virgin Media to expand London Underground WiFi network ahead of Three’s free ride
- LG G3 Beat is a still-huge, crapper version of the LG G3
- New Smart fortwo and forfour pictures, price and specs
- Turn your phone into a Freeview+ box with TVman Mobility
- 2015 Mazda 2 pictures and details
16th July
- Beamly makes iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD more social with a Chrome extension
- Freesat launches Android remote record smart TV app
- Superfast Berkshire ceremonially switches on first BT cabinet
- Using your phone while driving to yield double points?
- Toyota Aygo X-Cite review
- Maserati Quattroporte Zegna Limited Edition arrives fashionably late
- Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act passed: Two more years of ISPs hoarding your data
- Hyperoptic’s Dana Tobak: “At some point everyone will be on a fibre connection”
- Digital Scotland reveals the next 90,000 superfast areas
- Aston Martin V12 Vantage S Roadster pictures and specs
- Has South Yorkshire picked BT for its superfast broadband rescue plan?
- Good deal: Amazon Kindle Fire HDX from £149
- Tesla confirms cheaper Model S
- Virgin TV Anywhere for Android enabled for LG G3 in time for Sky channel launches
- Real Madrid vs Sevilla UEFA Super Cup kicks off Sky Sports 5 on Sky and Now TV
15th July
- Sky Sports, Movies and TV bundles 2014 price rises explained
- Microsoft Surface Pro 3 hands-on review
- Honeywell Evohome smart energy hands-on video: “We invented the thermostat”
- 2015 Range Rover and Range Rover Sport details and pictures
- Google’s high-tech contact lenses could help diabetes sufferers
- Porsche 911 Turbo S GB Edition details, pictures and price
- How your wearable is your worst enemy
- Kia re-homes 27 desert tortoises for new test facility
- Monolyth smart aircon and pollution detector hits Indiegogo
- Scottish Government moots post-Independence broadband for all
14th July
- Humax unleashes harder, better, faster, slimmer YouView box for £200
- LaFerrari XX prototype sounds like a dream, until its suspension snaps [video]
- Woman blames dead man when caught speeding
- Asus Transformer Pad TF103C Review: In Depth
- World’s first home robot shop opens in Paris
- Test drive ends in crashed Ferrari 458 Speciale
- Sky Sports and BT Sport 2014/15 Premier League fixtures revealed
- Virgin Media undercuts Sky prices with Sky Sports 1-5 Season Ticket bundle
- Your local roads could become home to the next Le Mans
- Could Nokia launch an insane new camera phone in September?
- Sony Xperia Z3 news so far: UK specs, price, release date
- Popcorn Time for Chromecast gets Android support, built in VPN coming soon
- UK firms failed by superslow broadband: FSB calls for 10Mbps for all
- Hack a Tesla Model S, win $10,000
11th July
- Porsche 718 ‘baby Boxster’ teased
- LG G3 tips and tricks
- The mighty Mini: How many are left on UK roads?
- Rural broadband project Fibre GarDen finally achieves lift off
- School project to build Caterham ends at Top Gear track
- Blackwell: Legacy, Unbound and Convergence (iOS) game reviews
- Can the Aviva Drive app really make your car insurance cheaper?
- Nokia Lumia 930 Review: In Depth
- GCHQ and NSA earn ‘Internet Villain’ gong in UK broadband providers industry bash
- Smart LED light and Bluetooth speaker merge in Mipow Playbulb
- Watch takes a bite out of del Toro vampire show The Strain
- LG makes bendable 18-inch OLED, promises 60-inch flexi-4K TV by 2017
- Stop TV Licence dodgers watching iPlayer, says Channel 4 boss
10th July
- Jaguar Land Rover cars to become personal assistants
- Android Wear: features, tips and tricks
- Is the Carice MK1 the cutest electric car around?
- Turn your old iPhone into a security camera with IFTTT and Manything
- Watch this video if you think electric cars are slow
- This Furtive-eGT would leave the Tesla Model S for dead
- 10Gbps over 30 metres of copper? You might as well build FTTP
- Jaguar’s Virtual Windscreen lets you race your augmented reality mates
- LG G Watch review
- Temporary internet snooping laws railroaded through parliament with RIPA review
- Chromecast mirroring hits LG G3, HTC One and other Android phones
- Ambulance drivers to get driving lessons after racking up £400,000 worth of damage
- Volvo XC90 SUV chucks 400bhp and saves the planet
9th July
- Plusnet brings unlimited broadband and phone down to £2.50/month
- Competition: Win special edition Sennheiser Momentum Samba On-Ear headphones
- The modular smartwatch that can be upgraded and expanded
- KAZAM Trooper X3.5 Review: In Depth
- ‘Prestige’ car owners open to electric motoring
- New VW Scirocco details, pictures and price
- BT and TalkTalk ticked off over misleading broadband claims
- What is IFTTT and how can I use it to hack my life?
- 2015 Vauxhall Corsa details and pictures
- Ford Sync 2 hands-on: More responsive voice control for you car
- Wuaki.tv serves up the best of modern British cinema
8th July
- Welcome to the new Recombu.com!
- 60mph motorway plan canned
- How to find Recombu’s special hidden easter eggs…
- Popcorn Time adds Chromecast and VPN secrecy for Windows
- 24th time lucky for one learner driver
- Sony gets into selfies with Xperia C3 smartphone
- Oxford Street is the most polluted street in the world
- Where can I watch the Netherlands vs Argentina World Cup semi final?
- Tesla Model S splits in half, catches fire after crash
- Freeview and YouView could get up to 100 new internet channels
- Competition: Win a Samsung Galaxy S5 with TalkTalk Mobile
- LG’s 77-inch curved 4K Ultra HD OLED: Eyes-on (Video)
- BMW M4 unleashed on an aircraft carrier
- Should 2p of fuel duty go into road repairs?
- Amazon OK’s tennis-themed comedy Red Oaks pilot for 80’s kidults
7th July
- Insurers can now access your previous convictions online
- Audi to offer both Android Auto and Apple Carplay
- Dad faces death penalty after leaving son to die in hot car
- Number of crashes in 20mph zones increased in 2013
- Freesat sues Amazon over Kindle and Fire TV’s Freetime trademark abuse
- Nokia Lumia 635 Review: In Depth
- Where can I watch the Brazil vs Germany World Cup semi final?
- Vodafone’s £5 a day WorldTraveller doesn’t cover mobile broadband
- Netflix wants to pay you to watch TV. Is this the Best Job Ever?
- Bentley and Vertu begin smartphone partnership
- Nokia Lumia 930 UK price, specs and release date announced
- The VW XL1 costs how much?!
- Best affordable 4G phones (2015)
- 1979 Corvette stolen decades ago returned to owner
- Vodafone’s WorldTraveller deal offers £5-a-day roaming
- Network Rail’s late trains fines to pay for on-board WiFi
- Labour MP blasts BT for London’s fibre broadband blackspots
4th July
- Alcatel One Touch Pop S3 Review: In Depth
- Try Facebook’s mood experiment on yourself
- Where can I watch the Netherlands vs Costa Rica World Cup quarter final?
- 2015 VW Passat details and pictures
- Where can I watch the Argentina vs Belgium World Cup quarter final?
- Make your own self-driving car with this special kit
- Your next phone will stream 4K Ultra HD to your TV, says Qualcomm
- Vodafone Ireland’s gigabit fibre network to put UK in the shade
3rd July
- EE regains broadband complaints crown, BT remains most moaned at TV provider
- TalkTalk’s parental filter disables disability blogs – but not by default
- Nokia holds art auction where social influence is the currency
- Caterham Formula One team sold
- New Mazda MX-5 to celebrate 25th anniversary
- ‘5G experience’ touted for 4G phones as trial demos gigabit speeds
- Google’s right to be forgotten creates Streisand effect
- ISPs launch legal bid to stop UK spies snooping
2nd July
- Where can I watch the Brazil vs Colombia World Cup quarter final?
- Where can I watch the France vs Germany World Cup quarter final?
- Chromecast vs Android TV: What’s the difference?
- Best Android smartphone (2014): LG G3 vs Sony Xperia Z2 vs HTC One M8 vs Samsung Galaxy S5
- GE Link takes on Philips Hue with £10 connected LED lights
- Is this the best Ferrari engine note of all time?
- 400 villages left in the slow lane by BDUK are begging Gigaclear for fibre
- Tonino Lamborghini Quantum HL-01 earphones review
- Parrot Flower Power checks in to Android with Bluetooth Smart
- 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is one scary kitty
- This Isle of Man onboard footage is something else
- Free Netflix with Vodafone 4G mobile & broadband deals are now live
1st July
- Sony Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact spotted in the wild?
- Get texts and listen in when your door is opened with RoomAlert
- Amazon adds Mena Suvari-starring Hysteria to next round of pilots
- Android L potentially coming to older devices like the Nexus 4,7, and 10
- Jaguar F-Type Convertible will make you angry. Very Angry
- Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, Trend 2, Young 2 and Core 2 announced
- 2014 Toyota Yaris details, pictures and price
- Women wear the trousers when buying a new car
- Honda takes to the skies
- Ray the robot parks your car for you
- Diesel motorists subsidising petrol drivers
- Will 4K video and the Internet of Things drive us to speeds of 165Mbps by 2020?
- Virgin Media confirms trial of WiFi AC ‘SuperHub 3’
- Roku remote control app FINALLY lands on Windows Phone and Windows 8.1
- BT updating YouView and Vision+ boxes with fresh new-look interface