October 2014 Archive
31st October
- Top 10 Halloween apps for kids
- How to speed up your creaky old smartphone
- 23-year-old made selfie video while being chased by police
- Free 4K movies flogged with Sony Ultra HD TVs in Christmas sales dash
- Amazon Fire HD 6 Review: In Depth
- Two-thirds of drivers want new Scottish drink-drive limit in England and Wales
- Why cyclists should be treated the same as motorists
- Audi R8 Competition is the most powerful R8 ever
- New Moto 360 colours look beautifully classy
- Villagers want £30k to connect 300 homes to BT superfast fibre cabinets – Update
- Samsung launches super-slim Galaxy A3 and A5 phones
- Two in five iPhone 6s are already knackered
30th October
- Free WiFi coming to over 1,000 UK public buildings
- Sky Sports scores five year Rugby Union deal
- The UK’s most scarily unreliable car revealed
- Introducing the new 575hp BMW X5 M and X6 M
- Win a Kindle Paperwhite with TalkTalk Mobile
- Apple Pay not a threat to UK rival Zapp
- Microsoft’s first Windows Phone wearable, Microsoft Band, launched after leak
- Krossblade SkyCruiser is a flying car like no other
- US carrier tracking customers’ smartphones
- Bye Pad, or Why the iPad Mini is well and truly dead
- BT confirms Netflix is coming to its YouView TV boxes
- SexFit seeking beta tester for smart cock-ring
- SmartThings adds support for home owners with Windows Phones
- Mario Kart 8 upload reveals YouTube 60fps support
- Flipboard 3.0 launches on Android and iOS boasting ‘The Daily Edition’ and ‘Topics’
- EE’s LTE-A average speeds outstrip BT’s superfast FTTC headline rate
- EE launches its 150Mbps LTE-A network in central London dubbed ‘EE 4G+’
29th October
- Westminster council to solve daily parking woes with ParkRight app
- Google Nexus 9 (by HTC) hands-on review
- Sony’s SmartWatch 3 wearable hitting the UK on November 16th
- Self-driving cars: Absolutely everything you need to know
- Gone in 60 Seconds Shelby Mustang to be auctioned in December
- TalkTalk to bundle mobile SIMs with Plus TV broadband, home phone and YouView package
- Huawei Honor 6 goes on sale in UK hoping to rival the Nexus 6
- Google Hangouts offers free (and brief) international calls
- Sky invests in rising YouTube network Whistle Sports
- Apple iPad Air 2 Review: In Depth
- TalkTalk offers record, pause and rewind on all TV Plus channels
28th October
- Freesat launches kids on demand service Hopster in time for half term
- BT bringing 330Mbps fibre broadband to Aberdeenshire new build
- Gigaclear’s 1,000Mbps fibre broadband reaches hundreds of Oxfordshire homes
- Best Horror Games for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows
- Ferrari Sergio: The ultra rare supercar you can’t buy
- New crash test dummies to simulate fat, ageing drivers
- Woman deliberately drives her VW Golf into the sea
- Wuaki.tv aims to make a Killing with Nordic Noir Arrow Films deal
- Android hotspot WiFi ‘terror prank’ grounds LA-London flight
- Fiat Panda Cross review
- Boris Johnson announces £12.50-a-day ‘ultra low emission zone’ charge
- Samsung phones can be remotely hacked, warns NIST
- Amazon now offering mobile contracts through partner O2
- Fitbit launches Surge smartwatch and Charge wristbands
- Apple iPad Mini 1 vs Mini 2 vs Mini 3: Which is best for me?
27th October
- Chromecast vs Amazon Fire TV Stick vs Google Nexus Player vs Amazon Fire TV
- Tailgating tops bad driving habits survey
- Apple iPad Mini 3 Review: In Depth
- Amazon’s Fire TV Stick kicks more sand in Chromecast’s face
- Scotland considers lower drink-drive limit
- Scotland Tesla supercharger lets you drive across the UK for free (nearly)
- Constantine episodes to hit Amazon Prime Instant Video hours after US broadcast
- Huawei to launch ‘alternative’ new Honor smartphone range in Europe
- Why US retailers including Walmart are blocking Apple Pay
- Cheaper UK driving licence fees announced
- Apple iTunes to offer streaming music service in 2015
- Free Sky broadband bundled with a year of Sky Movies
- Republique (iOS/Android) game review
- Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 (10-inch) Review: In Depth
26th October
- Torlock, Seedpeer and others to be blocked by court order: Leading UK ISPs to comply
- Nest adds Pebble support, wades deeper into the Internet of Things
24th October
- Sunrise Tracking lets you stop car thieves with a simple text message
- How Samsung’s Galaxy S6 could be the best smartphone ever
- McLaren P1 GTR programme is the ultimate petrolhead present
- How to get your driving license on the cheap
- Government launches student competition to help disabled commuters
- What happened to Google’s modular phone, Project Ara?
- 4K Ultra HD interoperability test kicked off by DTG
- The sexy, round LG G Watch R is hitting the UK very soon
- Half term respite for parents with TalkTalk’s half price Kids Boost
- Android Wear update adds offline GPS and music playback
- YouView finally gets BBC Connected Red Button plus 30 day iPlayer catch-ups
- Gran spends £4,000 WiFI-proofing her home against electro-sensitivity
23rd October
- Channel 4 timeshifts on to Virgin Media TV Anywhere
- Somerset man proposes to girlfriend in cop car
- Motorola Droid Turbo looks like a serious Nexus 6 rival
- Is a BMW i8 with 500hp on the cards?
- Documentary shows disadvantaged youths learning to rebuild motorcycles
- Driverless buses could be coming to a place near you
- Hendo hoverboard lets you embrace the Marty McFly in you
- Nick Clegg launches TechNorth to rival London’s start-up hub
- Google’s ‘Inbox’ app is the new uber-Gmail
- Amazon Fire TV now shipping in the UK
- Apple Pay charging customers twice
22nd October
- Qualcomm’s 4K Ultra HD-streaming Chromecast-alike spotted in the wild
- BT’s Superfast Surrey project reaches 75,000 homes and businesses
- EE TV vs rivals: How does it stack up?
- 2,000bhp Trion Nemesis out for supercar blood
- Brabus Mercedes GLA 45 packs a 394bhp punch
- Electric Golf wants to drive 2,500 miles on a single charge
- Sky+ app update adds Apple TV-esque photo sharing through your Sky+HD box
- Britain’s happiest drivers revealed
- How the new Onyx smartwatch solves a critical wearable problem
- Electric cars gain popularity in the UK
- Tesla Model S video review: The best electric car on earth?
- When is the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge coming to the UK?
- Apple iCloud hack attempt: Is my data safe?
- EE financial results show the company as the biggest 4G network in the world
- Gigaclear’s fibre broadband sees schoolkids streaming 50 HD YouTube videos at once
21st October
- Licence Fee decriminalisation review to be published June 2015
- Acer Liquid Jade Review: In Depth
- This is how you load a bobcat digger onto a trailer
- Freesat still shy of 2 million homes despite pull of catch-up and mobile apps
- Cost of learning to drive hits more than £1,000
- Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus packs more power
- Lenovo to buy Blackberry by the end of the week?
- Xbox One’s Live Trending update lets Twitter be your TV guide
- BMW M4 DTM special edition built to celebrate DTM victory
- Sony’s Xperia Z4 smartphone leaks
- Virgin’s west coast trains to be turbocharged with 12Mbps WiFi
- Finally, us normal folk can buy a OnePlus One this week
20th October
- Virgin Media bringing superfast broadband to 5,000 more North East homes
- Sky Go adds ITVBe and Channel 5 in time for TOWIE and Gotham
- New Motorola Moto X (2014) Review: In Depth
- Having a heart attack? Your car will do the rest
- Volkswagen Passat review
- Samsung Galaxy Alpha Review: In Depth
- Watch this self-driving Audi RS7 racing around the Hockenheimring
- Apple Pay launches in the US, but what about the UK?
- Is your phone getting Android Lollipop?
- Microsoft will launch rival smartwatch by Christmas
- 2015 Toyota GT86 is cheaper, more customisable
- Google lets you compare Netflix and Amazon Instant Video while punishing pirates
- Internet ‘trolls’ threatened with two years in prison
19th October
17th October
- Austrian ISP tests G.fast in the wild as BT continues lab trials
- Archos’ super-cheap VR headset to compete with Google Cardboard
- Apple’s new iPad Air 2 SIM explained
- What is the Nexus Player? Google’s Lollipop-powered Chromecast and Android TV hybrid
- Brits would rather holiday with their phones than without
- Cyberlink PhotoDirector app review
- Tesla Model D: Everything you need to know
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Review: In Depth
- Foolish driver luckily escapes death in highspeed crash with two lorries
- Sky inches closer to Freeview and BT’s TV and broadband top spots
- Mini 5-Door Hatch review
16th October
- Superfast Cymru on track to reach 96 per cent of Welsh properties by 2016
- TalkTalk’s new TVBox Boost brings 30 Rock, Suits and Grimm to TV screens
- Gigaclear wants to fibre up 5,000 Northamptonshire homes
- Motorola Moto 360 Review: In-Depth
- Introducing the £10,700 Bentley phone
- iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3: The biggest Apple let-down yet?
- Vodafone triples 4G mobile broadband speeds with LTE-Advanced rollout
- Samsung delivers gigabit broadband to car passenger in ‘5G’ mobile test
- How much is your old tax disc worth?
- Copper’s not dead yet: Superfast broadband trials in BT’s G.fast lab
- EE launches UK’s cheapest 4G tablet – the Alcatel One Touch Pop 7S
- Let’s Get Retarded over Will.I.Am’s new Puls smartwatch
- BlackBerry Classic specs and photos leak, shows little real improvement
- Razor Crazy Kart XL is a drifting machine for adults
15th October
- Google unveils Android 5.0 Lollipop and two new Nexus devices
- Kazam’s new Tornado 348 whips up a storm as the world’s thinnest phone
- Aston Martin Vantage V12 S Roadster review
- Hive by British Gas hints at smart home controls as it connects 100,000th customer
- Trusting husband lets wife create a masterpiece on his Nissan Skyline GT-R
- Best budget tablets for Christmas 2015
- A closer look at the awesome Blocks smartwatch, a serious Apple Watch rival
- FitBit releasing two new fitness devices after Force recall
- Apple to reveal new iPad Mini with Retina Display tomorrow
- BMW M4 Convertible review
- You can now watch UltraViolet digital movies through Blinkbox
14th October
- Skype hopes to tackle instant video messaging with Qik. We go hands-on
- BT beams superfast ‘wireless to the cabinet’ broadband to remote Devon village
- Tesco Hudl 2 Review: In Depth
- Google debuts teaser ads before tomorrow’s Android event
- Will.I.Am launches Apple Smartwatch competitor
- Bemo wants to Kickstart your old phone into a smart thermostat
- Google connects concerned symptom searchers with real life doctors
- How to shoot better video with your smartphone
13th October
- Prime Instant Video becomes more kid-friendly thanks to Amazon-Viacom deal
- LG launches 55-inch Full HD OLED TV for a more affordable £3,000
- IFTTT channel arrives for Honeywell’s Evohome smart heating system
- Microsoft releases prototype on-screen keyboard for Android Wear
- Climote: We go hands-on with Scottish Power’s favourite smart heating system
- Top Argentinian diplomat blasts Clarkson for ‘fabricating’ danger
- HTC extends EYE camera experience to the One (M8) in Android 4.4.4 update
- Most UK drivers think it’s fine to break the speed limit — a bit
- Sky invests in web content startup Pluto.TV: Cat videos, 4K Ultra HD and R. Kelly
- Revenge porn posters could face up to two years in prison
- Sky to hike line rental for broadband and phone in time for Christmas
- Samsung’s ten times faster tri-band WiFi will supercharge your smart home
11th October
10th October
- Porsche Macan Turbo review
- Ferrari F60America is too cool for the spacebar
- Police impersonator busted for arresting real policeman
- Apple improves iCloud security following celebrity leaks
- Smaller cars not necessarily the most efficient
- Three Mobile fined for dragging its feet on customer complaints
- Nokia Lumia 1020-powered ‘Ultrascope’ encourages amateur astrophotography
- Cyclists should be given number plates, police commissioner says
- Tesla Model D is an all-wheel drive Model S on steroids
- Honeywell brings voice activated heating to homes with its new smart thermostat
- London Zoo streams live otter cam in TV white space broadband trial
- Gigabit broadband will turn Skype into a 3D holodeck by 2025, apparently
9th October
- Lenovo launches Yoga Tablet 2 and 2 Pro with integrated projector
- BT to offer social housing tenants cheap broadband without line rental
- ITVBe added to new ITV Player iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps
- YouView adds Quest On Demand to its catch-up collection
- New Porsche 911 Carrera GTS gets a healthy 430hp
- EE drops superfast Fibre Broadband prices for 6 months
- Leading retailers including Sainsbury’s and John Lewis to launch mobile payments in 2015
- Two axe-wielding Spaniards go to town on a pair of Peugeot 205s
- Microsoft launches Xim: a new photo sharing experience on mobile
- Hot Wheels and Vanguard stop-motion film is 25,000 frames of awesome
- User manual for high-end Motorola DROID Turbo leaks
- Prices revealed for monstrous new Mercedes-AMG C 63
- ‘Overseas speeders’ and vehicle tax evaders costing the government millions
- Hyperoptic connects London’s Marlin Apartments to gigabit fibre broadband
- TOWIE-centric channel ITVBe lands on Freeview, YouView, Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media
- Private toll road in Bath reaches 100,000 vehicles
- HTC Desire EYE available exclusively on Three
- Apple to launch new iPads on October 16
8th October
- Hands-on with HTC’s new selfie monster, the Desire EYE
- HTC confirms smartwatch, but delays its launch until next year
- HTC unveils the RE Camera. A snapper built for life logging, we go hands-on
- Asus Zenfone 5 Review: In Depth
- Britain’s most lucrative speed camera revealed
- Microsoft FlexSense concept gives new physical input to Surface
- Gymkhana 7 to feature Ken Block in a 60s Ford Mustang?
- Meet the Fast & Frugal modified BMW i3
- EE TV set top box launches
- BT and Huawei blast 3Tbps down fibre optic broadband link
7th October
- Tado’s second gen smart thermostat touts an LED touchscreen for non-smartphone folk
- How charging your smartphone could be making you fatter
- Wrekin Ball: West Midlands council invites bids for superfast broadband scheme
- Sky Sports and Movies cut to £20/month on TalkTalk TV
- Which Nokia Lumia is best for me? 530 vs 635 vs 735 vs 830 vs 930
- Jaguar XF Sportbrake R-Sport review
- Apple iPad Air 2: In a nutshell
- Apple Watch more dangerous to motorists than phones are
- Nokia Lumia 735 Review: In Depth
- Porsche Panamera S e-Hybrid video review
- Now Cortana can make life decisions and speak Klingon
- BT Sport Christmas and New Year 2014/15 football fixtures revealed
- PiixL’s Steam-powered smart TV gaming rig G-Pack hits Kickstarter
- Plex launches bespoke Xbox One app, 360 version coming soon
6th October
- Boris Johnson calls for all diesel cars to be scrapped
- Ford Fiesta Zetec S Red Edition review
- Nokia Lumia 830 Review: In Depth
- Ferrari F12 Berlinetta review
- Hyperoptic eyes up Birmingham, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield for gigabit broadband action
- UK car theft hotspots identified
- Amazon Fire review: In Depth
- Rural fibre broadband project B4RN aims for Ofcom Code Powers as it connects 600th customer
- EE’s royally fast 4G comes to Sandhurst and 17 other towns
- Apple’s new iPads likely to launch in ten days
- BBC iPlayer expands catch-up window to 30 days – but not on Virgin Media TiVo, YouView and BT Vision
- Netflix fires up sexier recommendations for Android
4th October
3rd October
- Jeremy Clarkson chased out of Argentina by angry mob after Falklands reference
- Weight loss apps to help you fight the flab
- Tesla announces Model S buy-back scheme for UK
- Apple iPhone 6 Plus vs Sony Xperia Z3: Which is best for me?
- Virgin Media to turbo-charge Derby businesses with 2Gbps ultrafast broadband
- Ferrari 458 Speciale: Yellow, but far from mellow
- UK average broadband speed climbs to 18.7Mbps as town and country divide narrows
- Citroen shows how you do a concept with Divine DS
- New Renault Espace shows MPVs can be desirable
- Tesco Hudl 2: Hands-on review with this Full HD budget tablet
2nd October
- Virgin TV Anywhere adds Al Jazeera, Zing and 13 more channels
- Roku launches Chromecast-style mirroring for Android and Windows devices
- Moto 360’s awful battery now passable thanks to update
- Mazda MX-5 goes topless at the Paris Motor Show
- Audi gives the TT three more doors in Paris-showcased Sportback Concept
- Aston Martin Vanquish Carbon Edition treads familiar waters (again)
- Ford unveils first ever diesel Focus ST, plus more efficient petrol edition
- Tesla CEO ready to give us the D
- Fiat 500X wants to go where no other 500 has been before
- Nissan Pulsar gets the Nismo treatment
- Vodafone brings more power to budget 4G plans
- Apple iPhone 6 vs Sony Xperia Z3 Compact: Which is best for me?
- VW XL Sport has the heart of a motorbike, soul of a tree-hugger
- Competition: Win an Xbox One FIFA 15 bundle with TalkTalk Superpowered Fibre broadband
- Smart Heating vs Smart Meters: What’s the difference?
- Lamborghini goes hybrid with 910hp Asterion concept
- New online car tax system experiences teething problems
- Jaguar XE starts from £28,000
- Competition: Win a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini with TalkTalk Mobile
1st October
- BBC Store will do for downloads what iPlayer did for catch-up, says chief
- BT copper cable crime cripples Croydon communications connections
- Pebble finally launches in the UK and gets fitness tracking
- Firefox OS-powered Chromecast rival Matchstick exceeds Kickstarter goal on first day
- HTC One M8 Eye with improved camera launching October 8th?
- Aston Martin Lagonda: Beauty or beast?
- Virgin Media claims Premier League rights deals are ripping off football fans
- Peugeot 208 GTi 30th celebrates 30 years of GTi goodness
- MIT creates MagMIMO: Wireless charging with the range of WiFi
- Google Nexus 6: In a nutshell
- How to run Android L on an iPhone