February 2015 Archive
28th February
27th February
- Fiat 500 Ron Arad has a 1957 500 drawn on the side because… why not?
- Acer’s multi-OS Leap+ smartband is a bargain wearable
- Five myths about the BBC TV Licence busted
- Mercedes-AMG GT3 has the heart of a SLS AMG GT3
- TalkTalk scam calls caused by data leak: What to do
- Acer takes aim at Moto G with feature-packed 4G Liquid Jade Z
- Acer unleashes first Windows Phone blower, the M220
- Free LG G Watch R for Voda customers pre-ordering the G Flex 2
- Hyperoptic Leeds the ultrafast fibre broadband charge in Yorkshire
- Kia Sportspace is the ultimate ‘getaway’ car
- Apple Watch launching yet again in March
- Google’s AI learns to beat games on its own
26th February
- EE begins ultrafast 400Mbps 4G LTE trials at Wembley Stadium
- New 2016 Audi R8 ditches V8 for two screaming V10s
- BMW 2 Series 220d Convertible review
- New Porsche Cayman GT4 has downforce for days
- HTC One M9 hands-on review at MWC 2015
- Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge pictures and specs leaked
- Ofcom: UK average download speed climbs to 22.8Mbps
- LG G Flex 2 Review: In Depth
- House of Cards season 3: What to expect
- LG Watch Urbane LTE is taking the fight to Samsung’s Gear S at MWC
- Scrap BBC licence fee and replace it with TV tax for everyone, say MPs
- Viber integrating gaming into its mobile messaging platform
- Android For Work lets you separate your office and personal lives
25th February
- Netflix to reboot Danger Mouse and Inspector Gadget
- BT Sport nets three year exclusive of Serie A Italian football
- BMW 2 Series M235i Convertible review
- Is Minicabster the new Uber?
- McLaren 675LT promises 0-62mph in 2.9 whiplash-inducing seconds
- Motorola Moto E 4G (2015) hands-on review
- ITV meets Fox but fails to filch Family Guy from BBC Three
- Motorola wins best press launch ever for Moto E 4G
- Sky Sports scores US Major League Soccer exclusive against BT
- Mind-melting 1Tbps broadband speeds achieved in 5G trial
- The new Aston Martin Vulcan is an 800bhp track monster
- BMW 2 Series Convertible picks up where the 1 Series Convertible left off
- HTC One M9 laid bare in leaked promo videos
- Meet Panasonic’s SC-CMAX5: The perfect neighbour irritant
- Pebble Time close to $10 million Kickstarter funding in under 24 hours
- Google steps up the fight against malware
24th February
- New VW Touran has space for five child car seats at once
- 14-year-old boy hacks into car with off-the-shelf parts
- How to prevent and remove malware from your mobile
- The rise of mobile malware: What is it and what harm does it do?
- Samsung Galaxy A3 Review: In Depth
- Porsche Cayenne GTS review
- Samsung Galaxy A3 vs A5 vs A7: Which is best for me?
- BT brings superfast broadband to 1.5m Scottish properties
- Kazam wades into Windows with new phones and tablets
- New Motorola Moto E with 4G incoming – but where’s our Moto G 4G?
- Samsung Galaxy A5 Review: In Depth
- Firefox OS My Home Screen 2.0 on Panasonic smart TV: Hands-on
23rd February
- Mercedes G 500 4×4² is a mean, lime green off-roading machine
- 2016 Range Rover Evoque will be the most efficient Land Rover ever
- Panasonic unveils full 2015 TV range
- Freeview Play to be included in all 2015 Panasonic Viera TVs
- Panasonic announces new 4K Pro engine and Firefox-powered UI
- Meet the utterly insane Brabus 850 6.0 Biturbo Coupe
- LG’s new mid-range MWC lineup is all about design
- Apple to launch its first ever iOS public beta program
- Microsoft taking on Apple’s Find My Friends service with People Sense
21st February
20th February
- Sky Sports nabs all Chelsea and Man City games for April
- Pagani Huayra takes its top off for roadster edition
- Latest Aston Martin Vulcan teaser proves exhausts can be interesting
- Alcatel One Touch Pop 2 (4.5) Review: In Depth
- 2015 Infiniti Q70 Hybrid review
- Vikings season 3 raids Prime Instant Video
- 4G boost for UK’s biggest cities coming courtesy of Virgin Media
- Lenovo in trouble for malicious ‘Superfish’ adware on its PCs
- The 18-karat Apple Watch could cost £4,000
- YouTube Kids brings free cartoons and parental controls
- Satellina (iOS/Android) app review
19th February
- Radical RXC Turbo 500 wants to be king of the Nürburgring
- Would you pay Sony £100 for a memory card that promised ‘Premium Sound’?
- IFTTT’s Do Button has beaten Apple’s HomeKit to the punch
- Lotus Evora 400 is Norfolk’s fastest export
- McLaren P1 makes the Corvette Z06 look ridiculously slow
- Amazon salutes The Man in the High Castle, Mad Dogs and more new shows
- Motorola bumps up the beef with Apple
- ‘Momkhana’ video shows mum drifting around suburbs in 550hp minivan
- Can Samsung’s latest acquisition take on Apple Pay?
- Sky hosting Game of Thrones S5 world premiere at the Tower of London
18th February
- Honda Civic Type R spotted testing in London’s Regent Street
- Stupid wearables that will probably exist soon
- Production McLaren P1 GTR: You need to see these images
- Sony’s hamster wheel gives you the full SmartWear experience
- Huawei Ascend G7 offers great value 4G to take on the Moto G
- Aston Martin Vantage GT3 special edition is the most extreme yet
- Mozart in the Jungle gets encore as Amazon scores second series
- The mark of ZRRO: Android TV controller hits Kickstarter
- Competition: Win Beats by Dr.Dre Solo2s with TalkTalk
- 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays and players to hit shelves later this year
- How to (maybe) make millions writing a novel on your phone
- How to easily browse the iOS App Store on your PC or Mac
- Facebook will let you (and Beyoncé) produce your own VR content
17th February
- The Apple Watch isn’t living up to Apple’s expectations either
- Windows 10 on a Lumia phone: Review and top 5 features
- Can 270,000 Family Guy fans Save BBC Three?
- Is Sony’s SmartEyeglass ‘augmented reality glasses’ massively overpriced?
- Zen Internet launches self-install for superfast FTTC surfers
- Will VLC 3.0 support Chromecast on iOS?
- Competition: Win an Apple iPod Shuffle with TalkTalk Mobile
- Say hello to the new Hyundai Tucson
- How to update your Pebble watch with Android Wear features
- Acer Iconia One 7 (BT-750) Review: In Depth
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 could be the best tablet of 2015
16th February
- What is electro-hypersensitivity? We explore Chuck from Better Call Saul’s illness
- Want to find out if GCHQ has spied on you? Now you can
- Vax Air Cordless Lift Review: In Depth
- Sue Perkins to helm Game of Thrones recap show Thronecast for series five
- Nintendo shuns mobile games for a Mii app
- We love the sexy LG Watch Urbane, but it’s not Android Wear’s saviour
- Oxford boffins blast 200Gbps over 3 meters using lightbulbs
- MWC 2015 Preview: The biggest mobile launches in a nutshell
- Sky confirms Franco-Brit Bridge remake The Tunnel for second series
- DJ Zane Lowe is leaving Radio 1 to work on undisclosed Apple projects
14th February
13th February
- Just what is the Aston Martin Vulcan?
- Nissan 370Z Nismo Roadster concept needs to reach production
- Meet the 200mph Alpina B6 xDrive Gran Coupe
- Smoking in a car with a child present to be banned
- Ikea has released an emoticon keyboard for improving relationships
- Who will keep your Facebook profile up to date when you die?
- Gigaclear gunning for 6,000 new fibre broadband homes
- Drunk-driver fails to notice missing wheel for nearly three miles
- Govt asks public to choose its own fate for TV license avoidance
- Virgin Media’s superfast cable network to reach another 4 million
12th February
- Google Japan made a choir using 300 Android devices
- Smart ForFour review
- What is Freeview Play? 4K streaming, supported devices and everything else
- Smart ForTwo Review
- Free WiFi arriving on English and Welsh trains by 2017
- Meet the team helping to create OnePlus’ new OxygenOS
- TalkTalk TV launches Sky Go-style mobile app TV2Go
- Freeview Play vs YouView: What’s the difference?
- You can manipulate App Store rankings from about £7300 in China
- Renault Megane GT 220 to offer affordable French fun
- Sky Sports and Sky News hit Snapchat Discover
- Nissan Leaf glow-in-the-dark paint is hard to miss
- Freeview Play announced: Connected TV platform plays catch-up with YouView
- Android Wear has disappointing birth, but 2015 will be better
- HTC’s smartwatch first to rock a flexible screen
- Revenge porn will soon be illegal in England and Wales
- Chrome’s ‘always listening’ Voice Search extension does a Samsung Smart TV
- Good deal: Amazon gives away tons of apps for Valentine’s
11th February
- Apple’s spending $850 million to power its empire with solar energy
- Drug-driving law: Everything you need to know
- EE could plug gaps in 4G network with drones and balloons
- How smartphones can catch a killer
- Why Flipboard for the web should be your new homepage
- New Honda Civic Type R promises 167mph top speed
- Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 Review: In Depth
- Rural fibre ISP B4RN hits 800 customers, guns for 2,000 by end of 2015
- Food Network app launches for iOS and Android
- Premier League TV rights 2016-19: What games have Sky and BT got?
- UK government gives driverless car testing the go-ahead
- Why fitness wearables may be a waste of money
- Smartphone theft plummets in London, thanks to anti-theft measures
- EE promises 99 per cent 4G coverage by 2017
10th February
- Would you pay for your fuel with an app?
- Penny Dreadful season 2 bounced back to May 5th
- Watch the world’s worst back-seat driver in action
- CBBC’s Dixi updates for a second series on Safer Internet Day
- British drivers who speed abroad could lose their licence
- Sony launches Xperia E4g, an LTE phone for around £100
- Huawei Honor Holly Review: In Depth
- Safer Internet Day 2015: 13 per cent of kids are constantly bullied online
- Free TV streaming app TVPlayer bags Japanese channel NHK World
- SSE customers offered free Tado smart thermostat installation
- Don’t expect any new features in iOS 9
- HTC’s Desire 626 could be a Moto G beater
9th February
- Hyperoptic’s gigabit fibre broadband now in reach of 100,000 Brits
- Is this the cheapest fix for a broken reverse gear?
- The weirdest erotic apps to get your Fifty Shades on
- Chromecast owners can blag three months of free Now TV
- Samsung smart TVs in spying shocker: Voice recognition does what it’s supposed to
- Superfast broadband now available to 80 per cent of the UK
- So what’s the Ubuntu phone and is it any good?
- Rolls-Royce Nighthawk is a drop-top for the young and enviably rich
- At this rate, we’ll soon be doing exams naked
- Cringe along with HTC’s ‘Super Band’ in concert clips
- UKTV Play brings Dave and the gang to Android
6th February
- The terrifying ways we can spy on partners with smartphones
- 2015 Porsche Cayman GT4 is for the manual gears lover
- GCHQ’s sharing of NSA’s PRISM data was unlawful – but not any more
- Usain Bolt challenged to race against 500Mbps G.fast broadband
- The moment a police operator tells crash victim to ‘stop whining’
- Licence Fee decriminalisation debate put on ice ’til 2017
- Video: How to turn road rage into road revenge
- Why the Swatch SmartWatch could be the best wearable of 2015
- Snapdragon 810 back on track after heating issues solved?
- We call shenanigans on the Galaxy S6 ‘leaked photo’
5th February
- Huawei Honor 3C Review: In Depth
- Driver gets bus stuck on roundabout after taking shortcut
- 2016 Ford Focus RS vs 2009 Focus RS: Battle of the fast Fords
- Labour MP bashes BT for Tech City’s superslow broadband
- BT connects first 330Mbps fibre broadband customer in Northern Ireland
- Ofcom red cards Virgin Media’s bid to delay Premier League auction
- Twitter taking the torch to trolls
- Get ready for Katy Perry: the game
- BT and EE deal finalised: £12.5bn for 31 million mobile customers
4th February
- 2015 Vauxhall Corsa VXR is a 202bhp pocket rocket
- CityFibre deal could bring 4K CCTV to the streets of Newport
- Huawei lets fans set their own price for the new Honor Holly
- Hear the McLaren 675LT and its titanium exhaust pipes roar
- Smarter Coffee machine for lazy caffeine heads hits Firebox on pre-order
- Will Sky’s new Now TV Box offer 4K Ultra HD streams?
- Watch the elderly react to Grand Theft Auto V
- Sony 2015 BRAVIA sets to offer YouView AND Android TV
- LG unleashes curved 105-inch Ultra HD beast in the UK
- Samsung’s tiny new mobile chip means ultra-thin phones for all
- Apple ditching sapphire screens to focus on Siri and iCloud
- Game of Thrones tops Sky’s On Demand league table
- The weirdest and most cringe-worthy phone ads ever
- Sex up your Android lock screen with these free apps
3rd February
- Ferrari 488 GTB: Meet the turbocharged successor to the 458 Italia
- New Ford Focus RS promises monster 318bhp and all-wheel-drive
- Sky Sports yoinks exclusive Open Championship coverage off the BBC from 2017
- Rural Affairs Committee calls for 10Mbps broadband FOR ALL
- Free mobile SIMs, Sky Movies and Sky Sports prove a hit with TalkTalk customers
- Why Motorola will be massive in 2015
- Why you should pre-order the innovative Saygus V2 phone right now
- BT summons Gandalf to act as the Speaking Clock for Red Nose Day
2nd February
- Why the WhatsApp web ‘bug’ isn’t a big deal
- Drunk driver in wrecked car tells cops ‘the car is fine’
- How do I work out my monthly minutes, texts and data usage?
- Freesat misses 2 million mark despite strong growth
- How do I find the perfect phone tariff?
- Lexus RC F review
- Sky could launch a 4K UHD box with a cloud PVR this Spring
- Five things the Game of Thrones season five trailer HASN’T revealed
- Tesla improves Model S acceleration with software update
- Will the new Motorola Moto G 4G version be released in the UK?
- What’s a ‘3K’ screen and does the LG G4, or any phone, need one?