2012-02-03T11:34:04Z

Streams digital telly over its own Wi-Fi

TV tuner maker Hauppauge has introduced a mobile gadget that streams Freeview content to you phone, tablet or computer over its own wireless network.…

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2012-02-03T08:04:08Z

Set-top box software to be torn out and replaced over the net

UK hybrid TV service BT Vision plans to be the first customer to discard Microsoft's Mediaroom software, almost imminently, after at least a year-long effort to put in completely new software building blocks to rejuvenate the service.…

2012-02-01T11:44:04Z

Ex-PlayStation exec grabs reins as Stringer rises to board chairman

Sony has announced that a new president and CEO will take over from Howard Stringer on 1 April, while Stringer becomes chairman of the board.…

2012-01-24T13:41:24Z

Dubs self 'revolutionary figure', 'pioneer for justice'

Famous WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange™ says he will soon be presenting an unnamed weekly TV show via unspecified channels to a vast global audience.…

2012-01-24T12:38:10Z

Tearful Trekkie dismantles intergalactic flat

One Trekkie's dream of boldly going where no interior designer has gone before appears to be over – thanks to his estranged wife, who has decided his starship Voyager-themed flat isn't entirely suitable for the terrestrial housing market.…

2012-01-19T09:28:04Z

Brits' screen-break aversion doesn't bode well for desk job future

British youngsters have become so addicted to the internet that they will relieve themselves into bottles rather than step away from their screens to visit the lav, reports the, er, Sun.…

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2012-01-16T15:32:07Z

Come up with something better, Obama's three czars plead

The sponsor of the anti-piracy bill SOPA has agreed to drop DNS blocking of websites from the proposed legislation after a joint statement from leading White House officials.…

2012-01-12T12:04:10Z

Sues Andy Warhol Foundation over artwork deal with iPhone case-maker

Legendary New York band The Velvet Underground has filed a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation, after the deceased artist's company agreed to a licensing deal with a case- and sleeve-maker for Apple products.…

2012-01-11T09:04:09Z

Punters sick of top 1pc slurping third of all traffic

People-powered mobile phone network GiffGaff is debating how best to curb excessive data use, while kicking off a few customers considered to be really taking the biscuit.…

2012-01-10T13:41:11Z

Facebook and Vimeo squeezed into punters' TV time

CES 2012  Opera Software is making a play for turning your TV into a window-on-the-web with the announcement of Opera TV Store.…

2012-01-10T11:19:05Z

Video war kicks off. ZZzzz

Analysis  It isn't exactly your cliche of two bald men fighting over a comb, but victory in the battle royale between Netflix and Amazon's Lovefilm might not mean much to the eventual 'winner'.…

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2012-01-06T14:51:10Z

No finish line in sight for unhappy punters

London 2012 punters hoping to offload tickets they no longer want faced frustrating problems with a resale website, which was launched by the event's organisers today.…

2012-01-06T13:02:11Z

From Wendi Deng fake to Phobos-Grunt's fiery fate

Quotw  This was the week in which we learned that the techie surprise at the bottom of many, many Brits' Christmas stockings was some form of Amazon Kindle, if you believe pollster YouGov.…

2012-01-06T12:24:12Z

One of Redmond’s longest-running lines gets reboot

Microsoft has said that it will be reviving its Flight Simulator franchise this spring with a free version of the game entitled simply Flight.…

2012-01-06T06:03:09Z

Hip-hop star launches design institute stuffed with dope ... minds

Steve Jobs may have passed away, but his mantle has fallen on ready shoulders... those of the hip-hop artist Kanye West, who promised last night on Twitter that he would continue the great man's work.…

2012-01-05T16:33:08Z

E-reader could also head across the pond to Blighty

US bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook e-reader business into a separate entity as it forecast a drop in full-year earnings.…

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2012-01-03T12:04:10Z

Sesame Street pals star in eBooks for handsets

Nokia has released two interactive books documenting the happy-go-lucky lives of Sesame Street's residents, while apparently failing to notice that it has no tablet computers and has given up on Symbian.…

2012-01-03T08:02:04Z

Report of telly kit success misses the mark

Analysis  A very inward-looking report by Strategy Analytics, published last month, seems to ignore the entire Over the Top video market - and makes Apple an out-and-out winner with its $99 Apple TV device by taking 32 per cent of the Connected Home Device market in 2011.…

2011-12-28T15:31:09Z

First database of available frequencies gets January go-ahead

The FCC has announced that the world's first White Space database will go live on 26 January 2012, allowing unlicensed devices to find unused frequencies, as long as they're in Wilmington, North Carolina.…

2011-12-28T14:16:33Z

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again

One of Steve Jobs' final ambitions was to revolutionise television. And if supply-chain moles are telling the truth, we'll get to see what exactly the great man had in mind in a few months, when Apple's new iTVs start rolling off the production line.…

2011-12-28T13:29:04Z

All the news the Chinese want you to see

China has launched three TV channels onto Freeview HD, so now those few who are equipped with compatible, and connected, Freeview boxes can see how China sees the world.…

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2011-12-28T09:42:04Z

It knows what you did last summer and next summer

In another move by Facebook to predict user behaviour, the human herding site has introduced Suggested Events: a feature that will offer bright ideas for what you should do on Friday night. Zuckerberg knows how your little mind works.…

2011-12-22T11:42:10Z

Who knew the iSaint was part of the Staines massive?

Steve Jobs, who died in October this year, has been posthumously handed a Grammy award.…

2011-12-22T10:22:03Z

Still, sounds more thrilling than some of the proper channels

Ofcom is consulting on how to award Local TV licences, and has some suggestions about how the national broadcaster, and the channels, might make ends meet.…

2011-12-19T20:33:56Z

DIY content streaming on your gadgets

Virgin Australia passengers could soon enjoy the wonders of airborne WiFi under a joint development project with Lufthansa Systems.…

2011-12-16T12:24:06Z

Offering is biggest since Google

An online games company that derives most of its revenue from privately-held Facebook has raised $1bn in its initial public offering.…

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2011-12-16T11:41:12Z

Zeitgeist admits Apple is popular, no sign of Android

Google has acknowledged the global dominance of arch-rivals Apple as the Chocolate Factory's 2011 Zeitgeist chart shows Apple placed not just once but three times in the internet popularity contest.…

2011-12-16T11:06:09Z

Sidekick search starts as companion couple leave next series

Doctor Who is in the market for a brand new sidekick, as current companions Amy and Rory Pond will leave the show during the next series in a "heartbreaking" fashion.…

2011-12-16T10:16:04Z

Software that acts human named after human acting like software

Google are working on a voice-recognising Siri-beater say the blogs, and it's going to be called Majel. Google phones have had voice control for donkey's years but the Majel app will be better than the old stuff says a Google insider quoted on AndroidandMe.…

2011-12-14T10:21:10Z

From Millennium Falcon manual to USB sticks

With the shops jammed and checkout lines up the wazoo, it would be forgivable to buy Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray from Amazon for The Wars fan in your life, and think "job done".…

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2011-12-13T14:42:03Z

There's a lot of them out there

A new music streaming service launches today in 23 territories, the biggest launch so far. You're unlikely to want to sign up - it's aimed not at the tech-savvy user but at someone who has broadband but finds Spotify too complex.…

2011-12-11T22:00:08Z

Twisted path back to Blighty for ABC archival tapes

The BBC has announced that two of the “missing” 1960s-era Dr Who episodes have turned up and been added to the Beeb’s archives.…

2011-12-08T09:23:03Z

Mum abuses son 'with a bar of soap', author David Guterson explains

US author David Guterson has walked off with this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for an admirable contribution to the genre in his novel Ed King.…

2011-12-07T13:18:11Z

Hollywood star - glued to word game - gets marching orders

Alec Baldwin claimed he was booted off a plane at Los Angeles international airport yesterday, after a flight attendant complained about him playing with a game on his mobile phone.…

2011-12-05T11:11:08Z

xBox xmas

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Dashboard update this week will introduce a smart phone application that turns your Windows Phone handset into an Xbox system remote.…

2011-12-02T13:59:03Z

Moffatt says no film yet ... but if there was one, it'd be British

TV writer Steven Moffat has dismissed rumours of a Doctor Who movie coming soon, despite comments from director David Yates, supposedly in the driving seat for the adaptation.…

2011-12-01T12:44:08Z

Tough love when it comes to streaming movies online

Lovefilm has sensationally ditched Flash in favour of Microsoft's Silverlight technology, in a move that snubs Linux users and appeases film studios.…

2011-11-30T15:32:04Z

'Fu*king idiots', thunders Daniel Craig

James Bond thesp Daniel Craig has savaged the highly talented and decorative Kardashian clan, branding the celebutard minx pack "fu*king idiots".…

2011-11-30T11:00:05Z

Talkin' about My Girl

The TT Type 40, Mark 3 – it sounds like a motorbike made by BSA. But it is, as any fan will tell you, it is the model of the Doctor’s TARDIS, in which he departed without permission from Time Lord homeworld Gallifrey between 700 and 900 years ago – though we space-and-science-fiction nerks only got to start tuning in in 1963.…

2011-11-29T17:06:07Z

Five-point scale to separate PG from adult-only filth

Apps could be scored on sex and violence if Apple and Google approve a voluntary rating system proposed by the American Wireless Association, the CITA, and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).…

2011-11-29T15:46:10Z

Universal Music accuses streaming site in court docs

Music streaming site Grooveshark paid employees by the amount of music they illegally uploaded to the site, filings in a lawsuit allege. Universal Music says Grooveshark's own staff submitted at least 100,000 sound recordings "to boost [owner] Escape's library of infringing content and to make the service more attractive to prospective users".…

2011-11-29T13:12:05Z

It actually produces content, too...

It has been five years since Apple unveiled its TV tuner – and it increasingly looks like Cupertino missed the boat.…

2011-11-29T12:22:03Z

Game items offered to punters who change their passwords

An estimated 13 million gamers have been left at greater risk of ID theft following a breach at gaming firm Nexon.…

2011-11-29T11:51:05Z

The world of Muvizu

Comment  Tech startups that can truly be considered game-changers are rare - especially in Shoreditch. The more hype that the Silicon Roundabout "leisure startup" scene receives, the more painfully apparent it is that the emperor has no clothes – see these comments for example. Which is a pity, for less attention is paid to genuinely creative British tech startups.…

2011-11-29T10:41:12Z

Dying service embraces dead OS with latest wireless tech

Symbian users who like to check in to Foursquare, but hate having to run the application, can now just tap their handset to let the world know where they are.…

2011-11-29T10:32:03Z

Brutal truth from the Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello wants fans to shun a limited edition box-set of his music priced at over £200 when it goes on sale next month.…

2011-11-29T01:13:16Z

'Read my lips, Xbox: Halo sucks'

The next version of Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing platform is reportedly so advanced that it will be able to read your lips and sense your mood.…

2011-11-28T12:41:11Z

RIP Tommy helmsman

Obit  Filmmaker Ken Russell, the controversial helmsman who brought the world Women in Love and Tommy, died yesterday aged 84.…

2011-11-25T18:29:07Z

Youthful gadgetmeister joins Skyfall cast

Brit thesp Ben Whishaw will play Q in forthcoming Bond outing Skyfall, the BBC reports.…

2011-11-25T11:17:03Z

German boffins crack HDCP with $200 gear

German boffins have pulled off a successful attack on HDCP copy protection – using cheap hardware and a lot of clever coding.…