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Five Broadband Suppliers Agree To Mandatory Compensation
Broadband Suppliers Agree To Mandatory Compensation There is perhaps nothing more frustrating these days than having your internet connection drop out. I can personally relate to this not just for personal reasons, but also for work. Put simply, if I don’t have the internet, I can’t work or game and…
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John Lewis Stop Selling DVD Players Due To Poor Sales
DVD Players Due To Poor Sales See Massive Decline In Sales In the late 90’s, DVD technology arrived. Offering much better quality in terms of both images and sounds, it was very quickly adopted by many people. It was initially rather expensive and if you were anything like me, the…
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Comcast Agrees The Purchase Of UK’s Sky TV
Comcast Agrees The Purchase Of UK’s Sky TV You may not have been aware of it, but companies such as Fox and Sky have effectively been accepting bids over the last 6-months for their purchase. With Rupert Murdoch owning a significant portion of Sky, it was believed for a while that…
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Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight!
Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight! Tonight will mark one of the more spectacular occasions in terms of astronomy. In the night’s sky, we will be treated to the longest ‘blood moon‘ we have seen so far in the 21st century. That is, of course, assuming you have…
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UK Man Jailed For Selling Illegal Sky TV Streaming Devices
UK Man Jailed For Selling Illegal Sky TV Streaming Devices If you really enjoy your TV programs, then, unfortunately, these days you are almost required to have a subscription TV service of some type. Be it Now TV, Netflix, or Sky, if you want to watch all the popular programs,…
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Netflix And Sky Offer Combined TV Package
Sky and Netflix Having a TV package these days is practically necessary. Well, not necessarily, but unless you’re happy with the basic channels and repeats of Judge Judy, there isn’t much to watch. This has led many to take on paid TV subscriptions such as Netflix or Sky. There is,…
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Sky Announces Plans To Ditch The Satellite Dish
Sky Plan To Ditch Satellite Dishes These days, the option of having some form of home TV subscription is so common it’s practically standard. When it comes to certain providers, however, your option can be limited. For example, Virgin Media generally requires that your home has a cable connection. Sky,…
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Freeview Not Working in Parts of the UK
Freeview TV is down for parts of the UK It’s incredible to think that it has been 10 years now since the UK started the switch to digital TV. Taking 5 years over regions, the last analog signal was shut down in 2012 and ever since the UK has been…
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UK ISP Fibre Broadband Advertising to be Investigated
After years of misleading customers, UK ISP fibre broadband advertising is set to be investigated after the ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) finally look to be responding to ever-increasing complaints. Currently in the UK, only Virgin run fibre cables to your house by default. They do not use Openreach and have…
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Eurocom Launches Sky X9E3 Portable Supercomputer
Eurocom is well known for their out-of-this-world laptops, although calling the latest model a lap-top might be optimistic. The Sky X9E3 weighs 5.5 kg and measures 428 by 308 by 47.2 mm, but it packs a punch to justify these numbers. Not only can you equip it with Kaby Lake i7…
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No Man’s Sky Developer Settles Absurd Legal Dispute
Legal disputes can often arise when companies with a particular name feel their brand is being used to promote another product. In the majority of cases, these disputes are extremely petty and revolve around a term which is widely used as part of the English language. The latest example involves Sean…
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Was This the First Recorded Death by Meteorite?
An Indian man who died after a mysterious blast at a private engineering college could be the first recorded death by meteorite, if reports are confirmed. A bus driver, identified only as Kamaraj, was killed – with three others injured – after an explosion at the Bharathidasan Engineering College in…
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A Visual Photographic Collage Of China’s Air Pollution
China’s air quality is poor to say the least, recent reports of families having to use an air purifier in their own homes to avoid breathing the air is quite shocking. The atmosphere in China has become worse over time to the point whereby it is difficult to recall a…
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Sky Broadband to Block Porn by Default in 2016
From the start of 2016, UK internet service provider Sky Broadband will automatically block “adult content”, including pornography, by default, according to The Telegraph. Sky will be implementing its existing Broadband Shield content filter – a system that was previously optional to customers – as standard for its new customers.…
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New Building In London Includes “Sky Pool”
For many swimming is a relaxing past time, the feeling of water rushing over you as you dive beneath the surface and are engulfed by a fundamental element that sustains us. Many enjoy diving to the bottom of the pool so they can touch the bottom and feel the accomplishment…
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