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BT adds HD, Sky Movies and Kids bolt-ons to TV packages
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BT has revamped its TV packages around a series of flexible ‘bolt-ons’ which customers can add on a monthly basis. Until recently BT offered a choice of Pay As You Go or unlimited access to its on-demand library or music, TV Box Sets and archive films. Earlier this summer it introduced the option to add…
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Video – Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Dead Man’s Folly
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In an effort to beguile their Devonshire neighbours, wealthy financier Sir George Stubbs (Sean Pertwee) and his ‘subnormal’ wife Hattie (Stephanie Leonidas) prepare to stage a grand summer fête in the grounds of their new acquisition, Nasse House. No expense is spared, and the lawn is soon bustling with visitors keen to have their…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier first trailer
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Here’s the first official teaser poster for Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier which gets its UK release on March 28th, 2014. After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the…
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Three quarters of UK homes have access to super-fast broadband
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Almost three quarters of UK homes have access to super-fast cable and fibre broadband according to a report from Ofcom. The telecoms regulator says 73% of UK homes have access to speeds of at least 30Mbit/s through services such as Virgin Media’s cable broadband and BT’s Infinity fibre product. Despite the widespread availability of super-fast…
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New Mac OS X update brings iBooks to desktops and laptops
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Apple has finally added support for iBooks to Mac OS X, the operating system for its desktop and laptop models.
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BBC announces 20m iPlayer app downloads
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rThe BBC says its iPlayer app for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets has been downloaded over 20 million times, driving the take-up of mobile TV watching. Viewing on mobiles and tablets is now more popular than TV viewing on PCs according to the BBC which says mobile device users made 70 million TV requests…