Tag archive: Sky

The four largest Internet service providers in the UK will soon allow customers to block all pornography, or to purposefully choose to see the sexually explicit material, reports the Guardian. The controversial move is part of the government's attempts to cut down on Internet pornography. UK Prime Minister David Cameron will announce the new guidelines during meetings with the Mother's Union, which has launched a mission earlier… Read More

Many a broadband customer has been excited to pay extra money and upgrade their service to new high-bandwidth technologies that promise they'll be able to download movies and music in just seconds. However, a nearly equal number of broadband customers have also been dismayed when, once everything is hooked up, they rarely seem to get anywhere near the amount of bandwidth their ISPs claim to be selling them. Now the UK's… Read More

BSkyB – or Sky, as it’s generally known – rules the satellite TV market in the UK, and has begun to wade into broadband. Now it’s planning to start a subscription Internet music service this year, using tracks from the massive Universal catalogue. Although neither date nor pricing have been set yet, according to the BBC, the tracks, which will be streamed for a flat fee that also allows for a certain number of… Read More

Could there eventually be a single gaming platform rather than all the different, competing consoles? That’s the dream of game publisher Electronic Arts.  Talking to the BBC, Gerhard Florin, EA’s head of international publishing, pointed out that the company currently produced games for 14 different formats,but he could see a future that relied more on games being streamed to PC or set-top boxes. At present in the UK, BT and Sky… Read More