Neowin News Feed for: England

Revealed: These UK cities have the fastest and slowest broadband speeds

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:00:01 +0000

A new report from Broadband Genie has found out which UK cities have the fastest and slowest broadband. Interestingly, the best performers were widely distributed around the UK nations. Read more...

Xbox has become the official partner for England's national football teams

Paul Hill — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:40:02 +0000

England's Football Association has named Xbox as the gaming partner of the English national football teams - the Three Lions, the Lionesses, and the eLions team. More details will be shared soon. Read more...

NHS COVID-19 app hobbled to reduce number of ‘pings'

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:40:01 +0000

The NHS COVID-19 app has received an update that will see fewer people receive self-isolation alerts. The government faced criticism after 600,000 people were pinged in a single week in July. Read more...

Footy fans can rejoice on Sunday as EE zero-rates mobile data

Paul Hill — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 22:02:01 +0000

EE has said it will zero-rate data on its mobile network this Sunday between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight so that more people can tune into the Euro 2020 final between England and Italy. Read more...

Google and Apple block NHS COVID-19 app update over privacy issues

Paul Hill — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:22:01 +0000

The England and Wales NHS COVID-19 app has had an update blocked by Google and Apple. The tech firms said that the update would go against privacy rules which the government initially agreed to. Read more...

RootMetrics says EE is the mobile carrier to beat in the UK

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:02:01 +0000

EE has come out as the best mobile carrier around the UK in RootMetrics' latest report. The authors did over half a million tests around the country to find out which carriers were most reliable. Read more...

NHS COVID-19 app removes possible exposure notifications

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:28:01 +0000

The NHS COVID-19 app has been updated. It removes possible exposure and near-miss notifications, improves the distance measurements and lowers the threshold for isolation notifications. Read more...

UK's numerous contact tracing apps to become interoperable

Paul Hill — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:44:01 +0000

The coronavirus contact tracing apps across the UK will also speak to one another from November meaning that users don't have to download different apps if they cross borders to other nations. Read more...

NHS contact tracing app receives fix for scary notification

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:00:01 +0000

A new update has been published for the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app. The update addresses a scary notification that tells users they may have been exposed to COVID-19 without further explanation. Read more...

England and Wales COVID-19 contact tracing app launches

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:22:01 +0000

England and Wales have finally released their COVID-19 contact tracing app for Android and iOS. Scotland and Northern Ireland independently released their own contact tracing apps. Read more...

Cyberflashing law reforms set to come to England and Wales

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:02:02 +0000

The Law Commission has put forward some reforms for the U.K. government to look at, they include the criminalisation of cyberflashing and pile-on harassment but increase the criminality threshold. Read more...

England and Wales to launch COVID tracing app on Sept. 24

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:00:01 +0000

England and Wales will launch their new coronavirus contact tracing app to the general public on September 24. It will let people know if they've come into contact with the virus and need to isolate. Read more...

UK: Campaigners call for anonymity in revenge porn cases and better police training

Paul Hill — Sun, 19 May 2019 08:58:01 +0000

Campaigners and experts have made calls for victims of revenge porn to be given anonymity when they report a crime. Revenge porn cases also saw a 23% drop in charges in recent years. Read more...

Ofcom claims that a majority of UK homes and businesses can access ultra-fast broadband

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 May 2019 04:08:01 +0000

Ofcom has released a new report which suggests that the majority (53%) of premises in the UK now have access to ultra-fast broadband which is defined as having download speeds above 300Mbit/s. Read more...

UK: Vodafone will launch 5G in 19 towns and cities this year

Paul Hill — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:58:02 +0000

Vodafone has announced that it will launch its 5G network to the public in 19 cities and towns this year. The announcement comes just months after it concluded a successful trial of 5G. Read more...

UK government is encouraging public sector organisations to use Office 365

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:18:02 +0000

The UK government is to begin encouraging public sector organisations to use Office 365. Microsoft outlined that the move would save the government money, enhance co-operation, and bolster security. Read more...

UK's West Midlands becomes the first region to get 5G pilot scheme

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:59:26 +0000

The UK's West Midlands region has been selected as the first area which participate in the Government's 5G Testbed pilot scheme. The region will use the tech to develop several important sectors. Read more...

A passenger aircraft almost collided with a drone

Daniel Hull — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 01:38:01 +0000

A report has confirmed that a passenger aircraft almost collided with a drone flying at 500ft above a primary school in Birmingham, England. The incident is amongst 60 other reported near collisions. Read more...

Digital purchases now protected in new UK consumer rights law

Matt Blowes — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:44:01 +0000

Apps, games, movies and more - they're all included under the UK's new Consumer Rights Act which explicitly protects digital purchases for the first time but not to the same extent as physical goods. Read more...

UK preps 25% 'Google Tax' for dodgy tech companies

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 10:54:01 +0000

Ahead of a major election, the UK government is proposing a 25% tax on technology companies that transfer their profits off-shore in an effort to avoid paying higher local taxes. Read more...

Free Wi-Fi is coming to train services across England and Wales by 2017

Andy Weir — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:20:01 +0000

The UK government is spending £47.8m to bring fast, reliable and free Wi-Fi to trains in five rail franchise areas across England and Wales - including the new TSGN super-franchise - from 2017. Read more...

Editorial: Moving from QWERTY to QWERTZ on short notice

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:48:52 +0000

Paul Ferson talks about his experiences with switching from QWERTY, the only keyboard layout he'd ever used, to QWERTZ, in order to properly review the Matias Tactile Pro 3.0 keyboard. Read more...

Did iPhone 4S's Siri tell a 12 year old to "shut the f*** up"?

John Callaham — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:15:14 +0000

A British tabloid reports that a 12 year old in the UK trying out the Siri voice recognition feature in the iPhone 4S said Siri response to one question was "Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***." Read more...

7 million 'criminal' downloaders in UK

James Hall — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:20:47 +0000

According to the BBC, more than seven million people in Britain are illegally downloading copyrighted materials. Given the numbers involved, these cannot be all students. While many of these "criminals" do not know what they... Read more...

Church of England Threatens Sony with Legal Action

Joe Cashman — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:06:35 +0000

The Church of England is threatening legal action against Sony, because footage of a Manchester Cathedral was used without permission in the game, Resistance: Fall of Man. The church has said that Sony did not... Read more...

Cisco Source Code Thief Arrested in England

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:07:33 +0000

A 20-year old man was arrested in England on September 3rd for the alleged theft of proprietary source code used by Cisco Systems. No formal charges have been brought against the man (who's identity has... Read more...

UK News: Bank of England email scam

Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:30:53 +0000

Yup, it's another scam email sent in a spoofy manner by a load of merchant bankers... The Bank of England says it has intercepted over 100,000 fraudulent e-mails masquerading as computer... Read more...

UK News: England 1 - 0 Argentina

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:32:01 +0000

England have won a famous victory over deadly World Cup rivals Argentina. Sven Goran Eriksson's team held on for a nail-biting win after skipper David Beckham converted a penalty a minute before half time when... Read more...

Gateway pulls out of Ireland and England

Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:40:58 +0000

Reiterating its plans to concentrate on the U.S. market, Gateway confirmed Monday that it will pull out of Ireland and England. The direct PC seller, which also recently exited Asia, had notified its... Read more...