A BT Infinity ad promising “8x faster than the UK average broadband” has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for exaggerating and misleading viewers. The ad, which is still available on BT’s official YouTube account (and embedded below), must not appear again in its current form, the ASA ruled. Members of the public complained …

Three’s opened up with more detail on its 4G launch, planned for later in the year, with more towns and cities announced for this year and dozens on the roadmap for 2014. We already knew the numerical network was planning on covering Birmingham, London and Manchester with LTE loveliness before the end of the year, but Reading has been added …

Apple’s going to be all fingers and thumbs tonight. The iPhone 5S, due to be launched this evening at a glitzy event in California, will be the first Apple mobile to feature fingerprint technology dubbed Touch ID, according to reports. The much-rumoured identity-checking tech — further fuelled yesterday in leaked photos and videos of an altered home button — has …

You may have heard Apple’s hosting a modest little soiree tonight, with just Tim Cook and several hundred of his closest journalists. As it’s September, we’re confident we’re going to see new iPhones — but exactly what, dear friends, is a subject for enjoyable speculation. Will there be a fingerprint-scanning iPhone 5S? Will a cheery little plastic iPhone 5C grace …

Good heavens, that’s a big One. This giganto-slate is apparently a prototype HTC One tablet, snapped by a user of Chinese Twitter-alike Weibo and spotted by Ubergizmo. Since the One‘s enormous success, HTC has been rushing differently sized versions out the door, starting with the superb HTC One Mini, and heavily tipped to continue with the 5.9-inch HTC One Max …

A new Apple leak out of China apparently shows what the fruit-flavoured company’s phone lineup will look like after Tuesday night’s launch — and while the iPhone 5S is prominently featured, with new specs, the cheap iPhone 5C is nowhere to be seen. The specs sheet, which looks like an updated version of the comparison page you see on the …

For your second helping of iPhone 5S leakery today — after this morning’s specs sheet — we have this in-depth hands-on video, courtesy of deal-finders uSwitch.com. It’s a slightly odd ‘reveal’, because as the presenter explains, they’ve basically sourced all the components needed to make an iPhone 5S and then put them together. The bits don’t all match, so it …

Apple is set to launch a trade-in scheme that gives you money off your next iPhone in return for your old blower. The news comes ahead of Apple’s anticipated iPhone event on 10 September. An Apple representative confirmed to me that reports out of the US saying the scheme is starting today were accurate, but added it isn’t yet coming …

Apple’s low-cost new iPhone, widely known as the iPhone 5C, has popped up again in new leaked pics from China that appear to show the budget blower in its final retail packaging — and a charming shade of pink. The pic was spotted by Apple blog 9to5Mac on Chinese site iApps.im, which subsequently posted iPhones in the same boxes, but …

You might have only just gotten used to the wonder of Full HD on your tellybox, but Sky has already gone and transmitted the first event filmed in the UK in the next generation of high definition — Ultra HD. Sky Sports filmed Stoke beating West Ham 1-0 on Saturday using four Ultra HD cameras and transmitted the extremely well …