Well looky here. No sooner do we bring you news that a high-street phone retailer is prepping its staff on how to sell the iPhone 5 (as if they’ll need any help shifting them), than a German retailer pops up and starts doling out pre-orders for the handset. Talk about stoking the fire. Hang on, you may well be saying, …

ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are about to go HD. The commercial channels have been invited by TV bosses to fill a fifth high-definition slot on Freeview. Television regulator Ofcom is inviting broadcasters to apply for the extra HD slot on Freeview digital terrestrial TV. The fifth slot will go to a commercial public service broadcaster: either an ITV …

Fed up of fiddling with file formats to get them to play back on your TV? Well BitTorrent could have the answer, with its own TV that will not only download and share media, but play it back too. And if you’re thinking of dialling 999, wait a second. The media BitTorrent is talking about is videos you’ve made yourself, …