Tesco’s new Clubcard TV gives members of its loyalty card scheme a Netflix-style streaming TV service for absolutely free. Unfortunately, instead of the sexy, cerebral delights of House of Cards, you’ll be watching ancient repeats of Two Pints of Lager and Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression. Tesco Value Clubcard TV boasts “hours of BBC Worldwide content” …

Netflix’ home-made high-class political thriller isn’t staying online-only for long — you can buy the full first season of House of Cards on DVD and Blu-ray from 10 June (or 11 June in the US), according to Amazon UK. The David Fincher-helmed potboiler is available to pre-order now for £21.50 on DVD or £28 on Blu-ray. Both come with an …

EE is today offering passengers in London and Birmingham cabs the chance to experience the UK’s only 4G network. It’s free in taxis for the next three months — by which time you might be able to sign up to a much cheaper 4G network. A superfast Wi-Fi network is perhaps the last thing you’d expect to find in a …

Simply changing to a new handset manufacturer can be a daunting prospect for many consumers, but when you’re changing operating systems as well, the worry seems to increase exponentially. BB10, but not on a BlackBerry.(Screenshot by CNET Australia) BlackBerry’s Z10 (and upcoming Q10) involves a whole new hardware and OS experience, even for old-school BlackBerry fans, so it’s not surprising …

Facebook is coming for your homescreen. The social network’s new version of Android is rumoured to be called Facebook Home, and will take over your Android phone’s home screen to display updates from your friends. According to 9to5Google, Facebook Home is the name for software that will integrate Facebook features such as Messenger, photos, and contacts into your Android phone. …

Futuremark’s 3DMark benchmark uses an impressive graphics engine to stress your tablet’s or smartphone’s GPU to its limits. Screenshot by Eric Franklin/CNET As a lifelong gamer, 3D performance (and by “3D” I mean polygonal, not stereoscopic) in tablets is something of particular interest to me. Over the last couple of years, I’ve watched mobile devices increase in performance, getting closer …

Rumours of Amazon creating a Kindle phone have been reignited after a former Windows Phone general manager popped up at the company — and he’s hiring. Charlie Kindel, a former mobile developer guru at Microsoft, has joined Amazon to lead a mysterious project. Abruptly leaving Microsoft in mid-2011, Kindel’s LinkedIn profile now lists him as “at Amazon working on something …

Android has grabbed the lead over iOS in the battle for U.S. smartphone buyers, according to a report out yesterday from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. From mid-November through mid-February, Android increased its share of U.S. smartphone sales to 51.2 percent, up from 45 percent during the same three-month period in 2012. Over the same time, Apple’s iOS dropped to second place …

The HTC One may have scored a decent four out of five in our review, but it’s fared less well in another test. A lot less well. The screwdriver-wielders over at iFixit cracked open the flagship in one of its trademark teardowns, to see what it’s made of and how repairable it is. It scored the lowest of any handset iFixit …

Mega! Samsung has reportedly turned to 1980s slang to name its next line of mid-sized tablets: successors to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 could be called the Samsung Galaxy Mega range. If Sammobile is correct, the Samsung Mega lineup will kick off with 5.8- and 6.3-inch devices roughly halfway through the year. If you’re not sure about the name, at …