Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will begin offering 50Mbps broadband in the second half of the year and mobile broadband dongles in Q4. Virgin is late to the UK’s booming broadband…

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As if it weren’t clear from their recent memorandum of understanding with the BPI and government, the UK’s biggest ISPs are actively looking to create commercial music services that would…

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New online video rights-selling intermediary Myvideorights has signed TV producer All3Media amongst the first contributors to its catalogue. The service was launched in March by Kelvin Mackenzie’s son Ashley to…

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-- Blinkx: Of the many press releases put out by video search site Blinkx (four so far today), one of the most significant is the announcement it is now making…

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-- Flirtomatic: UK web and mobile “flirting service” Flirtomatic is partnering with broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 (FRA: PSM) to launch in Germany. The site has started a German version in readiness for…

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Narrowstep, the online video service provider founded by RCN founder David McCourt in 2006, has been sold to another video provider Onstream Media, in an all stock-transaction. Under the deal,…

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-- Ofcom: The media regulator is deregulating the wholesale broadband market for 70 percent of the UK, dropping a compulsion that BT (NYSE: BT) supplies its Datastream network access product…

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-- MSN: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has added Messenger TV to its Windows Live Messenger in 20 countries, including this one, allowing IM users to simultaneously watch and share programming from…

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Tiscali’s sale appears to have garnered interest from a gamut of first-round bidders. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), BT (NYSE: BT), Carphone Warehouse, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), Swisscom’s Fastweb and Wind all put…

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Spot Runner, which helps marketers buy TV ad spots on local cable and broadcast using its online service, has raised a big $51 million fourth round from an international group…

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Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi, which bought TV and broadband news and community site DigitalSpy this month, promises concerned forum users it won’t change the site following the acquisition, says new…

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That should settle the matter then. Asked his opinion yesterday by MPs on the House Of Commons’ media and business committees, Ofcom CEO Ed Richards said: “(The BBC paying ISPs)…

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-- French IPTV: France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is the largest IPTV operator in the world, with 1.1 million subscribers, says a new report from Telecommunications Management Group (TMG). Globally, there…

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And yet, the funding keeps flowing in: EQAL, the new name of the production company behind the pioneering online video series Lonelygirl15, has received $5 million in funding from various…

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London-based interactive agency Channel7Media has bought New York City-based video production company IndelibleTV, to help build out online video capabilities for its clients. IndelibleTV’s client list includes AOL (NYSE: TWX),…

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-- FHM.com/MoMedia: Mobile and web video production house MoMedia, in which Endemol owns a stake, has signed a deal with Bauer (formerly Emap) men’s mag site FHM.com to supply Kamikaze…

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Highlights from a conflict-laden weekend… -- Virgin vs publishers: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is “already in talks with unnamed content providers about paying to have their content delivered faster than…

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- Video metrics: Two years after it launched in the US, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is bringing its Video Metrix web video tracking rankings to the UK, France, Germany and Canada.…

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MySpace has signed a distribution deal with UK TV production house ShineReveille that’s intended to expand the reach of their original programming internationally and online, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…

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The BBC is launching a version of its iPlayer TV catch-up for Nintendo’s Wii console, the broadcaster announced with the game maker at MipTV. The service will be offered as…

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- Warner Bros: The movie studio is to make some films available over VOD platforms the same day they go on sale as DVDs. The studio is giving Sky Box…

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- PCC web complaints: You know you’re having an influence when people start to complain about you - and more readers are now complaining about online newspaper articles than print…

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Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) may be ready to tow the BPI’s three-strikes line to warn, then disconnect illegal music downloaders - not so Carphone Warehouse. In a scathing letter, CEO…

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- BBC bandwidth dialogue: BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield has penned a manifesto urging industry collaboration in response to concerns over IPTV and the possibility ISPs could…

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Next in online media - funeral services webcast live online. The price to viewers? £75 a go. Reuters reports that crematoria services provider Wesley Music is striking deals with crematoria…

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