— Aardman And Digital Outlook Launch Characters On Bebo: Wallace & Gromit producer Aardman and Digital Outlook studios have co-produced a set of musical characters for teens, which are debuting…

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- Five News: In a rare online move, the fifth channel’s news show is to be carried on MySpace TV. NMA said a daily bulletin will be “co-branded” so it…

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Tiscali has appointed board member Mario Rosso its new CEO after the resignation of Tommaso Pompei yesterday - and it looks like his main task will be to steer the…

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BBC iPlayer has tripled ISP traffic costs, according to one carrier. BT-owned, Sheffield-based PlusNet reported a record customer bandwidth spike in January, 66 percent more streaming content used since December…

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ISPs have hit back at mounting criticism—and pending regulatory action—that they are not doing enough to halt digital piracy. After months of vociferous complaints from music and film companies and…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) committed a full £103 million to its broadband rollout in the second half of 2007 - and saw its customer base grow 260,000 to 1.199 million. The…

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In recent weeks, the music business, software publishers and U2’s manager have supported French moves to make ISPs monitor and kick off customers engaging in illegal P2P - but Telefonica…

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MySpace and BBC Worldwide are partnering to deliver new and archived short-form BBC content through MySpaceTV. The deal is described as the first global agreement between MySpace and a major…

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CacheLogic, a Cambridge, UK-based P2P technology firm, has raised another big round: it has received $25 million in new fourth round of funding, according to Dan Rayburn, and has raised…

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Tiscali’s CEO expects to sell the business to bigger rivals within two years. Tommaso Pompei told FT.com he saw few acquisition targets for the company so it’s more likely Tiscali…

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- Virgin Media: Philippines-based customer support call centre operator eTelecare will set up a UK subsidiary after winning a contract from Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED). The company told the Philippine…

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Carphone Warehouse gained 118,000 net new broadband subscribers in the quarter to December 29, taking it up to 2.6 million, and the TalkTalk churn rate held steady. It helped fixed-line…

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- CNET: CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks may be facing a fight to control its board at home in San Francisco, but here in the UK the tech publisher’s flagship CNET.co.uk…

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Lucky Ebbsfleet. BT’s (NYSE: BT) Openreach network access unit will join Virgin in testing next-generation access in the Kent town. It will lay down fibre to a planned 10,000-home estate…

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Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning to roll out a UK mobile phone service in the last three months of 2008, according to Telegraph.co.uk. It’s currently in discussions with the…

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The BBC is looking to alleviate ISPs’ concerns over iPlayer’s bandwidth consumption by trialling an effort to cache VOD shows at providers’ local exchanges. The corporation’s digital media technology head…

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Here’s another reason for Ofcom to convince telcos to build high-speed open networks - the very future of the BBC’s online provision. The broadcaster’s future media and technology director Ashley…

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British consumers are getting some of the best deals for broadband, mobile and television services in Europe, thanks to cheap bundled services, according to an exhaustive report from Ofcom, looking…

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Last week in Los Angeles, we had our Year-End Review panel and ContentNext Mixer. The one -hour panel on digital video/entertainment in 2008 touched on a lot of points, and…

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- Blinkx: The London- and San Francisco-based video search index is doing a deal to show videos from HIT Entertainment’s Guinness World Records’ video vault, a repository of records and…

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- Current TV: The Al Gore-owned progressive video website and TV channel is doing a Bebo. Where the social network this month launched Open Media, a “platform” play to entice…

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[With Dianne See Morrison] If the UK’s broadband network is to be upgraded to the kinds of speeds enjoyed in South Korea, somebody’s going to have to pay for it…

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Virgin Media’s TV video-on-demand service has more viewers that Five, reports the Guardian. Speaking at the European Media Leaders Summit in London, content chief Malcolm Wall reported that thirty million…

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UK competitiveness minister Stephen Timms wants telecoms companies to invest in faster broadband networks, warning that current speeds could imperil the country’s economy. Timms who has identified broadband as a…

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-Adoption: The proportion of internet users on broadband connections rose 2.2 percent between June and September, Office for National Statistics figures show. In September, 88.4 percent of internet users were…

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