Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has told paidContent.co.uk it intends to appeal two seperate copyright cases it lost in Hamburg, Germany today over its unauthorised indexing of an artist’s work and a…

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The European Commission may put a stop to the £14 million in funding that Ofcom has proposed giving Channel 4 to help it pay for its switch to digital and…

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There’s now little chance of Project Kangaroo - rumoured to be named “See-Saw” - launching in February, as the JV’s revised plans had hoped. The Competition Commission this afternoon said…

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All Sky’s regulatory inquiries are coming home to roost. In two new Ofcom rulings today… -- New pay-TV rules: The regulator plans to force BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to offer its…

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The ruling’s in, and the the Competition Appeals Tribunal has dismissed BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) appeal against the Competition Commission’s earlier ruling that it reduce its ITV (LSE: ITV) stake to…

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By Jemima Kiss: Norway is pushing ahead with its mission to get Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to change its long-running locked-down content system. Consumer ombudsman Erik Thon is taking the firm…

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We haven’t, to my mind, even hit on a workable definition of “Web 2.0” yet (and it’s questionable whether iterations can even be appropriately applied to the web at all),…

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The UK government’s department for children, school and families has named several digital media execs to the board of the new UK Council for Child Internet Safety. They include… --…

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European parliamentarians have voted for wide-ranging telecoms regulation reform, including an amendment that would force ISPs to go to court before disconnecting alleged filesharers at content owners’ behest. It’s a…

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The second phase of Ofcom’s lengthy public service broadcasting, out today, calls for websites to offer more links to public service web content. The regulator wants to make public content…

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Legal music services are going to have to give consumers a much better experience than the usual downloading a song for free, but what those services might look like is…

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It’s clear that BPI CEO Geoff Taylor has his hands full. As the head of the UK record industry’s trade association, he has had a long slog trying to get…

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The maximum charge for text messaging within the European Union has been set at 11 euro cents, EU telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding confirmed in an interview with German magazine Der…

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The proposed ad partnership between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to gather opposition… The latest is the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which is pushing the European…

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Behavioral ad targeter Phorm will be allowed to operate its ad serving system in the UK, but regulators say the company must adhere to a strict set of rules, BBC…

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The European Commission has cleared Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) acquisition of BMG’s 50 percent stake in their Sony-BMG JV, creating Sony Music Entertainment. The EC ruled the acquisition “would not lead…

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We pretty much knew the European Commission would be looking over Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) planned deal to run ads from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) when the portal finally informed the continent’s…

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BT’s (NYSE: BT) Vision IPTV platform has added its “serious competition concerns” to those already given about Project Kangaroo to the Competition Commission by others including Joost, Lovefilm, independent TV…

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The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) this morning asked the US Department of Justice, the European Commission and the Competition Bureau of Canada to block the deal under which Google…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is scrapping its plan to launch a pay-TV platform on top of Freeview, before Ofcom has even had the chance to rule it out. The digital terrestrial…

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Following European telecom commissioner Viviane Reding’s call last week to reduce and cap roaming data and SMS charges (see our post), news orgs claims to have seen specific prices in…

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-- Setanta: Setanta Sports has got carriage from Inuk, the south Wales-based IPTV operator whose FreewireTV service pipes channels to PCs in students’ halls of residence rooms. It’s part of…

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Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- What’s Happening With Vivendi Games Mobile? Possible Sale Coming: What is going on with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit…

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Ofcom has opened a wide-ranging consultation on the UK mobile sector, in order to prepare the industry for “a second mobile revolution, bringing together the ease and portability of mobile…

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So you thought you’d fritter some time away playing Scrabulous over the Bank Holiday? No such luck. A few weeks after developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla shut down access to…

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