The BBC has refuted a report it is to abandon the Kontiki content delivery product that powers its iPlayer desktop application. C21 yesterday claimed: “The BBC iPlayer will cease using…

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Will other brands join Tesco on “the moral high ground?” Or, will the supermarket chain find itself standing alone following its decision not to bid for trademarked keywords on Google?…

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-- BBC mulls OpenID: The BBC is announcing support for OpenID. Sort of. The broadcaster said it had joined the OpenID Foundation, leading the decentralised identity system that allows users…

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Joseph at our sister site paidContent.org reports Cuill, a start-up promising “a new approach to search”, has raised a big $25 million second round led by Madrone Capital Partners. Still…

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WiFi-sharing community Fon has raised a $9.5 million third round of funding to take the service to Russia and upgrade its product offering. Spain-based Fon, launched in February 2006, lets…

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Kenshoo, an Israeli search engine marketer, has raised an unspecified second round from VC firm Arts Alliance. The investment follows closely on the heals of its first round, from Sequoia,…

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UK operator O2 has admitted limiting the speed of most of its customers’ 3G connections to 128 kbps, instead of the 384 kbps the technology is capable of, reports The…

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The European Commission just confirmed earlier reports it will begin an in-depth inquiry in to Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of GPS mapping provider Navteq. It was always…

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The days of “flight mode” could be numbered. UK telecom regulator Ofcom today ratified plans to allow mobile communications on airplanes in Europe. The proposal first have to be agreed…

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- Virgin 50 Mbps: Nine million VMED customers will have access to 50 Mbps cable this year, the company said, considering best methods for rollout: “Unlike big routed networks, we…

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Europe’s internet search project—Quaero—has gotten a lot of flak for taking government money to create an alternative to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The noise level has only increased after the EU…

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In a further sign of increasing music industry aggression on the piracy issue, the four major labels - martialled by the Irish Recorded Music Association - are suing Ireland’s largest…

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Never mind the weak financial markets. SpinVox the mobile phone firm that turns voicemails into text is reportedly considering floating the company again. The five-year old company, which operates in…

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It seems Babelgum is enjoying the search for quality content so much, it’s becoming a content company. The heavily-financed P2P platform is creating a 10 million euro (£7.64 million) fund…

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Nineteen million people use Last.fm through off-site widgets and third-party hacks, the company says (via release). That’s almost as many as the entire 21 million on-site monthly user base from…

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BBC Worldwide will earn revenue from ads placed on its video content by New York-based content syndication middleman Mochila. Mochila has licensed footage from the BBC Motion Gallery to distribute…

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Microsoft-backed live P2P TV platform Livestation is due to complete a technical trial phase in “the next few weeks” - but is under no illusions as to its chances of…

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The time is up for internet service providers. The government is giving ISPs an April 2009 deadline to put processes in place to halt digital piracy or face legal sanctions,…

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- BBC P2P: A BBC R&D team is working with broadcasters, universities and developers across Europe on P2P Next, a continent-wide initiative to build a legal, cross-platform P2P system based…

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Is Babelgum‘s bubblegum bursting? Three months after CTO Mallku Caballero quit the well-funded Dublin-based P2P TV startup, now chief technical architect Gianni Scenini tells us he has also gone. Caballero…

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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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Swedish prosecutors have filed charges against Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg - the brains behind torrent tracker The Pirate Bay - as expected, accusing 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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Los Angeles-based Gemstar-TV Guide, which produces software to provide interactive programme guides (IPGs) for televisions, video recorders, PC’s and mobile phones, is suing Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) alleging that the…

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The European Union’s group of data privacy regulators said Monday that internet protocol (IP) addresses should generally be regarded as personal information, particularly when an individual is identified through such…

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