Today the Internet is awash with news, article, links and blogs about the new Government report on Britain’s digital future. When reading through the various online entries on the subject it is striking just how many different industries this report impacts on. ISPs, online retailers, media, advertising, newspapers, the list goes on. And all seem [...]

Beleaguered ITV boss Michael Grade has referred to online video sites, such as YouTube, as ‘parasites’ to commercial broadcasters. See Brand Republic article .
In an interview at the IBC technology conference, the former Channel 4 and BBC man reportedly said operators such as YouTube, Google and Joost are “parasites” living off the TV shows [...]

We’re experiencing the early stages of convergence and the big players are doing their best to bolster online offerings so that once they’ve got visitors, they keep them as long as possible.
SKY is a good example, having just announced a new deal with Google, which extends News Corp’s relationship with the Search giant into the [...]

This year Big Brother rolled out its uber-trashy all-seeing televisual eyes amidst a welter of warnings - ‘kiss goodbye to your summer’ cried everyone from Heat magazine to BB’s own increasingly cartoonish Davina McCall. There’s a grain of truth in that, at least for those of us who can’t be bothered putting up an [...]

I spend a lot of time in the company of computers. I’ll happily profess that I know a thing or two about how they work, and then more often than not will regret doing so because whoever’s on the end of my professing will immediately ask me to fix the problem they’ve got with their [...]