When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…

The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”.

Mobile phone networks, get your houses in order. Here is how much mobile data consumption is expected to grow in the next four years…

We often see national and international breakdowns of newspaper website popularity, but rarely by continent.

More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…

Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations.

The UK internet population actually fell by one percent in the year to July, according to Nielsen data in Ofcom’s International Communication Market Report 2011.

Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Nielsen show how that has translated into a domination of the business of mobile content as well: phones based on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among the general population. Ofcom says the UK and Japan are among the countries leading the way to that milestone as consumers turn away from PC usage—a trend…

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Several days into the Carrier IQ story—which raised privacy concerns around software that claims to be an innocent diagnostics tool—and some handset makers and at least a few carriers are scrambling to clear their names of any CarrierIQ association, although the discussion is unlikely to end here.

Consumers in Europe may be feeling the smarting bite of the economic winter settling in around us, but when it comes to internet and mobile usage, there is some small relief coming: a series of legal actions point to host of new rights for private individuals. UK regulator Ofcom has…

Frustrating news for those in the UK who have eagerly been awaiting the first 4G services. The country, home to some of the most mobile-savvy consumers in the world, is now facing a delay well into 2012 before its national operators can even begin to consider how they would deploy…

Given that today’s big mobile news in the UK is that BlackBerry devices (and specifically the free messaging service BlackBerry Messenger) had a big role to play in the riots that took place around London this weekend, the following comes as just one more reminder of how big smartphones are…

After an “Arab spring”, it’s been a summer of security breaches. But, while the press, politicians and police chiefs turn themselves inside-out over voicemail “hacking”, each is overlooking the root cause - lax data security rules.

Up to now, the British pay-TV operator BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has continued to endorse James Murdoch as its chairman—despite the abandoned bid from News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and the many problems that have beset the executive in the wake of the hacking scandal at News International. But that could change…

Rather that postpone what was heading towards inevitability—and endure the increased scrutiny that comes with it, Rupert Murdoch is backing down completely from any effort to acquire full ownership of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY). The announcement came just after scathing comments in Parliament and a biting repudiation by Prime Minister David…

Another major setback for News Corp in the UK today: Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, is sending back the media giant’s bid for broadcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to both the broadcast regulator Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading. The next step? A possible referral to the Competition Commission, giving…

On the surface, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) appears to remain hopeful that its intended acquisition of the 61 percent of UK TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) it does not already own will have a smooth ride through the standard regulatory course. Today the company issued a letter stating its “priority…