Keith Rupert Murdoch has seen eighty summers, but few will have had interludes as hot and uncomfortable as this one. Not that he seems worried – snatched pictures show a grinning figure in a range of bizarre ‘Sod you, I’m an old man’ hats, as he’s chauffeured around London sweeping up after some of his […]
To gather views on how Europe can seize opportunities created by advances in digital technology and the Internet, and move towards a digital single market, the European Commission has published a Green Paper on the initiative of Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, in agreement with Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Androulla Vassilliou, […]
The Conservative party has announced it will now back Labour’s Commons Motion tomorrow that calls on News Corp to withdraw its BSkyB bid ‘in the public interest’. Many coalition partner LibDems had indicated they would vote for the motion and now it will be an official Government motion. Jeremy Hunt, the DCMS Secretary responsible for […]
Seeing the writing on the wall that a vote in Parliament on Wednesday was likely to block its bid for Sky, News Corp has ‘tried to take the politics out of the bid’ and has unilaterally withdrawn its negotiated commitments to spin-off Sky News and has accepted this will mean a referral to the Competition […]
An Egyptian Court has formally ordered satellite operator Nilesat to remove 14 Libyan state-backed channels from transmission. MENA, Egypt’s official news agency, reports that the orders came from Cairo’s Administrative Court. Lawsuits issued by Libyan nationals, as well as Egyptian lawyers, and presented to the court state that the channels are being used by President […]
Ofcom is likely to investigate News Corporation’s proposed bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB . Pressure on the regulator has ramped up as more revelations on the News International phone hacking scandal have poured out. On Friday morning the Prime Minister said Ofcom should take account of ‘the new circumstances’, and Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader of […]
ATIS announced that its Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has released the CDN Interconnection Use Case Specification and High Level Requirements (ATIS-0200003) standards document. The standard provides an initial description of content distribution networks (CDNs) and develops interconnection use cases and high-level requirements to support passing content distribution requests between two service providers. The standard enables […]
The world’s most read English language newspaper has been dramatically closed as News Corp tries desperately to maintain credibility and shore up its bid for BSkyB. This Sunday’s paper will be the last and all copy sale proceeds will be given to charity. Almost every hour of each day this week more damaging revelations have […]
Comments by the Prime Minister David Cameron this morning make it more likely that Ofcom will step in sooner rather than later to apply the ‘fit and proper person(s)’ test of the Broadcasting Act to News Corp in its bid for BSkyB in the light of the News International voice mail hacking scandal. Speaking ahead […]
Ofcom is considering using the airwaves freed up when FM radio goes digital to provide rural broadband. So-called white spaces devices are currently being trialled for use in the spectrum gaps freed up by the digital TV switchover. Ofcom believes they would work equally well in the FM spectrum. There is no set date for […]