Government says one in four of its Digital Britain recommendations have been achieved.

The Digital Economy Bill has been having its first “line by line examination” in Parliament this week.

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has opened up a three month consultation period to gather views on how the Next Generation Fund could best be used to bring Next Generation Access to 90% of the population by 2017. Estimates suggest the fund could reach as much as a billion pounds within that period.
The [...]

You won’t be seeing any more of the Tiscali logo as the brand is officially decommissioned.

The community initiative behind the biggest single Wi-Fi network in the UK is proposing extending its reach even further across South West England – and boosting broadband speeds to boot. But because that’ll put it in competition with BT, which has its own ideas for super-fast broadband in the area, the plans could spell trouble for local businesses.

The new presidency’s agenda includes a proposal to make broadband provision compulsory in Europe.

Google’s Internet browser has finally overtaken Apple’s offering in popularity – just as the Mountain View firm prepares to officially unveil what could be the first iPhone-killer.

The BT Group is waging a war on two fronts: versus the Government on one side, battling TalkTalk and Sky on the other.

Boxing Day is traditionally one of the biggest days in the online retailing calendar as shoppers with some credit left on plastic look for a bargain in the sales.
However, according to research commissioned by analytics company Webtrends, Christmas Day itself could soon be rivalling the traditional peak shopping day.
Its figures show that half of those [...]

Ford technology will enable hotspots on wheels.

The BBC Trust has given a conditional green light to the IPTV venture.

Not only has BT Retail declared itself the first UK Internet Service Provider to reach the five million customer milestone, it’s also revealed it’s ahead of schedule when it comes to installing its next-generation broadband network

Consumers receive about 60 percent of average advertised broadband speeds.

British broadband, fixed line and mobile prices are among the most competitive in the West, according to research published by Ofcom today.
It has compared the cost of bundling together a fixed line phone with broadband, as well as allowing for moderate mobile phone use and some pay television. The results show that at a price [...]

Like just about every other country in the world France has a digital master plan – to bring broadband to the entire country by 2010 – but there wasn’t any money to make it happen, until this week.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed that a €35 million scheme to inject more public money into the economy [...]

Project Canvas can now boast of two major new partners.  Broadcaster, Channel 4 and ISP, TalkTalk have joined the project which is aimed at creating a television platform which combines Freeview (and possibly pay per view) broadcasting with internet video content.
Channel 4 and TalkTalk join the BBC, ITV, Five and BT meaning that all public [...]

The Google Phone is very real and will almost certainly be sold in Europe during the first quarter of next year.
Online reports are suggesting the phone, believed to be called the Nexus One, will be available in America as soon as the start of January. However, a keynote speech by Eric Schmidt, Google CEO and [...]

While all the industry, parliamentary and media attention currently appears to be on Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill, another clause could mean the “Government will be able to take increased control over the Internet and what passes over it.” That’s according to Francis Davey, a practising barrister and legal advisor to the technology sector, who says Clause 11 of the Bill could allow the Secretary of State to block groups of websites and implement “technical measures which could be imposed by stealth.”

TeliaSonera today launches what it claims to be the world’s first commercial 4G mobile broadband service, in Stockholm and Oslo.
Although there have been many trials of the 4G or Long Term Evolution (LTE) services across the world, today’s service is, the network operator claims, the first time a full commercial service has been on offer.
The [...]

Maybe EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding wasn’t completely wide of the mark when she warned Spain over internet disconnections. Although the Spanish government says it has dismissed the idea of disconnecting individuals caught downloading illegal content from the internet, it has come up with new ways of severing communications services.
An estimated 3-4 million people [...]