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Rural areas across England and Scotland have been allocated over £360 million to improve their broadband connections.

Google announced plans to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion yesterday. The deal has huge implications for the smartphone market but also impacts Google’s pay-TV business and position when it comes to patents.

A report published by market research firm IHS Suppli has predicted that consumers will be more likely to access the Internet through their tablets and TV’s rather than their PC’s.

For the third day in a row this week, the BBC News at Ten has gained the highest ratings in the country as the UK-wide riots continue.

BBC News achieved the highest audience of the whole day in its 10pm time slot with 7.6 million viewers. As riots spread outside of the capital, the BBC’s ratings rocketed, surpassing both Eastenders (BBC One) and Emmerdale (ITV1).

Last night, the BBCs news viewing figures for coverage of the ‘London riots’ rivalled the prime time slots on both BBC One and ITV.The 10 o’clock showing of the BBC‘s flagship news show attracted an average audience of 7.1 million viewers. This figure rivalled both showings of Coronation Street on ITV1 (7.7 and 7.5 million… Continue reading TV Overnights: Late night news ratings up as riots strike the capital

According to reports in The Independent newspaper, Virgin Media is going to expand its cable network to pass a further 100,000 homes by the end of 2011.

Rovi claims that viewers clicked on ads that appeared in its EPG 13% of the time on average – more than 10 times that of typical banner ads – during the first three months of its connected TV ad trial in the US.

With the Virgin Media TiVo box hitting 50,000 users, the media owner has released its latest entertainment trends report, revealing the viewing habits of all its digital TV customers.

From autumn 2011, Virgin Media customers will be able to access Sky on-demand content via their Virgin set top box.