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Apple is set to launch a digital radio service with customised listening and on-demand functionality, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Jonathan Allan, director of sales at Channel 4, joins the expert panel line-up for MediaTel Group’s upcoming Connected Consumer event on 21 and 24 September.

The weekend’s schedule offered up plenty of options for everyone with sport, drama, Coldplay and double helping of The X Factor all fighting it out.

At the close of business on the Nasdaq stock exchange, News Corporation shares closed at $US 24.495, its highest for five years.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle Fire HD last night in San Diego, the latest attempt to take a bigger share of the tablet market away from Apple.

Virgin Media has announced plans to launch a service to rival Sky Go and Sky Anytime. Virgin TV Anywhere will allow cable TV customers to stream live channels and on-demand content to smartphones, tablets and laptops.

Sky has announced that Anytime is to be replaced with Sky On Demand to coincide with ITV and Channel 5 VOD services becoming available for the first time to Sky customer.

While the two crime dramas slugged it out, Channel 4 provided their own secret weapon in the form of 19 year old Paralympian Jonnie Peacock. The evening programme of Paralympic Games 2012 featured the hotly anticipated Men’s 100m final live from the Olympic Stadium at 9:25pm.

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on why Christmas is important: Brands that do well over the rest of this year have a chance of doing ok next year. Those that struggle may well not make it to 2013…

Emma Scott, managing director at Freesat, joins the expert panel line-up for MediaTel Group’s upcoming Connected Consumer event on 21 and 24 September.