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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.

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.

Games console Xbox is introducing an app that could allow content from BBC iPlayer or 4oD to be viewed seamlessly as consumers switch between second screen devices and TV.Microsoft’s SmartGlass app will allow viewers to stream a show via any mobile or tablet while away from their games console. They can then transfer the video… Continue reading Microsoft to offer second screen viewing via Xbox & SmartGlass

According to a new survey by the IBM Institute of Business Value four very distinct digital consumer personalities have emerged in the last four years.

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.

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.

UKTV is set to launch VOD services for its Dave, Yesterday and Really channels.

MediaTel Group is hosting a two-day Connected Consumer event this month with top panellists including YouTube’s Anna Bateson, ITV’s Steve Bignell and BSkyB’s Jamie West.