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Richard Nicholls, The Future Foundation, on personal policing of the social space and the rise of the super-highway code…

Channel 4 has made its catch-up viewing figures for 4oD available for the first time, launching its first 4oD Monthly Report for July 2011.

IP Vision, a provider in the UK’s nascent hybrid DTT/IPTV over-the-top (OTT) TV sector, has announced that the FetchTV content portal will be available this autumn via an app as a service to consumers on Panasonic’s VIERA Connect compatible TV sets sold in the UK and Ireland.

“Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.”

According to Business Insider‘s ‘Chart of the Day’, women are from Amazon and men are from Apple.

Three and the Countryside Alliance have announced the launch of a project aimed at getting people online in rural areas of poor or non-existent broadband.

According to new research from In-Stat, 50% of tablet owners are viewing not only feature-length movies on their device, but also TV shows.

The Only Way is Essex (Towie) might not be to your taste but it has certainly proved a success for ITV2. It gets average ratings of more than a million viewers and generates a whole heap of social media activity – not to mention the endless branding opportunities… So is it time for it to move to ITV’s flagship channel? Apparently not.

After Eric Schmidt, the 36th Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival certainly gave the boffins a share of voice. On Saturday, Professor Brain Cox was interviewed by the luvvie and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup in what was billed ‘The Alternative MacTaggart’ lecture.

Digital TV Research has released a new report looking at UK pay TV revenues, claiming that they are fast reaching maturity, so operators must find other revenue streams to ensure growth.