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“Advertisers are being woefully let down by EPG offerings,” says Oli Newton, head of emerging platforms at Starcom Mediavest Group.

Nigel Walley, CEO, Decipher, said this year will see the connected TV market “sky-rocket”.

Dan Saunders, head of content services at Samsung, says consumers are already buying connected TV products, whether they know about it or not.

Samsung is set to become the world’s leading smartphone supplier this quarter, taking Nokia’s 15-year crown, according to investment bank Nomura.

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Ofcom has launched a review into competition in the TV advertising trading market in the UK.

Apple has changed its in-app subscription policy, removing the 30% commission that is charges publishers who sell subscriptions within iPhone and iPad apps.

Sky has announced that all 10 million Sky TV customers will have the opportunity to watch Sky channels and programmes on PCs, laptops, mobiles and tablets at no extra charge. Called Sky Go, it will provide flexible access to Sky content across multiple devices including the iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac from 6th July 2011.

Richard Nicholls, The Future Foundation, says “Boredom” could soon seem a rather quaint affliction peculiar to the inefficient consumer of yesteryear…

Nigel Walley, managing director of Decipher, considers the effect next generation set-top boxes could have on the TV landscape: “What TiVo and SkyAnytime+ show is that it might be easier if the platforms just ignored the broadcasters and used their PVRs to build their own versions of iPlayer and the other catch-up services.”

Ahead of our Media Playground 2011 event tomorrow, Newsline and online research company Toluna have teamed up to launch a series of questions to find out what people really think about the digital world (including social media, connected TV, m-commerce and privacy). Using the Toluna QuickSurvey’s system (which officially launched today!), here are a few of the highlights…