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Samsung has bought Apple competitor Boxee, a US web TV service, for a reported $30 million.

BT Sport will host live broadcasts from the grounds for 25 league matches, plus both legs of the play-off semis and the Promotion Final at Wembley, from the start of the 2013-14 season in August.

EE will officially switch on double-speed 4G in twelve UK cities on July 4, seeing EE’s network reach a theoretical maximum speed of 150Mbps – rivalling mobile networks in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.

The matches will include both the men’s and women’s singles semi-finals and finals, free for those with access to a 3D TV set and to the BBC’s HD Red Button service.

ITV’s usually reliable teatime soap Emmerdale was on the receiving end of a grand slam (correct sporting terminology, right?) as the tail end of Wimbledon 2013 (BBC One, 1:45pm) managed to grab the public’s interest.

The latest Screen Life study has revealed some key differences between watching TV live and on demand, and between different types of VOD.

The unique comedy pilots include The Cariad Show, Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment, Going Native and Fuzzbox and will launch later this year.

The former editor of Campaign magazine and current Newsline columnist will join the organisation to help create bespoke editorial content, while Braben are set to provide full trade press office support.

It may be the height of the dreaded summer scheduling drought but that didn’t stop the BBC from treating viewers to the return of at least one highly anticipated programme last night.

BrandPoint will offer online video the ‘same accountability as TV’ by proving that a target audience was reached, allowing for advertisers to select age and gender targets across a number of video formats.