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The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecast, due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device.

Accrington, in Lancashire, has been named the 100th town in the UK to receive the superfast mobile internet.

Garden-fresh whippersnapper Nicholas Lyndhurst (you may know him from edgy youth sitcom Only Fools and Horses) stepped up to become the fourth corner of the dusty UCOS team.

Forget trying to celebrate yet another ‘year of mobile’ says Videology Group’s Anne de Kerckhove, and in 2013 raise your glass to the year of cross device consumption.

It was a clash of the grim and gritty later on as ITV’s third series premier of Vera (8pm) went head to head with BBC One’s new four part drama What Remains (9pm). The ITV show staring Brenda Blethyn as yet another maverick detective did get a head start on its two hour investigation.

Following AOL’s purchase of Adap.tv, along with fresh viewing figures from Thinkbox, it’s plain to see that video on demand is growing, says Dominic Mills – though achingly slowly – and live TV certainly retains an iron grip on our viewing habits for now.

New TV viewing figures from Thinkbox for the first half of 2013 show how people’s television habits are changing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives.

This week Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, examines the evolution of TV and video – looking at the new thinking and experimentation being driven by the proliferation of new devices and consumer behaviours.

Mobile phones now account for almost a fifth of all web usage across the globe, according to new research from Statista – with European mobile web usage increasing by almost 4% year on year.

Speaking at the 2013 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Spacey said that shows such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos were “inescapable evidence that the King of television is the creative”, and that “revolutionary programming” must be kept alive.