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Online gaming firm, 24h Poker, will be sponsoring ITV2’s exclusive new peak series, The Rebel Billionaire, with the deal putting the online gaming site on one of the most watched channels in multi-media homes.24h Poker is a Swedish-owned company within the gaming industry, operating a gaming website, 24hpoker.tv 24hpoker.tv, and designing software for online gaming… Continue reading Poker Firm To Sponsor ITV2 Branson Series

Trinity Mirror has received a bid for its flagship tabloid, the Daily Mirror, from a consortium led by multi-millionaire conference organiser Marcus Evans, according to reports this morning. However, according to The Times, the bid has been rejected despite Evans offering between £700-800 million for Britain’s third-best selling daily. A spokesman for Trinity Mirror said… Continue reading Trinity Rejects £800 Million Take-Over Bid For Mirror

United Business Media (UBM) is to sell its automotive titles, Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange, claiming the publications would be more valuable to other organisations and a sale would be in the best interest of UBM shareholders. Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange generated £35.8 million in revenue for UBM in 2004, with online… Continue reading UBM To Sell Automotive Magazines

Communications company, BT, has revealed plans to deliver TV over broadband connections in the UK via Microsoft TV internet protocol television (IPTV), expecting to offer the service to customers in the summer of 2006.The Microsoft TV IPTV software enables broadband network operators to deliver engaging, high-quality video content and services to their customers using their… Continue reading BT And Microsoft Reveal Plans To Launch Internet TV

May saw the nation’s penchant for text messaging flourishing, with a record number of messages sent during the month. A whopping 2.63 billion texts were transmitted, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA), representing an increase of 20% year on year.May also saw the highest average daily figure recorded to date, with 85 million messages… Continue reading Texts Continue To Rise Throughout May

GCap Media has teamed up with software giants, Microsoft Windows, allowing users to download the song they’re currently listening to and search from 500,000 old and new tracks, which they can mix, organise and burn.The £750,000 deal starts this month, with Windows XP sponsoring all streaming media activity across the musicradio.com and classicfm.com websites, during… Continue reading GCap And Microsoft To Offer Legal Downloads

ITV’s annual fee payable to industry regulator, Ofcom, has been cut by £135 million to less than £80 million, as part of a review into licence fees by the watchdog, which takes into account the increasing growth of digital TV.The broadcaster paid £215 million for its 12 licences in 2004, astounding city analysts who predicted… Continue reading ITV Has Licence Fees Slashed

A record number of text messages were sent during May, with a massive 2.63 billion texts transmitted, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA), representing an increase of 20% year on year. May also saw the highest average daily figure recorded to date, with 85 million messages being sent per day. Earlier this month saw… Continue reading Record Number Of Texts Sent In May

Consumers are increasingly using mobile phones as their primary means of communication, with new survey from Arbitron showing that 23.3% of respondents claimed to be mobile phone only users, while 23.1% said that, although they had access to a landline, they relied on their mobile. A study released earlier this year from global market research… Continue reading Rise Of Youth Mobile Market

Cable connections in US broadband households are declining, with research and consulting firm, Strategy Analytics, predicting digital subscriber lines (DSL), fibre and other types of broadband to make up over 10% of the market by 2010. Strategy Analytics forecasts broadband households in the US to rise to 77.6 million by 2010, up from 34.1 million… Continue reading DSL Overtaking Cable Broadband In US