Yesterday British Telecom announced that they were investing £100 million in a new service to be called BT Vision. This has been misleadingly described in some reports as “BT’s new television service”. It would be more accurate to say that this represents BT’s calculated bet that, like radio, television is in terminal decline.

A small set of facts extracted from a report entitled Digital Television: what, why, how? by Pertti Näränen

Freeview has overtaken BSkyB in the UK digital television market after strong growth during the first quarter made it the main TV provider in 8.2 million homes.

According to All Things Digital, Acer President Scott Lin has changed his mind about building a competitor to Apple’s new iPad – because Acer doesn’t have anything like Apple’s iStore ecosystem in place.

Several Web sites are now providing free online editing tools, nurturing a new generation of filmmakers.

According to The Register the Pirate Bay is making moves to raise sixty five million pounds to buy Sealand, the independent fortress off the British coast.