The privacy concern over Google’s Street View UK just got ugly, erupting in to a turf war between the Big “G” and a lobby group it says is too close to rival Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Privacy International director Simon Davies filed a complaint about the service with the Information Commissioner’s…

The BBC’s Project Canvas is not about setting a new technological standard for TV-over-internet, the Beeb’s IPTV director Richard Halton told IPTV World Forum in London on Wednesday. Instead, he said, the BBC is talking with broadcasters, content owners, networks and technology providers to “develop” existing standards under an industry-wide…

Finally put on hiatus in November after delays of two years, could Orange’s near-dead UK IPTV ambitions be jump-started again? Speaking at IPTV World Forum on Wednesday, Orange IPTV director Francois Seligmann said: “We are making some surveys on that. As you know, the UK market is a very competitive…

European broadband prices fell by 29 percent on average last year, the European Commission said. Its research shows the 23 percent of Europeans now have broadband, the majority at speeds over 2Mbps - something media commissioner Viviane Reding attributes to “the right combination of competition between companies and regulation”. The…