It’s not exactly a great leap from publishing an iPhone app to offering one on the soon-to-be-released iPad - not only will the former run on the latter; the skillset for developing the latter won’t be significantly different. So publishers who have already found a degree of incremental revenue from…

—Euro Winter Olympics Coverage: The European Broadcasting Union is streaming Winter Olympics coverage free through its “Vancouver Live” portal, including selected events in HD for the first time. The EBU claims that it will have the most extensive online coverage in Europe, aggregating feeds from 30 member broadcasters, six EBU…

—.Fox UK MD leaves: Federica Aperio is stepping down as the managing director of .Fox Networks, the UK sales and ad network for Fox International Channels (FIC). Sales director Francis Turner will now oversee the day-to-day running of the business. This is the second executive departure from .Fox in a…

Buzzmachine’s Jeff Jarvis opened Borrell Associates’ Local Online Advertising Conference with an extensive report about the revenue possibilities presented to hyperlocal sites. Amid an flurry of stats that aimed to show that hyperlocal sites can attract thousands of dollars in revenue with just a s small support staff, his primary…

Forecast: you’re going to see a lot more of this in the next few weeks - publishers announcing iPad apps, before the they’ve even had a chance to touch the sacred tablet. Bournemouth tech and entertainment magazine publisher Imagine Publishing says it’s released “iPhone and iPad editions” for all 20…

—LoveFilm: Lesley Mackenzie is the new group digital officer for the film and game rental site. Her previous roles include CEO of now-defunct Project Kangaroo and director of channels and operations at BSkyB (NYSE: BSY). (Via NMA.) —Dailymotion: David Ripert has been promoted to the role of director, global content…

A company that has built—and is already publicizing—a BBC iPlayer app for the iPhone may get stalled at the gates by the BBC, we have learned. If it goes live, the Rewat.ch app, from Manchester-based developers Camiloo, would be the first iPlayer app for iPhones on the market, according to…

By Julia Finch. EMI, the music group behind artists ranging from Pink Floyd to Katy Perry and country and western band Lady Antebellum, crashed £1.75bn into the red last year, according to figures released by the company tonight. The loss is one of the biggest black holes ever seen in…

Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) is considering a number of options for its struggling T-Mobile USA subsidiary, including a possible IPO or spinoff, reports the WSJ, which quotes people familiar with the matter. As of recently, DT was rumored to have been in merger talks with Sprint (NYSE: S) or Clearwire…

As expected, five UK-based mobile operators have started sharing data with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) and the GSMA in an attempt to eliminate two of the biggest problems facing the mobile content industry: lack of consistency and transparency in reporting mobile internet trends. In the first report released today, preliminary results…

—Sky Songs/IPC: The broadcaster will promote its new music download service through IPC Media’s listings magazines. TV & Satellite Week, TVTimes, What’s on TV, TV Easy and Soaplife will each offer 10 free downloads of songs in consecutive weeks. Normally the service costs £6.49 ($10.30)-per-month for 10 downloads or a…

Beleaguered private equity group Terra Firma is now trying to raise an additional $160 million to keep EMI afloat, according to numerous reports surfacing early Thursday morning.  The figure, more accurately 100 million pounds, is apparently needed despite recent successes meeting financial obligations to lender Citigroup.  Terra has survived recent…

By Mark Sweney: The Digital TV Group, which represents more than 100 companies including Samsung, Sony (NYSE: SNE), Pace and Dixons, has expressed concern that the BBC-led video-on-demand venture Project Canvas is failing in its core promise to create an open, industry-wide technology standard for the service. In a submission…

A milestone for Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), as good ‘ol fashioned voice revenue ebbs - quarterly mobile data income exceeded £1 billion ($1.6 billion) for the first time, the carrier said, as it announced a tenth higher October-to-December revenue. Data revenue rose 17.7 percent from the same period last year and…

If all this world needs, it is a few more mobile application stores. GetJar is now letting carriers, retailers and other companies, launch a store using its catalog of thousands of applications. One of the first to use the white label service is The Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer…

Bidders for public money to finance independently-funded news consortia are falling over themselves to include “citizen journalism” in their proposals - but it’s their pledge to give away their content, with no copyright limitations, that promises a more exciting transformation of news. The Department for Culture, Media & Sport, which…

—Spotify: The music-streaming site has revamped its recommendation engine and added a “related artists” tab. This will now use data collected from Spotify’s own users; previously it used data from AllMusic, which did not cover all of Spotify’s catalogue. (Spotify blog) —Tellylinks: A new service, Tellylinks - designed to send…

Nokia’s defensive move to make its Ovi maps and navigation free is already seeing strong customer response. Since launching Jan. 21, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today that people have downloaded the service 1.4 million times, and the one million mark was hit in just a week. The rate of downloads…

YouTube is taking some big steps in hosting more premium content on its site, but is it ready to be subject to the same rules as a full-fledged broadcaster? This might turn out to be the case in Italy, if a new decree gets put into effect later this month.…