—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…

Swedish film streaming site Voddler, still in beta, has picked up a further 26 million Swedish kronor (£2.25 million, $3.5 million) in funding. This round comes from Eqvitec Partners and brings the total amount that Voddler has received up to SEK150 million (£13 million, $20.2 million), according to a spokesperson…

—BT (NYSE: BT) fibre: BT has launched a fibre-to-the-cabinet consumer broadband service, Infinity, offering up to 40Mbps starting at £19.99 a month. Most homes can already get up to 8Mbps over copper wire, some of those can get up to 20 Mbps through ADSL2+; BT says four million homes will…

—Ofcom/BSkyB: Ofcom says a final decision on forcing Sky to cut wholesale channel prices will come in March. The board is due to meet this week as part of the deliberation process only. Competing pay TV providers, such as BT (NYSE: BT), have been lobbying for a review of the…

—Bambuser deal: The Swedish mobile vidcasting rival to Qik and Flixwagon has signed its first commercial partner since starting in ‘07 - Finnish public broadcaster YLE will embed on its site live mobile vids from its news reporters, “to document everyday work life as well as a new way to…

It may have spawned The Pirate Bay, have elected the Pirate Party to the European Parliament and have some of the world’s biggest pro-pirate advocates - but legal music sales in Sweden are now growing strong. Sales in 2009 grew 10.2 percent to 861.4 million Swedish crowns after years of…

A bad day for staff at Swedish mobile handset maker and networks company Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which is making 950 staff redundant in Sweden—about five percent of its domestic workforce—as part of an additional round of cuts on top of its on-going cost reduction scheme. The company still aims to…

It’s traditionally been the home of illegal file-sharing in Europe, but since the introduction of strong anti-piracy laws this year Sweden has become a lot less hospitable to freeloading P2P nerds. The IPRED law—which obliges ISPs to hand over personal details of suspected offenders to rights holders—is credited for a…

—Free Films Direct: A new movie service for Sweden, the land of Spotify and Pirate Bay. Free Films Direct comes from Sweden’s Brixgate Communications and has Paramount Digital Entertainment repertoire, offering paid downloads and streaming plus ad-supported free films. Via Hollywood Reporter and release. —MuZu.tv/O2: The Irish music video site…

Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry’s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI’s branch in Sweden—the home of illegal file-sharing—is reporting that Swedish music sales rose 18 percent in the first nine months of the year, after seven years of consecutive decline, following the introduction…

—Football League ads: After this month awarding a mobile content contract, Football League Interactive is now putting the contract for advertising out to tender. FLi’s sites for 80 clubs get six million uniques and 120 million monthly ad impressions. —ITN Christmas Channel: ‘Tis the season for ITN On to launch…

Voddler, a Swedish VOD tech and content provider, has raised $2.2 million in funding, per an SEC filing. The company is backed in part by Deseven Capital AB; CEO Marcus Backlund is a partner at the investment firm. Founded in 2005 by Jan Soderberg, Voddler has now raised around $16…

Global Gaming Factory X (GGF)‘s much-hyped and now defunct bid to buy BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay was a ship that never sailed. But more bidders could be on the horizon… Swedish games download site Gamersgate.com and, bizarrely, GGF CEO Hans Pandeya are amongst them, according to DI.se (via Thelocal.se).…

Sweden’s Bambuser, a mobile live videocaster that rivals Qik and Flixwagon, is hiring MySpace Nordic CEO Hans Ericksson as its new CEO, to replace co-founder Jonas Vig, ArcticStartup reports. Ericksson, who had taken the MySpace job in February 2008, had already been using Bambuer while at the social network, for…

Sweden, land of The Pirate Bay, is pretty much the home of illegal file sharing. So we were suspicious when a report emerged in April claiming a 30 percent reduction in internet traffic following a new anti-piracy measure, and remained so when a similar report surfaced in July. But the…

Though planned music services from ISPs Sky and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are still just vapourware, bundling music downloads with broadband and mobile subscriptions is clearly one way to drive legal consumption. So Swedish telco Telia has signed a “two-year cooperation agreement” to deliver Spotify on desktop, mobile and -…

There seems to be as much chance of Global Gaming Factory X buying the Mary Celeste as it buying The Pirate Bay. The company’s shaky, non-specific and uncertain SEK60 million (£5.38 million) attempt to buy the Swedish P2P tracker has been well documented, but now the game may finally be…

Sweden’s Court Of Appeal has kicked Spotify’s product development director off a lay jury that was due to hear Pirate Bay admins’ appeal against their conviction - for obvious reasons. The court explains: “It appears that the man is employed as a product developer and holds stock options in Spotify…

After being kicked off the Swedish stock market for not providing evidence of the funds needed to buy giant BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay, Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory X is facing a bankruptcy filing from a former director claiming to be owed more than SEK1.3 million (£116,000).