From the BBC press office: BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live online from 27 November, Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, announced today. The channels join BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News which are already simulcast. They can all be watched online via their...

The Office of Fair Trading and Get Safe Online have joined forces to urge internet users to be vigilant against online fraudsters as recent research shows that online scams are on the increase.

Regular readers of  my posts about online politics will know my scepticism of the extent to which online fundraising can work in the UK on the same scale as it does in the US (e.g. because there’s a different attitude towards supporting causes by giving money rather than time in the US and because in

Around 12,000 people made the second UK national Get online day their excuse to get onto the internet and try something new online.

Joanna Lumley emails: I have some great news about the Gurkha Justice campaign that I want to update you on. Firstly, we now have over 120,000 online signatures with over 20,000 returned in the post. If you haven't done so already, please spread the word to all your online contacts and ask them to sign up online too at www.gurkhajustice.org.uk Second, there have been some exciting steps forward in...

To the Hansard Society website in search of the new Report on MPs Online: Connecting with Constituents , without huge expectations following on from the Hazel Blears "Cynical Nihilistic Political Bloggers" nonsense (*). Oooh. Look. They are having an event with Mark Pack, Jonathon Isaby and Derek Draper about online campaigning. Good.

From BBC News: The number of people buying feature films via online download in the UK has jumped hugely in the past year, according to data from Screen Digest. There will be a projected 412,000 transactions in 2008, a big jump from the 10,000 transactions seen in 2007. At the same time, the rate...

From SNP Tactical Voting: Scotland's first online newspaper is now live... Caledonian Mercury, billing itself as Scotland's first online newspaper, is now available to be viewed and presumably off and running. The Politics section seems to be manned chiefly by Hamish MacDonnell and contains some excellent articles already. Stewart Kirkpatrick, editor of the online publication, is clearly enthusias...

The Hansard Society has a new report out which asks the public what they want out of politicians and the political system online. Although many studies have looked at what politicians do or don’t do online, those looking at what the public actually wants are rather rarer. That makes this a particularly welcome report and is

UK online centres says that as more and more public services move online, the 17 million people in the UK who remain off-line could be missing out on important information and the convenience of online applications.