How does the world’s biggest travel guide book publisher, 39-year-old Lonely Planet, pack its bags for the digital era? “Relentlessly,” CEO Matt Goldberg says.

Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together with competitors.

It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers—it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, past president of the Online News Association and formerly an *ABC* News digital exec, noted that in the U.S., networks use 30 percent of the bandwidth. So is there…

[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne] Hi everyone, Today we are making some changes to our organisation that will affect everyone at Lonely Planet, directly or indirectly, in order to reposition us to return to profitability while staying true to what we do…

Nick Ascheim is leaving his post as the Associated Press’s Digital GM to join BBC Worldwide Americas to help the company chart its mobile strategy and develop unspecified new products. His title will be SVP, Digital Media, where he’ll manage the broadcaster’s American website and mobile systems. The AP has…

The BBC’s international iPlayer iPad app will cost less than $10 (£6.13) a month when it launches later this year, according to director general Mark Thompson.

While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major content publishers at Mobile World Congress for their take on native in-app payments, and what it might mean to their own business models. The bottom line: of…

Foursquare’s latest media partnership is BBC America. The U.S. TV channel is using the location-sharing tool to drive engagement around its coverage of the upcoming Six Nations rugby tournament.

When BBC Worldwide’s Lonely Planet temporarily dropped prices for some of its mobile travel guides during this summer’s Icelandic volcano eruption, it found a 500 percent sales uplift. Now it’s dropping prices again during another commuter crisis, and with Christmas just a week away…

This is huge. The BBC will launch the long-awaited global version of its iPlayer TV catch-up service on a subscription-only basis, and initially only on iPad. The service, carrying BBC shows like Doctor Who on-demand, will likely be very popular in the U.S., generating new income for the BBC back…

BBC Worldwide is swelling its mobile app portfolio, after finding some success with earlier launches. It already publishes several, paid iPhone apps for its Good Food and Top Gear brands, as well as for Gavin & Stacey and The Mighty Boosh and its Lonely Planet guides, which it discounted successfully…

Travel publisher Lonely Planet will on Wednesday embed augmented reality features in to new, Android versions of its mobile city guide apps, overlaying place-of-interest information on pictures seen through travelers’ cellphone cameras.

“We anticipate we’ll have our live streaming games available on iPad in the fall,” NBA Digital SVP and GM Bryan Perez told our paidContent Mobile conference on Tuesday. Perez said the NBA is now ready to consolidate its mobile strategy, after initially rolling out a wide array of apps.

The BBC has clocked a million global downloads for its ad-funded iPad news app - even though it’s currently forbidden from releasing it in its native UK, says BBC.com’s Americas SVP Miranda Cresswell, who is speaking at our paidContent Mobile conference at Columbia University on Tuesday, July 20. The BBC…

The public-service BBC’s app plans may be on hold in its native UK until its regulating body checks for anti-competitive effects - but, outside of Blighty, the profit-seeking BBC Worldwide wing is pressing ahead with its latest mobile download. The BBC’s boldest step yet in to chargeable content, BBC Listener…

Cynical exploitation of Mother Nature, or a canny free offer to tempt customers… ? BBC Worldwide-owned Lonely Planet says it is dropping prices from 13 of its iPhone travel guides, from Amsterdam to Vienna, for “stranded travelers”, until this Thursday, April 22.

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…

BBC Worldwide will launch “BBC News and Sport apps on several platforms in the next few months”, BBC.com MD and EVP Luke Bradley-Jones (pictured) has told us. “It’s very unlikely we’ll move to a charge basis for our generalist news services”—but audience-specific apps will come at a price, for example,…

BBC Worldwide, the international commercial arm of BBC, has been promising some acquisitions for a while now, and this one fits right in: it has bought Lonely Planet, the travel information group founded in Australia in 1972, for an undisclosed sum. Founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler will retain a 25…