So what goes through the mind of the former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO who championed the Newton handheld as he navigates the smartphone-and-tablet-dense CES 2012? The role the failed device played in making it all happen, by providing a reason to create a low-powered microprocessor, John Sculley told the BBC.

Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.

Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent first reported about in September.

“Every sport, from every location.” That is BBC Sport’s mantra for delivering next year’s London 2012 Olympic Games digitally.

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.

Expect to see more of this. The BBC is redesigning its website to take account of how users are now “swiping” using touchscreen devices.

Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…

Eight months after he joined the corporation from Major League Gaming, Ralph Rivera has set out his aims for the first time as the BBC’s future media director. It boils down to this - no content expansionism, but taking existing content and brands to new devices.

*Time* between launching on iOS and Android? Ten months, in BBC News’ case. The broadcaster, with all its resources, has only today debuted its news app on Android Market.

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 numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly skeptical that the event pulled in the 2 billion viewers that the UK government predicted, the event—especially if you count not just the live,…

If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in person, you will have seen the crowds that assembled down the Mall, around Westminster Cathedral, in front of Buckingham Palace, and in many other places. But…

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has been previewing and talking up its new PlayBook tablet for months already, with demonstrations shepherded by the likes of its CEOs and other executives. But those steps forward have also been met with a number of knocks. Now, on the day that RIM prepares for a…

Another acquisition that points to the ongoing covergence and consolidation in the mobile and digital media industries, this time in the UK.

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…