Despite the fact that PRS for Music slashed its rates, which are due for renewal in June, Pandora founder Tim Westergren says the economics of UK music streaming still prohibit Pandora returning to the country. It initially quit the UK in 2008. His reluctance makes Pandora one of the few online music services not to embark on internationlisation, when Spotify, Deezer, Rhapsody and others are expanding rapidly into new territories including the UK, Germany and Australia.

In a new move, the operator is allowing non-subscribers to register to use the O2 Wallet, which is being tested by 750 O2 staff members, with 1,800 more joining soon. A campaign site is promoted in its latest TV executions. O2 has been signing up participants to the trial, which lets users hold wallet items including cash and loyalty cards on their phones, among its own subscriber base since last year.

Eighty-three percent of online media users surveyed by the IPA pointed to Spotify as the best quality of user experience, pushing Specific Media from its place as No. 1 since 2008. This is a first for a new entrant. Next on the list is Tribal Fusion, then AOL, Specific, Adjug, Glam Media and the Telegraph.

If so, it shows how quickly the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) is conducting its investigation into whether Google is behaving non-competitively against competitors and consumers. Similar regulatory action has taken many years to come to fruition. The initial complaint against the search giant was filed in November 2010. The BEUC is focusing on how Google has used its role as "gatekeeper to the Internet" to "restrict access to its competitors and direct traffic to its own services."

Chris Cairns was awarded GBP90,000 in libel damages over an accusation of match-fixing which he said turned his achievements to "dust". He had sued Lalit Modi, ex-chairman of Twenty20 franchise the Indian Premier League over an "unequivocal allegation" on Twitter in January 2010. The London High Court judge said that Modi had "singularly failed" to provide any reliable evidence that Cairns was involved in match-fixing or spot- fixing, or even that there were strong grounds for suspicion that he was.

Seen as a benefit for existing media giants, the "one-stop shop" database of copyright information that could be accessed online would also help small and medium-size businesses launch digital services over broadband and mobile networks, creating the next Spotify or Netflix. Richard Hooper, a former deputy chairman of Ofcom, said, "f the media companies are seen to be doing everything possible to enable and encourage new digital services via easier and more streamlined copyright licensing, then that makes it easier for politicians to be even tougher against copyright infringement."

Calling his tweets "racist abuse via a social networking site," a district judge in Swansea has ordered a university student to serve 56 days in jail. Liam Stacey was arrested after comments he posted on Twitter about the on-pitch collapse of Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba were reported to police from across Britain. He admitted incitement to racial hatred. The 21 year old cried throughout the hearing and was led away in handcuffs.

With search's share of paid clicks from mobile up 180% in 2011, the UK leads the Eurozone, whose clicks were up 177%, from 2.1% in January to 5.8% in December. The report found that 15% of clicks in the UK during December came from a mobile device. Advertisers are acknowledging the vast growth in smartphone and tablet adoption with share of budget for mobile up 191%, from 3.2% to 9.3% in 2011. But share of clicks is still higher than spend, at 15.1%

The High Court judge who ordered the broadband provider to give personal details of more than 9,000 subscribers to Golden Eye International and porn firm Ben Dover Productions did balk at allowing Golden Eye to demand GBP700 from each of the customers accused of unlawful file sharing. He said such a letter was "capable of causing unnecessary distress because it could be read as an implicit threat of publicity once proceedings have been commenced".

Google is under fire in the MPs' report into privacy for failing to develop an algorithm that would remove links to content found via searches that are in break of privacy. It urges that new legislation be introduced to force the search giant to do so. The Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions was responding to complaints from ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley about his difficulty in getting a video removed from the Internet.