The awards, which take place on 21 June, include best use of social media, with Conde Nast's Lucky Magazine being an entrant. Associated Newspapers, Metro, Yahoo, Huffington Post, Channel 4 News, The Sunday Times and the Manchester Evening News are also among the publishers who have nominated themselves for various categories. The awards are sponsored by The Drum, the Press Association, Holdthefrontpage, the Society of Editors and the NUJ.

All songs entered by the end of the day on April 6 are being considered for inclusion in the show's latest album. The Motoring magazine show asked fans to nominate their favourite driving ditties on its Facebook page. Entries so far have included Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" and The Prodigy's "Voodoo People. Other works to make the lit from music track to racetrack are Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", Black Sabbath's "Warpigs", and Billy Idol's "White Wedding".

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will announce its decision on the proposed $1.9 million acquisition of pay-TV operator Austar by Foxtel on April 10. The date was moved up from March 29, presumably to give Foxtel and the ACCC more time to negotiate on the draft's undertaking, amid concerns from the regulator about competition in the Internet television market. Should approval come on Tuesday, the Federal Court will rule on April 13.

A joint payment system would let readers buy access to the Netherlands' main news titles if plans for a "common platform to meet demand for their content" moves forward. Holland's number-three paper de Volkskrant reports that its Flemish owner Persgroep, NRC Handelsblad and the business title Het Financieele Dagblad (FD), which already charges, want to create (wait for it) "a Spotify for newspapers". Flemish publishers in neighbouring Belgium are also discussion a common platform.

The music industry is battling to stop piracy through Russia's largest social network so that it can turn the country from a digital backwater in to a top music market. VKontakte, which is often called a Facebook copycat for its similar features and design, includes built-in file sharing. In a case brought by one label group, Gala, St Peterburg's commercial court in January ruled vKontakte in breach of copyright. That buoyed labels' global representative group, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But now an appeal sought by vKontake is set to begin on May 17, and labels remain frustrated.

The hacking group Anonymous is threatening to launch online attacks every weekend after being charged with disrupting access to the British Home Office website. Twitter messages warned of the attack on 4 April. The site was inaccessible around 21:00 BST on Saturday and was patch from 05:00 on Sunday. One message on Twitter said it was a protest against "draconian surveillance proposals" but another claimed it was over extradition from the UK to the U.S.

VisitBritain's CEO tells an Institute of Travel and Tourism dinner audience that activity on sites like Facebook and Twitter will make a trip to London more appealing because of positive updates on news feeds. A trip into the city during the games can be seen as being "tricky" by those outside the capital. Sandie Dawe says social media will help combat this view, explaining, "I hope that people will be tweeting and Facebooking I'm having the time of my life, this is cool".

Visible only from the upper deck of buses, 30 LED screens have been installed by a collaborative public art project. The screens, which display animated gifs submitted by the public, hook up over 3G to a central server that distributes the image files to 20 boroughs across the capital. Each has a 10fps 256 x 80 display in monochrome red and black, but with variable brightness. The project's originator says, "We chose sites for various reasons and as you can see some are quite remote -- we didn't want to just be on Regent Street, we wanted to reach people …

The operator has announced a six-month trial for corporate users that will provide them with priority access to its mobile network. The company stressed that other customers will not be disadvantaged by this prioritisation, which will be offered free to corporate customers that have subscribed to one of Vodafone's two premium data plans used in laptops or tablets, but not smartphones. Vodafone previously tested a network priority service with business users in Spain.

The music video site, now a year old, says its UK users streamed 177 million videos in January. The report, which covers shows that while mobile streaming is still a relatively small part of Vevo's business, mobile use among users is growing fast. Mobile streams have doubled since it launched in the UK to 12.4 million for January 2012, while the mobile app has been downloaded 1.4 million times. Vevo said viewer engagement is increasing, with an average of 15 videos watched per viewer in a month.