ISPs and device makers would be forced to filter adult content under a new bill presented to the House of Lords. The Online Safety Bill, raised in the Lords by Baroness Howe of Ildicote, asks for ISPs and mobile operators to "provide a service that excludes pornographic images" and for device makers to include ways to filter content at the point of purchase. The proposal is a Private Members Bill, which rarely make it into law without Government support, and has yet to be subject to any debate.

Mobile operators are now planning the deployment of LTE services across 300 German cities by the end of the year, a report from German ICT trade group Bitkom says. LTE reaches 13 million households in the country. By the end of 2012 more than 50 per cent of German households will have access to LTE. Bitkom said that for operators to meet their LTE licensing conditions they were first required to deploy the technology across rural areas that had no access to broadband services.

Only the automotive sector bucked the trend, getting the highest engagement on Tuesdays. Otherwise, fast moving consumer goods and telecoms, especially, were most likely to be engaged by fans on social media on Sundays. Socialbakers, which conducted the research, said brands "should consider posting their most compelling content at times of peak engagement to ensure the greatest online brand buzz". It also found that the responsiveness of brands to fan posts on Facebook is on the up, with response rates up 15.5% since October last year, when just 5% of posts elicited a response from a brand.

Chat software provider Netop has found a huge gap between public demand of live chat to solve customer service issues and its availability and that's a problem since customers prefer to engage online rather than leaving home or waiting on phone queues. Ninety-three percent of UK businesses do not use live chat as part of their customers' service experience. Fifty-four percent of consumers surveyed (of 2,000) said live chat could help with call centre issues where understanding regional or foreign accents was sometimes a problem.

The pact will offer customers movies including DreamWorks' "War Horse", Disney's "The Muppets" and Disney Pixar's "Toy Story" and TV shows such as "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy" from Disney's ABC Studios. Blinkbox will offer titles from Disney stables to buy or rent, with some day-and-date with their DVD rollout, to their computer, smart TVs, games consoles and tablet devices without subscription. The online operator also said" Aladdin", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Mary Poppins" would also be made available to buy.

The number of public "hotspots" across Britain is soaring - up from 25,000 in 2009 to over 175,000, according to analysts at Informa - as businesses and local councils rush to offer people easy access to the internet via a wireless broadband connection, rather than mobile. Informa reckons the number of public hotspots could increase fivefold by 2015 - and there are millions more private hotspots in offices and homes. Telecom and mobile firms are competing to meet this growing demand, with new deals unveiled every day.

The EU's antitrust authority is investigating Motorola Mobility's licensing of standards=essential patents. The handset, which is soon to be owned by Google, is alleged to have "abused" its strong position in some standards by withholding patents or demanding unreasonable fees to disadvantage rivals. If it is found in break of European competition law, Motorola Mobility could face fines of up to 10% of its global annual turnover.

The German publisher will buy the UK's No. 2 job classifieds site as it ramps up an offensive. Springer has been buying lots of such sites, including French property ads site SeLoger for EUR633 million. Last month, it targeted "a growth offensive in the area of digital classifieds", bundling its existing portfolio of sites including StepStone in to a new joint venture, Axel Springer Digital Classifieds, with the General Atlantic Atlantic investment group. Springer holds 70% of the JV. TotalJobs audited traffic stands at a decade record of 289,072 daily average browsers.

Google brings its brand of tear-jerking creativity to the U.K. with "Plus Tom," the first TV spot for Google+ across the pond. Created out of Adam & Eve London and directed by Simon Ellis, it follows a similar aesthetic as stateside work for the company out of BBH New York. Benedict Cumberbatch narrates Shakespeare's The Seven Ages of Man, while the video chronicles the life of a man named Tom, from birth to meeting his own grandchildren.

Nearly half of business owners are concerned about their employees using work time to tweet and another 15% are "very concerned" about time wasting. In the same survey, 63% of workers said they spend a brief amount of time on Twitter. One businessman said the company finds it ever more difficult to enforce bans against the use of social network sites. Worse still, some workers phone in sick then post about going to the shops, putting co-workers who follow them in a bind.