The gadget magazine has launched its iPad Edition with LG as a partner. Martyn Jones, publishing director at Haymarket Media Group-owned Stuff, tells The Drum: "This is a significant milestone for the world's biggest gadget magazine. It marks our ambition to evolve across exciting emerging formats, and to reach new consumers." The iPad edition was created in-house on the PressRun platform, with each new edition to coincide with the print publication.

A leading voice in online audience measurement in the UK, UKOM has signed a deal with comScore to be its partner in the UK market as of 2013. The selection of comScore followed an open tender and rigorous six-month selection process by UKOM, which is jointly owned by the AOP and IAB, and governed by a cross-industry board with representatives of the IAB, AOP, ISBA and IPA. UKOM collectively represents the media measurement interests of the UK's leading digital publishers, advertisers and agencies. comScore will become the exclusive supplier of data for UKOM in January 2013 and the contract will …

Police are using Facebook and YouTube to post emotional interviews with the mother and sister of a 15-year-old who was stabbed to death on 10 April 2011 in Edmonton, north London. In the online video, his mother Ingrid Adam said: "I have no words to describe how it feels to hear your son is dead." His sister appeals to anyone with information to come forward or face feeling afraid forever.

They are extending their joint venture to include The Digital Media Festival and Awards in Asia, which take place in November in Beijing. The awards will include the categories of media and entertainment, apps, gaming, online PR and online marketing. The partnership currently sees both companies running Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity and the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Festival. The management team running those festivals will be in charge of the one in China as well.

It appears that Iran has blocked the official website for the London summer games. Users in Iran have tweeted they are unable to connect and a redirected to a site offering stories from Iran's official news agencies. Nima Akbarpour, the presenter of the BBC's Click Farsi programme, said such website bans are not uncommon but it is hard to know who is responsible. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently ordered officials to set up a new body to co-ordinate decisions regarding the net.

The government plans to introduce a classification system that would restrict children under 18 years of age from seeing such videos from stars like Rihanna, Beyonce and Madonna. New rules would force hosting websites to install age verification systems similar to those used for online gambling. Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly "disappointed" with the music industry's response to a recent government report that warned of the increasing "sexualization of childhood."

The prime minister faces a split in the Coalition over a plan to allow the government to monitor everyone's online activity. Home Secretary Theresa May said she hoped for quick action on the bill. Her remarks seemed to contradict Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister, who promised anxious Liberal Democrats the bill would be published in draft form only. And Liberal Democrat Tim Farron has confirmed a report the party could "kill" the bill unless it is watered down.

Fearing that a Federal Court finding that it engaged in false and misleading advertising could have global implications worth tens of billions of dollars, the search giant will take its challenge to the High Court. Last week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission successfully appealed a Federal Court decision that Google was not responsible for four misleading ads created by advertisers using the company's AdWords program.

Jamal Edwards is a rangy black kid who last week got a personal video congratulating him on having registered 100 million views on his YouTube TV channel, SBTV, which he set up as a 15-year-old school boy rapper. The congratulations came from Chad Hurley, founder of YouTube. Edwards has what every media owner craves, the eyes and ears of a mass audience of young people both in Britain and in the U.S. He is courted by political leaders and entertainment stars. He has ambitions.

Thanks to social media, women's football is now the third biggest team sport in the UK in terms of participation, behind only men's football and cricket. The second season of the Football Association's Women's Super League (WSL) kicked off on Sunday, with each participant displaying their Twitter account name on her kit. Since the WSL launched, attendances have increased by more than 600%, viewing figures of live broadcast matches, at 450,000, are on a par with those of the men's Scottish Premier League, and the social media channels now attract more than 80,000 followers.