The Orange and T-Mobile owner has put its money where its mouth is. There has been plenty of speculation over the stability of the UKs mobile infrastructure to handle the added infrastructure load as a result of the London Olympic games, with theCabinet Office already warning business and the public that the Olympics 'could crash the internet'. It has advised more companies to get more employees working from home, and look at alternative internet usage arrangements to take the load of Wi-Fi hotspots, mobile networks, and broadband.

The explosion of social networking offers huge opportunities to the IOC, Reuters reports, but with much of its revenues dependent on the billion-dollar deals agreed with broadcasters, the body overseeing the Games will also have to protect those long-held rights. Fans inside a stadium will be allowed to use their smartphones to film Usain Bolt on the track or Michael Phelps in the pool, but they will not be allowed to upload it to Facebook in a ruling that may surprise many tech-savvy fans who now upload clips on a regular basis.

When VoucherCodesPro noticed significantly high traffic on their money-saving website during working hours, they wondered just how much time people at work spend using social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. They asked over 1,000 people in the UK, 69% of which worked Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, about their social media use during the working day, excluding during their own time such as lunch or other breaks. The results may concern business owners.

Several UK Internet providers expanded their blockade of The Pirate Bay last week. Sky Broadband, Virgin Media and TalkTalk are now blocking user access to several IP-addresses the BitTorrent site added in recent weeks. Whether this will have any effect is doubtful. At the weekend, The Pirate Bay was getting ready to add a new address and meanwhile the hundreds of proxy sites remain accessible.

A dress shop committed an act of unfathomable stupidity today when it tweeted that references to "Aurora," site of the horrific theatre massacre in Colorado, were "clearly about our Kim K inspired #Aurora dress." The incident has proved remarkable not only for the depth of the Celeb Boutique's idiocy but for the virulent and mob-like response it has invoked. As of Friday afternoon, Twitter is alight with thousands of people calling the company vile names and demanding that it pay money to a victim's fund.

Along with new social media platform integration with Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Foursquare and Google+ IOC has also introduced the Olympic Athlete's Hub. The Athlete's hub is an online destination that collects the Twitter and Facebook streams of Olympic athletes and brings them all to one place. A page on the website called "Inside the Olympic Village," will allow fans to chat directly with Athletes inside the Olympic Village.

On the sidelines of the Simon Harwood trial the judge, Mr Justice Fulford, has been focusing on how high-profile cases are reported in the internet age, making decision with potentially far-reaching significance for the media. Fulford referred in general terms to Harwood's previously chequered disciplinary record, information which, he had already ruled, the jury should not be told. The judge was worried that if jurors stumbled across such details it could influence a decision supposed based purely on what happens in court, a key aspect of the contempt of court law.

The project will be the largest single rural broadband roll-out in Britain, and will mix public and private investment. It is still subject to State Aid approval from European authorities, but should ultimately offer typical speeds of 80Mbps, and peaks of 330Mbps in some areas. Approximately one in five Welsh households currently has very slow or no broadband, but the new contract is likely to drive this figure down to one in 50.

tSosolimited, has been commissioned to develop an intuitive algorithm to track the sentiment of British tweeters about the Olympics by EDF Energy, the official electricity supplier to London 2012, in order to create the "world's first social media driven light show", called "Energy of the Nation" on the London Eye. At 9 p.m., there will be a 30-minute light show projected onto the London Eye. It will happen at the same time every single evening leading up to and during the Olympics and Paralympics. The colours of the lights will be dictated in real time by the mood of the …

Universal Music - home to Rihanna and U2 - has been told by theEuropean Commission to offer additional concessions if the world's largest music company is to have a chance of winning regulatory approval for its GBP1.2 billion ($1.9 billion) purchase of EMI. The failure to win over Brussels quickly takes Universal, owned by French company Vivendi and run by Briton Lucian Grainge, closer to the point where it will be forced to hand over GBP1.2 billion to EMI's owner Citigroup - without necessarily having won the regulatory approval it needs to complete the transaction.