While 58% of people communicated via texts on a daily basis in 2011, only 47% made a daily mobile call, said the country's communications industry regulator. It said the shift away from traditional ways of keeping in touch was being led by young people aged 16-24. The new trends were revealed in its annual communications market report. The average UK consumer now sends 50 texts per week while fewer calls are being made on both fixed and mobile phones.

BBC Worldwide announced profits of 8% amid the news that downloads of its global BBC iPlayer app have hit one million since its trial launch a year ago. Headline profit grew to GBP155 million with a 5% rise in headline sales to GBP1.085 billion in the 12 months to 31 March this year. Digital businesses reached 12.8% thanks to a 58% increase on the previous year's 8.1% figure, brought about by the million downloads of iPlayer globally.

Nike is planning to launch a series of real-time promoted tweets during the Olympics through its Jordan brand as part of its 'Rise Above' campaign. The promoted tweets will be updated as events unfold during the Games with messages that Nike first posts to its followers. Using the #riseabove hashtag, it intends to reach a broader audience of sports fanatics beyond Nike's pool of Twitter followers.

The Associated Press reports that several major Polish media companies are joining forces to put some of their best online content behind a combined paywall-an attempt to maintain revenue as print readership declines. The initiative, known as Piano, has already been implemented with success in Slovakia and Slovenia, where people pay a small one-time fee for unlimited access to a range of websites. Poland, with 19.5 million Internet users in a nation of 38 million, represents the first large market to try this pay model, and how it fares could determine whether it takes hold in other countries.

The newspaper is working with CBS Outdoor to update the digital display ads in stations twice a day with the latest news and opinion from the Games as it looks to encourage commuters to access the Telegraph's content via their smartphones, tablets and Kindles. It hopes to target people that would not usually read the Telegraph's content by giving them a direct call to action to sample its journalism at a time when they may be waiting longer on the platform than usual.

In a briefing with staff, Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian and Observer, said digital revenue rose 16.3% to GBP45.7 million in the financial year to 1 April. The Guardian grew its online audience 38% to 67.8 million unique browsers year on year and drove an 80% increase in its digital only US operation. In a briefing with staff, Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian and Observer, said digital revenue rose 16.3% to GBP45.7 million in the financial year to 1 April. The Guardian grew its online audience 38% to 67.8 million unique browsers year on …

Interxion has released the findings of a survey of over 2,000 UK citizens aged 18 and over, conducted by YouGov, looking at how consumers intend to use technology to keep up to date with sport and their preferences towards media consumption. Consumers will have more choice than ever before in how they follow sporting action this summer and updates over the coming months. While traditional TV at home (65%) and public screens (10%) are the most popular medium for watching or listening to sport , 9% will be following the action on personal devices such as a home PC, 7% …

In the UK, tablets took an 8% share of search spend by device in June 2012, with smartphones taking 5% and computers 87%. In the US, 7% of search budget went on tablets, 7% on smartphones and 86% on computers. The findings, Marin Software's Online Advertising -- Q2 2012 Report, come as mobile is seeing a 50% higher click-through-rate than desktop searches. Mobile devices accounted for a 20% share of clicks against a 13% share of spend in June 2012 in the UK.

Speaking at an event in south-east France, Pierre Lescure, former head of Canal+ and tasked with examining the legislation, revealed some of his opinions on the subject, suggesting he was "opposed to cutting internet access" - the sanction that is ultimately meant to be the culmination of Hadopi's three-strike policy. At the same time as criticizing the law, Lescure also suggested that taking sanctions against users accused of illegal filesharing was a crucial part of the process: "Punishment is necessary, but it is not sufficient," he said. "We must maximize the legal provisions.

In the Skype support forums, "shocked" users had said private instant messages had been re-sent to other contacts. Skype then admitted messages sent between two users were being copied to a third party, in "rare circumstances". The net-calling firm said it was working on a fix for the bug, which appears to have been introduced in an update to Skype applied in June. Some users said they would stop using the service because of the glitch. It hoped to put out a software update in the "next few days" to fix the problem.