The service would allow people to download TV shows minutes after broadcast and include archived episodes from the British broadcaster's catalogue. BBC Director General Mark Thompson described Project Barcelona as the "digital equivalent" of what people already do in buying DVDs of their favourite programme. BBC News reports the project will be brought before the BBC Trust for approval later this year.

In June, the first mobile app will go live and be free on iPhone and Android phones, giving users access to 315 radio stations that use the internet console. The app will locate the user, suggest local stations, scan music preferences that may exist on the phone and recommend stations. It will also find what audio your Facebook friends like. It will work off both 3G and wifi.

To complement its Gorilla Nation, which targets males, Evolve Media plans to launch Totallyher, a women's lifestyle vertical, in the UK. TotallyherUK will include premium content sites as well as SheKNows, the FashionSpot, Mumtastic and Teenspot, all Evolve-owned and operated. Evolve monetises digital content by organising audiences, research, specialised ad products and sales.

There's a trend emerging in the nation called "chatterboxing" and it involves communicating via online or text message while watching TV. Almost half of those under 35 take part in "two-screen" viewing, says the Telescope 2012 study by the BBC's TV Licensing organisation. And, it finds that chatterboxing adds to the experience of live TV viewing because people enjoy the social media chatter. One psychologist says it taps into people's desire to share emotional experiences.

This summer, it will debut tablet editions of The Daily Mirror and Daily Record. CEO Sly Bailey says the feels will be less than GBP10 a month. Down the road will come mobile website and apps for the company's newspapers that will be launched with an advertiser-backed MirrorOnline app on IPhone and Android platforms. The publisher reported pre-tax profits of GBP74.4m, compared to GBP123.7m the year before. Revenues were down from GBP761.5m to GBP764.6m in the 52 weeks to 2011. Newsprint prices increased by around GBP22m in the period, the company said.

The airline's home page had been pretty static, filled with formulaic content that spoke to no one. Then, the company introduced content that can it can pull into its stop promotional banners, which can change based on a user's search history. Speaking at Sitecore's Digital Trendspot 2012 event, Richard Levin, EasyJet head of CRM, said, "Half of EasyJet customers have a clear idea of where and when they are going to travel so go straight to the booking funnel, but for the other 50%, their decisions are not set in stone, so by offering such formulaic content on the homepage …

One day, Rhodri Marsden discovered that Twitter had given him a coveted (by some) blue tick, indicating that he is who he says he is on the social network. It's a status symbol he wanted nothing to do with.

The stampede to advertise on social networks is behind ZenithOptimedia's forecast that display will soon be the internet's top type of advert. Display will rise from 36% of internet spend in 2011 to 41% in 2014. Already, 25% of advertising money is online in Denmark, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the UK. ZenithOptimedia says Canada, China, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and the UK will hit 30% by 2014.

As Mother's Day approaches March 18, broadband provider Plusnet surveyed 3,000 mums and found that 80% of them go to parenting websites when they need parental advice rather than turning to their parents. Forty-one percent of mums shop online for food and do their banking each week to save time. Fifty-one percent research their children's homework and 99% spend spare time surfing the web.

In what it suspects was the latest attack, email access within some part of the BBC for disrupted for four hours two days after the broadcaster boasted it had nearly doubled its Persian TV audience in two years, to 6 million people. The sophisticated cyber-attack is suspected of being the latest attempt by Iranian authorities to threaten BBC Persian TV, which the corporation nevertheless believes is watched by one in 10 Iranian citizens each week.