Channel 4 News producer Rachel Seifert found out during her two month-long stint using the site, posing as a 13-year old, Habbo Hotel is playing regular host to highly sexual exchanges. "The chat was very sexual, perverse, violent, pornographic, overtly sexual acts, people saying they were going to do things to others, and it was very graphic," said Seifert.Children as young as eight are believed to be using the site, which last month, according to online audience measurement company, Quantcast, attracted 291,000 British teenage players.

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said the proposed approach would give greater protection to operators who complied with the procedure, ahead of Tuesday's second reading in Parliament of the Defamation Bill. Website operators would be forced under new British laws to reveal the identity of those who post defamatory comments on their forums, a move that aims to protect victims by speeding up what is often a lengthy and expensive legal process.

Sky Austria, part owned by News Corp, is not entitled to payments from a rival broadcaster using its soccer coverage for clips in news reports, an adviser to Europe's highest court said on Tuesday. Although being played out in one of Europe's smaller TV markets, the case is likely to be widely watched across the continent, where offshoots of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp have bought up live rights to sports to encourage consumers to sign up for pay TV services.

Finnish startup Digital Foodie has teamed up with a grocery retailer to install digital virtual stores at busy commuter locations in the capital Helsinki. Virtual displays of food products carry barcodes which can be scanned using smartphones by consumers who belong to Digital Foodie's social shopping platform, Foodie.fm. The food thus ordered can then be delivered to their home the same day. The virtual stores feature products from S Group's grocery chain Alepa, which also has around 80 conventional stores in the Helsinki area.

The app gives users access to live simulcasts of both Eurosport and Eurosport 2 TV channels which will broadcast a range of events from the 2012 Olympics as well as the US Open tennis Grand Slam. A Samsung tie-up ensures that Samsung SIII purchasers will receive a month long promotional subscription to the app for the period of the London Olympics.

Under the original wording of its London Underground Wi-Fi service, the cable company effectively had the right to monitor passengers' web history and emails, prompting complaints from MPs Steve Pound and Robert Halfon. These concerns were highlighted by the London Evening Standard and Virgin has since altered its terms to provide greater clarity, although the company insisted that its intentions are still the same.

According to a new survey from DTT platform Freeview, over 34 million Brits are expected to watch the sumer's sporting events on TV, which include the London 2012 Olympics, the Euro 2012 football championship, the French Open, the F1 season, horse racing at Ascot, the Wimbledon tennis championship, and the British Open gold championship. Around one in eight (14%) viewers will watch at least some of the action on a laptop, according to the survey, and one in ten (10%) on on a desktop computer. Only one in 20 viewers (5%) is expected to watch the action on a tablet …

With the adoption of tablets and smartphones, watching TV has become something audiences participate in rather than just sit back and watch. According to former Channel 4 executive Matt Locke, founder of multiplatform producer Storythings, some 60% of UK viewers now have a laptop or tablet computer running while they are watching television and are very often commenting on the show unfolding. "There has been a big consumer uptake of tablets and iPhones; we started noticing people talking about shows while watching them," says Locke.

The 3D news app is on approximately one in four iPads in France and is the highest grossing app for the Apple tablet in the French App Store. Lekiosk is a digital newsstand app for iOS which allows consumers to purchase and start reading magazines easily. Magazines are displayed in a visually intriguing way that is designed to recreate the feeling of reading in print. Users can also create a virtual library of their favourite content to access whenever they want. As you might expect with a real newsstand, browsers can scroll through all available magazines and then purchase them …

BBC News is second for Facebook sharing, behind the Mail Online, which is the most shared British media outlet on Facebook. The Mail Online has an average of 624,278 shares a month accounting for 33% to 40% of news stories. The Mail, which publishes the greatest number of stories of the 10 outlets, was fourth when it came to tweets, behind the BBC, Guardian and Telegraph. The Guardian was the second most shared news source UK news outlet on Twitter, with an average of 265,145 tweets per month, and third most shared outlet on Facebook. A fifth of all tweets …