When Prince Charles was born in 1948, the announcement was made by a notice pinned to the gates of Buckingham Palace - much has changed in the world of technology since, and with it the way the monarchy communicates. In the monochrome world of 1950s telly, the Queen first appeared to many of her subjects as a small, grainy, black and white figure inside the wooden box in the corner of the room. Her coronation was the country's first live outside broadcast -- and the result of much discussion behind royal doors. The British Monarchy now has its own website, …

Channel 4 will launch a new TV channel called 4Seven next month screening repeats of the programmes viewers and critics have most talked about from the previous seven days, prefaced by a snappy selection of their comments, good and bad. The channel, which takes its place alongside E4, More4 and Film4, will keep open the weekday 8pm and 10pm slots so that shows that create a critical buzz in newspapers, chatter on social media through Twitter and Facebook, and reaction on the overnight log of comments kept by the broadcaster can be repeated the next day.

The move to quarterly publication in print coincides with the launch of a weekly digital edition, which was delivered to 7,000 subscribers for the first time on Thursday. The trade magazine went monthly in 2008. Dominic Ponsford, editor of Press Gazette, said the move to quarterly publication after 43 years was a sign of the challenges facing print titles in the UK. "It hardly needs to be said that with British journalism beset by challenges on all sides there has never been a more pressing need for journalists to have their own publication, fighting their corner, sharing best practice and …

IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) Europe's latest Mediascope Europe study shows that UK internet users spend 32% of their total shopping budget online, followed by German users at 25.4%. The study also found that 96% of European internet users now research their purchases online, while 87% shop online and 19% do all their shopping online. In six months, between September 2011 and February 2012, Europeans spent a total of EUR188 billion online, at an average of EUR544 for each European online shopper. The highest spend came from Norwegians, who spent EUR1,162, on average, while UK shoppers' spend was the fourth highest …

Passengers will be able to check emails, browse the internet and even attempt to watch live TV on their mobiles, tablets and laptops while waiting for trains at 80 stations across the network. Another 40 will be connected by the end of the year. The service, which will be free to everyone for the whole summer, is expected to come online at some stations, including King's Cross, Leicester Square, Oxford Circus and Stratford, within the next couple of weeks. Virgin Media, which is providing the service in partnership with Transport for London, said passengers would be able to connect to …

The harsh criticism reflects comments by celebrities and media commentators yesterday, who condemned the BBC's work as "terrible", "underwhelming" and "mind-numbingly tedious". The complaints were summed up during the river pageant, as comedian and broadcaster Stephen Fry tweeted: "Has the BBC ever presented a more mind-numbingly tedious programme in its history? 'HRH the queen' said the first ignorant presenter. HRH?" He later clarified: "Don't get me wrong peeps, I'm not saying this in relation to ER II's jubilee - just expected better of the beeb. Didn't mean to upset anyone."

According to IAB Europe's most recent media consumption study, Mediascope Europe, there are now close to 427 million Europeans (or 65 percent) using the Internet across four devices - computer, mobile, tablets and games consoles. :More than one third of them (37 percent) accesses the Internet with more than one device, and IAB Europe asserts that Europeans spend 14.8 hours online per week, on average. News websites are particularly popular, it seems: more than 9 in 10 European Internet users, on average, satisfy their news craving online.

Music industry trade body BPI said that in the first three months of the year consumers spent a total of GBP155.8 million on music, up 2.7% year-on-year. Digital music revenues - which includes buying tracks as downloads, paid-for subscriptions and ad-funded services from companies such as Spotify, Napster, We7 and eMusic - accounted for 55.5%, GBP86.5 million, of that total. Digital music revenues grew 23.6% year-on-year, fuelled by big sales of Lana Del Ray songs and the album Born to Die. While digital singles have long been a big revenue earner the sales of digital albums have taken some time …

Both sites will be paywall-free on Saturday and Sunday for the first time since 2010 to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Along with the broadsheets' usual news and sport coverage, the sites will also feature special Jubilee content including interactive graphics and video specials, pageant boat spotter guides, photos of the Queen from the past 60 years and live updates from journalists covering the celebrations. The Sunday Times app will also be available for a free trial this weekend.

Film magazine, Empire, is to launch into the American market today - on Apple Newsstand -- with a bespokeiPad edition. Empire is the world's biggest film magazine, and is currently available in five global markets - the UK, Australia, Italy, Portugal and Russia. Nearly half a million different people visit the publications website from America on a monthly basis, so they hope to capitalise on the market by launching the magazine in an iPad-format. Similar to the UK edition - which launched in late 2010 - the iPad magazine will be a fully interactive app featuring embedded film trailers.