As we recently looked atin depth, mobile data roaming costs are being kept artificially high because operators simply have no incentive to reduce prices as everyone else charges the same. New proposals announced by the European Commission today could make things much cheaper by stimulating competition in the market. At a press conference, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes announced plans to allow European Union citizens to be able to select an alternative mobile provider solely for use when abroad....

The BBC has issued the March instalment of its iPlayer report, documenting significant growth in demand for its radio broadcasts, with one out of every four requests (24%) via its on-demand service consisting of radio programme content, a new iPlayer monthly record. March was a strong month for BBC iPlayer overall, the service hosted 160 million total requests for TV and radio across all platforms, but its radio programmes by the BBC’s sports teams covering the Cricket World Cup and Chris Moyles’ Longest Show Ever, a broadcast spanning 50 hours (breaking a Guiness World Record), helping to boost figures....

The BBC and a number of commercial partners have today launchedRadioplayer. This Web app is designed to bring the BBC’s own publicly funded radio stations together with a wide range of commercial stations, making them available together for the first time. Rather than offer a directory of the stations, the BBC has opted for a simple, freetext search box.Instructions underneath encourage users to try searching for a station, a location, a specific programme or presenter, or a subject that they’re interested in....

How many address books do you have? Personally, just with Google accounts, I have three and they are also synchronized to my Android device. Almost every entry that I have is incomplete, consisting only of a name and an email address. Sometimes you need more than that. There are great solutions such asRapportiveandXobnifor pulling in contextual information and Google’snewly-announced sidebarfor Gmail will help as well. But for that other information, there hasn’t really been a solution untilRainmaker....

This week’s release of iOS 14.5 was a big one. Not only are there interesting new features likemask unlockand a redesigned podcast app, but Apple also went all Wild West onapp tracking. And the tech world took notice. Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg has beenparticularly and repeatedly criticalof Apple strapping on a pair of six shooters and heading to Advert Town to protect your privacy. Of course,Apple is doing this for profit, but that doesn’t make it infuriating Facebook any less delicious....