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YouView, the UK’s next generation TV service, has reportedly hit a severe delay that might see its launch knocked back more than a year. Formallyannouncedback in September last year and previously know as ‘Project Canvas’, YouView sits somewhere between being an enhanced cable service and Google TV’s app-focused approach to Internet-connected TV. It will offer a programme guide that goes ‘back in time’ using catch-up TV services like BBC iPlayer to stream programmes, while it will offer a platform for developers to build apps on top of....

Lord Alan Sugar is known to millions in the UK for yelling “Yer fired!” to hopefuls on TV’s The Apprenctice. Now it appears thatYouView, the planned UK Internet TV service that combines a standard PVR and catch-up services with a TV-based apps platform, could suffer the same treatment. The Telegraph’s Emma Barnett (whose un-named sources on YouView have been accurate in the past)reportsthat Lord Sugar, who recently came on board at YouView as Chairman, is set to “Cure or kill off YouView”....

UK is spending £3B to completely overhaul its bus system ‘Turn up and go’ services Commenting on the announcement, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Buses are this country’s favourite way of getting around. They help us get to school, to the GP, or to the shops – but services across England are patchy, and it’s frankly not good enough. “The quality of bus service you receive shouldn’t be dependent on where you live....

A UK High Court judge has ruled that BT must block access toNewzbin 2, a popular platform for sharing pirated movie links. The BBCreportsthat Justice Arnold ruled that BT had ‘actual’ knowledge of people using the service to infringe copyright, noting that: “It knows that the users and operators of Newzbin2 infringe copyright on a large scale, and in particular infringe the copyrights of the Studios in large numbers of their films and television programmes....

Around 100 sites, including The Pirate Bay, are on a list of filesharing and digital file locker services that could be blocked by ISPs in the UK under a voluntary code currently being discussed. The Guardianreports that talks are underway between media rights holders and major ISPs following delays to The Digital Economy Act.Passedin the UK last year, the act opened the doors to ISPs being forced to ‘blacklist’ repeat copyright infringers – something that they aren’t keen on being forced to do....