BT accelerates broadband drive

10am: BT is hooking up a further 50 towns and cities to high speed internet access as its new chief executive pledged to place broadband at the heart of BT's future strategy, writes Owen Gibson.

Freeserve accuses BT

1.15pm: Freeserve has accused BT of pursuing a campaign of anti-competitive behaviour, reports Owen Gibson.

AOL pays price of boom years with $54bn write-off

AOL Time Warner will take a record $54bn (£38bn) charge, reflecting the crumbling values of media companies since the group was formed through a blockbusting merger a year ago. By David Teather.

Eidos loses game revenue

Computer games company Eidos yesterday warned revenues for the full year are likely to come in about £15m below expectations, writes John Cassy.

Future licks its wounds

10.45am: Publisher Future Network today admitted it over-extended itself during the dotcom boom, with losses doubling to £121m in the last year. By Owen Gibson.

Top Murdoch lawyer to fight hacking claim

Rupert Murdoch has called in his most senior legal adviser to fight a $1bn court claim that a subsidiary of his News Corporation helped hackers spread across the internet secrets about the technology used by his pay TV rivals. By John Cassy.

Murdoch security chief linked to TV piracy site

Evidence in the hands of the Guardian suggests that a former Scotland Yard commander who represents two of Rupert Murdoch's companies provided funds to a website that enabled counterfeiters to produce forged smart cards used to defraud ITV Digital, write John Cassy, David Leigh and Kevin Maguire.

Breaking the code

The government should take seriously the allegations that an associated company of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp tried to destroy competitors by helping hackers to crack codes.

Piracy piles on the agony for Monkey

ITV Digital has been unable to close the yawning gap between the digital terrestrial pay TV service and Rupert Murdoch's satellite leviathan BSkyB, writes John Cassy.