Arqiva is hunting for an investment partner for its online TV venture SeeSaw, with options including a complete sale of the operation thought to be under consideration. The company, which handles TV and radio transmitters for most UK broadcasters and is a partner in the BBC-backed YouView video-on-demand venture, launched SeeSaw in February last year. Last October Arqiva completed a strategic review of the SeeSaw, which employs about 30 staff, and is set to kick off the hunt for an investment partner.

 

Erik Huggers has quit his new media and technology role at the BBC for a job with chip maker Intel. The one-time Microsoft exec, who joined the Beeb in May 2007, steered Auntie's iPlayer strategy and oversaw the corporation's online estate, which is now undergoing budget cuts and a significant webpage cull. BBC Director-General Mark Thompson told staff that Huggers would leave at the end of February to take on the job of vice-president and general manager of Intel's digital home group.

 

Most multi-chargers bore me to tears, but JoyFactory's Zip, Touch-n-go looks like it was designed by people who actually care what these things look like on your desk. It uses magnets to connect the gadgets' cables to the charging-pod. It's not on sale yet, however JoyFactory claims it'll come in somewhere between $49 and $99. That's a wide pool to shoot in, but if it means I can minimize cable clutter in my house, while looking damn stylish in the process, I'm ready and waiting with my credit card.

Anssi Vanjoki, who you’ll recall was supposed to be the saviour of Nokia before he dramatically resigned the day before a major show, has clearly decided not to retire into history, head off into the sunset and play golf. Instead, it would appear that after many years at the top of Nokia’s hierarchy, he has built up enough personal wealth to turn his hand towards startup investing. He’s now invested not in his golf swing, but in Finnish start-up called GameBook, a social technology for golfers created with golf pros. Vanjoki is joining the board, but the terms of his investment have not been disclosed.

Samsung promised a Froyo (Android 2.2) update for US Galaxy S owners, yet have failed to deliver before the end of 2010. There were conspiracy theories last week as owners start to lose patience and now we see a new updated Samsung Vibrant passing through the FCC bound for T-Mobile. Is the fastest way to get an updated Galaxy S really going to be for you to purchase a Nexus S or to buy a Samsung Vibrant 4G?

Germany's Netbiscuits is one of the industry's most successful web site and app creators, with  clients include eBay,  Time Inc, Universal Music Group and MTV. It claims to power more than 10,000 mobile sites and apps. The new funds will be used to improve tech, extend the partner programme and “to take the company’s growth strategy for the US to the next level and expand business in core markets in Europe and Asia."

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IT security firm, Sophos’s annual Security Threat Report, has uncovered a sharp rise in the amount of cyber crime attacks on social network users – but why? According security analysts, there are two reasons for the increase. Firstly email services’ anti-spam security measures are incredibly sophisticated compared to social networks’ respective security precautions. Consequently cyber criminals are able to attack social network users with greater ease. And secondly, spam is more effective on sites like Twitter and Facebook, because people trust the users sending the infected messages.

Honestly, Steve Jobs turns his back for five seconds and Hugh Hefner sneaks an iPad version of Playboy through the iTunes approval system. Or so it would seem given Hef's latest tweets on the matter, in which he claims: "Big news! Playboy - both old & new - will be available on iPad beginning in March." In a reply to a follower eager to know just how much flesh will be on show, he also states, "Playboy on iPad will be uncensored."

After the sheer madness and reams of shiny gadgets of CES 2011, we barely have time to pause for breath before the annual mobile phone-a-thon of Mobile World Congress 2011 is upon us. While CES saw a near-record number of top end mobile phones released from the Las Vegas jamboree, MWC 2011 still promises to be the place to see all manner of new handsets and tablets. So we've trekked across the digital rumour-space and looked for all the info on what to expect from the Barcelona event - keep coming back as we'll be constantly updating it whenever some new morsel of info or spy shot comes into view.

The first pictures of the forthcoming Palm-powered tablet range have emerged, courtesy of a tipster to Engadget. The first is codenamed Topaz and will be the 9-inch variant, while the Opal will be its 7-inch little brother. As you can see, HP also sees the tablet market as slightly segmented between those that want the larger-screened experience, and those that want to be able to hold a tablet (sort of) easily in one hand. Both will be running a single-core 1.2GHz processor, according to Engadget's tipster, and will be shipping to Palm in June ready for a launch later this year.