From New Media Age

• Lord Stephen Carter admits Digital Britain report overlooked consumer issues

  Lord Stephen Carter has acknowledged a lack of content about consumer issues such as privacy, internet neutrality and behavioural targeting within January's interim Digital Britain report

• BBC appoints first online access champion

  The BBC has appointed its first online access champion in a bid to get more people to use its online services

• Pirate Bay founders receive jail sentence

  A Swedish court has ruled the founders behind file sharing site The Pirate Bay guilty of assisting copyright infringement

From Marketing Direct

• Unilever personal care brands sponsor British Lotus F1 Team

  Rexona (Sure in the UK) and Clear, the deodorant and anti-dandruff brands owned by Unilever, are to sponsor British Formula 1 team Lotus in a multi-year deal.

• Marketers need to work on loyalty activation, research claims

  Marketers are not doing enough to make customers activate loyalty programmes, with two in five (39%) people not using all the loyalty programmes they are enrolled in, according to findings from ICM Research.

• Change4Life tackles sensible drinking mission

  The Department of Health has launched its first Change4Life ad focused solely on encouraging sensible alcohol consumption.

From The Telegraph

• Teenagers 'prefer social media to TV'

  Teenagers now list using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as their number one pastime, overtaking watching television, according to a new report.

• Tweeter Paul Chambers challenges High Court conviction

  Paul Chambers, who was found guilty of sending a menacing "tweet" about Robin Hood Airport, challenges his conviction at the High Court today.

• Japanese vending machines to offer free WiFi

  New high-tech vending machines offering free WiFi hot spots in addition to selling soft drinks are to be installed across Japan.