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The Northern Ireland capital plans to make itself one of the most connected cities in Europe with widespread Wi-Fi to cover Belfast by 2015. Guaranteed funding of £6 million is already available through Westminster's plans to create Super Connected Cities. Further funding is possible through the scheme, and the Belfast City Council will be putting forward a bid which it hopes will more than double this funding.

A new study suggests that people in the UK could soon be shopping online in large numbers from the television sets in their living rooms.

After trials, Wi-Fi in the London Underground has gone live in two stations (Warren Street and King's Cross), with plans to fit 80 stations out before the Olympics, which are now only a few weeks away. From the article: '"Our new Wi-Fi service is a fantastic deal for Londoners, with live travel updates, entertainment and news freely available to everyone while they are on the move across the capital," said Gareth Powell, London Underground's director of strategy and service development. "Wi-Fi at Tube stations will help us improve the journeys of the millions of people that use the Underground everyday at no cost to fare or tax payers.

This AR political intervention could probably be improved by covering London with tens of thousands of tiny but intensely annoying real-life firecrackers. An interactive game installation is proposed across a number of sites in London, by introducing a social game intervention known as "Detonator". The game design is configured based on key data relating to the use of landmines during war in many regions of the world, as well as the continued refusal of countries that have not joined an international convention to ban the use of landmines.

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has revealed that it's launching a mentoring scheme for digital startups called BBC Labs. The official launch event is on June 22 at Google's Campus, a co-working space in east London. The six month programme is aimed at emerging digital media companies in the UK, with a view towards helping the selected startups gain traction and scale by working closely with them - the ultimate goal is to help them strike a commercial partnership with BBC Worldwide.