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Police has said that thousands of Red Shirt protesters Monday ignored a government demand they cede the downtown Bangkok territory they've held since March.

The Bangkok Nation reported, quoting a hospital spokesman, that the stalemate continued after a renegade general supporting the protesters died of a bullet wound, officials said. Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdipol, also known as Seh Daeng, died at Vajira Hospital Monday of a head wound from a sniper bullet suffered last week.

BBC has become a household name in Britain with its popular news broadcasting services.

It is believed that BBC News has gained a popular image in the UK, better than even the Armed Forces or the Royal Family, said the Director General of BBC Mark Thompson.

A new business alliance between the UK-based satellite broadcaster BSkyB and the information services provider Experian has started taking shape aiming at mutual benefits.

This business venture, which makes BSkyB a major stakeholder seeks to provide database marketing services for the cable company.

The yet to be named venture will provide a wide range of service offerings in the area of database content management.

It is believed that a solar storm is responsible for knocking out the systems on a TV communications satellite.

The satellite named Galaxy 15 supposedly has moved from its position and scientists are finding it difficult to remotely steer the satellite back to its orbit.

However, the best thing is that Galaxy 15 is still receiving and transmitting television signals. But the problem in hand is that it is now getting closer to AMC 11, a US cable based satellite. If Galaxy 15 is not stopped before May 23, the signals will start to overlap.

Pay TV has a solid client base that was left unshaken even amidst the global financial crisis.

It was a situation when Pay TV had to ask for more and even charged more from users. Still subscribers stayed with them, making the industry recession proof.

This now follows a new study from the Yankee Group, US that claims that things will take a tremendous shift as twelve per cent of pay TV subscribers planning on cutting back or cutting off their cable and satellite TV subscriptions.

The immense growth in digital television viewing in the UK seems unstoppable.

It is believed that in the recent years the old terrestrial analogue will be replaced and instead, access to infinite digital channels will become normal, except in case of prisoners, reports stated.

According to a prisoner from HMP Whatton who through a letter comments that the current TV options available are BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky Sports News, ITV3, The Music Factory (TMF) and Film 4, a comfort in case of a "stereotypical" criminal.