By Anonymous The ultimate guide to the most influential people in digital 1 Dennis Woodside Vice-president and managing director, Google UK, Benelux and Ireland **** Over the past 12 months, Google's advance towards global dominance has showed no sign of slowing.

By Sarah Arnott Virgin Media launched the BBC iPlayer on its cable television platform yesterday, upping the ante in its ongoing rivalry with BSkyB in the pay TV market.

By Sarah Arnott As demand for downloading television programmes soars, broadcasters and ISPs are arguing over who should foot the bill for keeping the internet up to speed.

By MARTIN WILLIAMS THE growing popularity of the BBC's on-demand video service iPlayer yesterday sparked a further war of words in the row between the broadcaster and internet service providers over who should pay for the increased strain being put on networks by the device.

THE BBC and internet service providers are on a collision course over iPlayer costs. The row is boiling up after the Beeb revealed use of their "on demand" video service had risen by 25 per cent a month since December. Requests for downloads and streams of programmes in March hit 17.2million.