The Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) has selected Belgium-based Newtec to upgrade its infrastructure to bring the first high definition Olympic Games to the Middle East and North Africa. The infrastructure upgrades will allow the ASBU members to receive the live Olympic multilateral feeds and news channels in HD, and will also turn the HD signals to provide simultaneous SD broadcasting. The content will be injected into the central archive of the ASBU Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite, allowing members to access the content at a later time. 

With the recent riots spreading across London, Twitter has seen an enormous uptake in traffic among British online users. Experian Hitwise reports within the three days of violence, UK visits to Twitter were so frequent that a new all-time record was set.