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BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment The BBC is a world leader in developing innovative media technology - so cut it some slack, says Tim Ferguson. The BBC is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't when it comes to developing new... [31 Jul 2009]
Five - why we joined Project Canvas
News Five today announced it was joining the joint venture, which already includes the BBC, BT and ITV, leaving Channel 4 as the one remaining public service broadcaster not to have signed up to the project. [30 Jul 2009]
Five joins BBC and ITV in Canvas picture
News Canvas - a BBC, BT and ITV Canvas joint venture announced in December 2008 - will provide UK homes with access to IPTV via a broadband enabled set-top box in much the same way as Freeview and Freesat currently do with... [30 Jul 2009]
SpinVox: Are you listening?
Comment Claims have been made to the BBC, suggesting that the majority of messages have been heard and transcribed by call centre staff in South Africa and the Philippines. An interesting little tale unfolded last week courtesy... [27 Jul 2009]
Kangaroo tech jumps into Arqiva's hands
News Project Kangaroo, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, was intended to develop a shared online on-demand TV service for the three organisations. It now seems that the money invested in developing the... [23 Jul 2009]
BBC's iPlayer is mobile's most wanted
News The BBC's iPlayer, the corporation's online on-demand TV service, came out as the most desired mobile service in research by analyst house CCS Insight, with almost a third (28 per cent) of users saying they would most... [13 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the BBC: "For goodness' sake, let's grow up. Yes, personality counts but unless you've got a lot of stickers on your side telling the world how official and accredited you... [10 Jul 2009]
Why your business should use Twitter
Comment The BBC appears to be using Twitter as an in-house tool for soliciting audience feedback and many are now styling it as a search engine for current events. Twitter's not just about what you ate for breakfast. [09 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up The BBC coverage also included aggregated Twitter feeds and iPhone experiments, while Aunty integrated its Glastonbury coverage more closely with its new digital video system so content could be more easily formatted for... [03 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Moving away from the Apple roadshow, BT revealed this month that it had throttled download speeds for BBC iPlayer and called for content providers to take on more of the costs for provisioning content. [02 Jul 2009]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The BBC is using the latest online technology to boost its coverage of this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, which starts today. The BBC Glastonbury website received more than 600,000 visitors in... [25 Jun 2009]
Cheat sheet: Project Canvas
Cheat Sheet Well the broadcasters BBC and ITV along with telco BT have teamed up to create a platform for bringing on-demand content to the UK's televisions through new broadband-enabled receivers. Well the BBC's... [23 Jun 2009]
'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
News Among the proposals contained in the report are the provision of universal access to up to 2Mbps broadband and the potential creation of a second public broadcaster to rival the BBC. The government's interim Digital... [15 Jun 2009]
BT calls for end of 'free ride' for BBC's iPlayer
News Internet service provider BT has admitted to throttling provision of the BBC iPlayer, and has called for content providers to shoulder some of the costs of content provision. Last week BT was accused of limiting download... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo The star of the BBC show The Apprentice was chosen for the post thanks to the entrepreneurial instincts that saw him turn electronics manufacturer Amstrad into a household name in the home PC market in the 1980s. [10 Jun 2009]
