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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]
Build an RSS DataList Control in ASP.NET
White Paper SitePoint now publishes RSS, and large news agencies like the BBC, the New York Times and CNN also publish RSS feeds. RSS is finally getting the recognition it deserves. Now, developers can integrate content from a wide... [25 Jun 2009]
RSS: Hot Fix for Info-Junkies
White Paper Although it has been around since December 2000, the standard recently got a boost when major Web sites like those for BBC News and Variety began featuring RSS news feeds. The RSS standard describes a simple framework to... [25 Jun 2009]
BBC: The BBC & Enterprise Portals
White Paper The BBC has been a world leader in programme production since it was formed in 1922. Prior to the implementation of SAP R/3, the BBC had multiple, old and inefficient systems for managing its business. [25 Jun 2009]
Raw Material
White Paper It specialises in documentaries for a variety of international broadcasters including The Discovery Channel, the BBC and National Geographic Channels. Television production companies need to continually come up with... [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]
Delays taint Canvas as Trust needs more info
News A proposed TV joint venture between the BBC, ITV and telecoms group BT has been delayed after the body which oversees the publicly owned corporation said it needed more information to approve the plan. [05 Jun 2009]
Keith Little
CIO Profile Keith Little joined the BBC in 2001 and as CIO is in charge of Auntie's IT, production and broadcast technologies. Recent projects Little has been working on include the completion of an end-to-end refresh of the... [03 Jun 2009]
BBC, Google in talks over international iPlayer?
News According to media reports, BBC director general Mark Thomson is in negotiations with Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the possibility of hosting long-form BBC content on Google-owned video website, YouTube. [29 May 2009]
Orange walks away from Kangaroo buy
News Project Kangaroo started life as a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV to develop a platform to play on-demand content from all three. Some very valuable digital assets were developed for Project... [21 May 2009]
