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Comment BBC warned after busting website budget The BBC's online service is not, with small exception, a justified charge against the Broadcast Licence Fee. The BBC has far exceeded its remit and seems to be just growing and spending. [05 Jun 2008]
BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage
News BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at ISPs who want online organisations to pay extra for distributing bandwidth-draining video and multimedia content. In a posting on the BBC blog Highfield, the corporation's director of future media... [04 Apr 2008]
iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs
News The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general, Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting responding to questions about the BBC's approach to... [08 Feb 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News The BBC's online on-demand iPlayer for watching TV on the web had a good Christmas with 3.5 million hits but this sparked a debate about whether ISPs can cope with the increased bandwidth consumption, with speculation that content providers such... [30 Jan 2008]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News The speakers at the eForum touched on various applications - from videoconferencing to greater opportunities for homeworking to the rise of social networking and even the BBC's iPlayer - that might benefit from improved broadband infrastructure. [22 Nov 2007]
Techies split over wi-fi health fears
News Concerns about the health implications of wi-fi surfaced this week following a BBC Panorama investigation into wireless networks in schools. Readers were asked whether they are worried about the health implications of the increasing use of wi-fi... [24 May 2007]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News As director of new media and technology at the BBC, he has been working hard on the concept of 'BBC.co.uk 2.0' - the Beeb's version of web 2.0. Key projects include the BBC iPlayer, which will allow 'catch-up' TV up to seven days after it is... [19 Sep 2006]
BBC hits outsourcing costs snag
News The BBC said it had invited the NAO to conduct the report as it had "never undertaken an outsourcing deal of this scale", and admitted "some lessons can be learnt about developing large outsourcing deals". [13 Jul 2006]
BBC.com to be funded by advertising?
News The BBC has admitted it is to look at funding a website for non-UK surfers with online advertising. A spokesman for the corporation told silicon.com that media reports claiming the BBC is considering the use of advertising to fund bbc.com... [30 Mar 2006]
Taxman admits to "virulent" mass ID fraud
News Varney also admitted other similar lists could also be in the hands of fraudsters but said HMRC is still "at a very early stage of knowing what the extent of this fraud is", according to the BBC News website. [16 Dec 2005]
Job applicants to face ID card checks
News This Home Office-convened private sector ID card user group contains some of UK Plc's biggest employers, including the likes of BA, BAE Systems, Barclays, BBC, BP, BT, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Pfizer, Procter and Gamble, Rolls-Royce, Royal Mail... [26 Sep 2005]
Internet child pornography arrests quadruple
News A spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that such a unit could operate as part of the new Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which has been likened to a UK version of the FBI. [04 Mar 2005]
BT's 21CN - 'We'll learn as we go'
News The BBC's Nick Ross was interviewing Ansell, along with Cisco's president of operations Robert Lloyd. BT has admitted that it doesn't know exactly how it will implement its multi-billion pound upgrade of its national telecommunications infrastructure. [24 Feb 2005]
Opinion: E-government failing taxpayers?
Comment It's 31 January and on the BBC Breakfast News, I watched an amused Declan Curry warn self-assessment taxpayers that they had until midnight tonight to file their annual return or face a £100 fine. The Revenue is, after all, no closer to discovering... [31 Jan 2005]
Tsunami hoaxer jailed for sick joke
News According to a report on the BBC the victims of his hoax weren't convinced by this argument, with one claiming the cruel emails had caused indescribable levels of suffering for them and their family. Appearing at Bow Street Magistrates, Pierson... [24 Jan 2005]
