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iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity

News Soon to depart BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield, said the corporation always envisaged iPlayer in the living room. The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News Soon to be ex-BBC tech chief Ashley Highfield raised interesting points about how the broadband industry should deal with the explosion of online content. It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the...

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?

Comment Find out what silicon.com Agenda Setter - and BBC director of future media and technology - Ashley Highfield is up to next. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last...

Tags: project, t5, ba

[16 Apr 2008]

BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo

News BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield, is to leave the corporation to head up the Kangaroo online TV service. Highfield will become CEO of Kangaroo, which is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to create...

Tags: itv, channel 4, online, iplayer

[15 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Ashley Highfield BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe.

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 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...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation

News Ashley Highfield Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard...

Tags: google, yahoo, myspace, foundation

[26 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet And the responsibility for all of this falls on the shoulders of the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology unit, Ashley Highfield. Reflecting the importance of this work, Highfield was voted number five in silicon.com's tech industry Agenda...

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Ashley Highfield BBC Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), one of the Time magazine's 100 most...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer continues to soar with 17 million downloads

News Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of Future Media and Technology said: "We've seen a good and consistent climb in programmes watched. Highfield announced iPlayer will also be available for the Apple iTouch and iPhone in the coming weeks.

Tags: iplayer, download, macs, bbc

[20 Feb 2008]

Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!

News Ashley Highfield BBC Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online world...

Tags: microsoft, web, ads, yahoo!

[01 Feb 2008]

BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits

News Ashley Highfield, director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC, said the corporation thought the public's response to the iPlayer represents a "wonderful start". In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Ashley Highfield discussed the...

Tags: iplayer, download, online, streaming

[15 Jan 2008]

BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus

News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com Ashley Highfield, the head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology, suggested a download version of iPlayer for all platforms will emerge in 2008. The BBC's iPlayer website saw a 14-fold increase in...

Tags: iplayer, christmas, youtube, bbc

[10 Jan 2008]

Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux

News In a recent interview with silicon.com, Ashley Highfield, head of the BBC's future media and technology unit, was unable to commit to a download version of iPlayer for Macs and Linux but said he was "pretty certain" there would be one at some...

Tags: vista, streaming, iplayer, linux

[17 Dec 2007]

BBC's iPlayer comes to Macs and Linux

News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com in October, the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield said he couldn't promise a download version would be developed for other non-Windows platforms.

Tags: iplayer, download, on-demand, streaming

[14 Dec 2007]

CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT

News Ashley Highfield Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter.

Tags: londonwaste, cio essentials, cio, person

[11 Dec 2007]

Oracle users demand better support

News Ashley Highfield BBC Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere.

Tags: fusion, oracle, india, egypt

[10 Dec 2007]

Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year

News Ashley Highfield The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National...

Tags: nhs, richard granger, spokeswoman, health

[05 Dec 2007]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Ashley Highfield BBC Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

CIO Essentials: Vista, Kindle and data breaches

News Ashley Highfield Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter.

Tags: cio essentials, graham yellowley, transport, adopt

[27 Nov 2007]

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