TV in comment and analysis
Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment In some ways it is a compelling product for the so-called digital lifestyle although the Apple TV captures that slot and the Mac Mini isn't really marketed in that way. Even now, it seems like a computer that desperately... [26 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: United breaks guitars?
Comment During the whole process Carroll managed to get substantial press and even national TV coverage. Compiled at JFK Airport whilst waiting for BA 178 to fly me home via London Heathrow. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free... [14 Oct 2009]
Erik Huggers
AS Profile But Huggers is also responsible for other BBC technology areas such as online output, interactive TV and mobile, not to mention the BBC's own infrastructure. Since becoming director of the BBC's Future Media and... [29 Sep 2009]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile Ashley Highfield has fallen from number seven in 2008's Agenda Setters list following his move from the Kangaroo online TV joint venture where he was CEO, to Microsoft UK as managing director and VP of consumer and online. [29 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment Use [TV service] TiVo, not real-time broadcasts. In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Canadian author Douglas Coupland reveals his attitudes towards technology and its influence on his zeitgeist-defining books. [08 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment The UK is making rapid progress and the sale of digital TV sets is progressing well. You can see an example of pixilation problems with a US digital TV service in this video clip on YouTube. So are there... [11 Aug 2009]
BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment This is an exciting project - it essentially means people will be able to get on-demand TV content and online apps on their televisions via a set-top box. The BBC is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't when it... [31 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Three clicks away from eight million people
Comment The first of these was the printing press, followed later by the telegraph, telephone, radio and TV broadcast networks. Compiled at the IoD and various hotels in London over several days, polished on TG409 flying Bangkok... [23 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Iran, tweets and e-democracy
Comment Like most of you I have been following the aftermath of the Iranian election via printed press, radio and TV. Compiled at the IoD in London and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service on the same day [29 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.06.09
Round-Up Maybe you have a boss so ill-tempered he or she makes Alan Sugar look like a children's TV presenter. Also in the report: The BBC looks likely to lose its vice-like grip on the monies raised by the licence fee under the... [19 Jun 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment Giving consumers guaranteed access to slow-lane broadband and encouraging them to watch more TV hardly looks like a "cunning plan for restimulating economic growth in the UK", he adds. The government's Digital Britain... [19 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.06.09
Round-Up Of course, there is one other potential inspiration - TV show Friends' character Chandler Bing. Bada Bing! Some more on Microsoft's latest attempt to catch up with Google in the search engine race - Bing. [05 Jun 2009]
Richard Cross
CIO Profile After working for a digital TV technology company within the media giant, Cross took another position in the television industry, joining Carlton Communications as CTO in 2002. Richard Cross, group technology director at... [03 Jun 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile In 1998 he headed up NTL's internet TV launch, becoming CIO for the company in 2003 and in 2005 he moved to Onetel, part of the Centrica group, also as CIO. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and... [03 Jun 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment In short, my feeling about Napster requires me to paraphrase TV critic Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle: Everything we know today about the music industry, we owe to Fanning and Napster. Ten years after the... [03 Jun 2009]
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