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News Huggers, who joined the BBC last year and is currently group controller of the Future Media and Technology division, replaces Ashley Highfield - who left to become CEO of on-demand online media player Kangaroo, a joint venture between BBC... [18 Jul 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News Kangaroo - which is headed up by ex-BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield - aims to bring together content from all three UK broadcasters along with syndicating rights to other video on demand services. [30 Jun 2008]
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... [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... [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... [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... [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. [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... [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... [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... [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... [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. [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... [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... [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... [10 Jan 2008]
