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RSS isps bbc'You're responsible for your own wi-fi security' say ISPs
News Their comments follow a demonstration of email accounts being hacked through a public access hotspot on the BBC's Watchdog programme. Customers should be responsible for their own wi-fi security, according to... [03 Nov 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 success of the... [23 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]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet For areas outside BT and Virgin's planned coverage areas, Lord Carter has previously suggested that the BBC could be used to help finance high-speed broadband. Do you like getting it from the BBC and its... [21 Apr 2009]
Orange 'on the hunt for BBC, ITV, C4 tech'
News Project Kangaroo started life in 2007 as a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV but was subsequently given the red light by the Competition Commission earlier this year due to fears that it would put... [06 Apr 2009]
Irish ISP to ban illegal music downloaders
News Check out silicon.com's Cheat Sheets… Cheat Sheet: QR codes Working from home Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last month abandoned mass... [02 Feb 2009]
Broadband Britain to get 2Mbps universal service
News Where possible it is now time to address those 'notspots' in terms of availability and I think that's really on the basis that broadband is increasingly being seen as a basic utility for households, both in terms of the benefits of... [29 Jan 2009]
iPlayer and chums coming to your set-top box and mobile
News Having conquered the PC world with one million requests per day, the BBC's iPlayer could soon be coming to your set-top box. An agreement announced today between the BBC, BT and ITV will see the... [11 Dec 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News One of the authors of the amendments, the British Conservative MEP Malcolm Harbour, told the BBC on Tuesday that the amendments "have nothing to do with copyright enforcement". The 'telecoms package', which on Monday... [09 Jul 2008]
BBC iPlayer hits 75 million downloads
News There was initial criticism of iPlayer due to it only being available on the Windows XP platform, but the BBC has worked to introduce the service on other platforms such as Virgin Media.iPlayer's popularity has also... [20 May 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News The trend for online video content and popular bandwidth-heavy apps - such as the BBC's iPlayer - has led to concerns among ISPs their infrastructure will soon be creaking under the strain. As web users'... [09 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost
News Bandwidth-draining apps such as the BBC iPlayer may also be causing ISPs to scratch their heads over their broadband strategies, he added. He added: "In the longer term what's going to happen is that at... [09 May 2008]
iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity
News The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of the on-demand TV service. This is the first time iPlayer has been available on a TV platform and will bring full... [30 Apr 2008]
Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...
News BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage Soon to be ex-BBC tech chief Ashley Highfield raised interesting points about how the broadband industry should deal with the explosion of online... [28 Apr 2008]
