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BBC iPlayer gets portable with Windows Media
News BBC iPlayer will now work on portable devices that support Microsoft Windows Media-protected content, opening the service up to more portable devices than ever. Users will be able to transfer - or... [10 Oct 2008]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile Earlier this year Highfield left his role as BBC director of future media and technology to head up Project Kangaroo - a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 to create... [07 Oct 2008]
Beeb names website controller
News The new controller will also be accountable to the Beeb's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, for the performance of the website. The BBC has appointed Seetha Kumar as controller of... [03 Sep 2008]
BBC adds series stacking to iPlayer
News The success of this feature will also determine whether it becomes available for BBC's download service and also onto other platforms including the Nintendo Wii and Virgin Media. The millions of TV... [27 Aug 2008]
BBC reveals iPlayer user habits
News Writing on the BBC blog, Anthony Rose, head of digital media for BBC Future Media and Technology, said: "It's great to have some solid evidence to back up our ideas on... [06 Aug 2008]
Beeb appoints new iPlayer chief
News The BBC has appointed former Microsoft employee, Erik Huggers, as the new director of its Future Media and Technology division. Huggers, who joined the BBC last year and... [18 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment Journalists who worked there have gone on to such organisations as Al Jazeera, the BBC, Channel 4, CNN, The Guardian and Times Online. It's a real privilege to be involved in a new medium and the... [07 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... [30 Jun 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News Speaking in London today, BBC group controller for Future Media and Technology, Erik Huggers, said: "We’ve learned quite a bit over the last 12 months about what our audience likes… and we've continued... [25 Jun 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News In a recent posting on his BBC blog, Ashley Highfield, the corporation's director of future media and technology, defended the iPlayer: "I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content... [21 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 seems that the big-bang introduction of so many flights at once was too much... [16 Apr 2008]
BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage
News In a posting on the BBC blog Highfield, the corporation's director of future media and technology, said: "I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content providers. BBC... [04 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment In the UK, for example, the BBC is funded by licence fees paid by some 24 million households, plus hotels, pubs, restaurants and offices. In recent years the BBC has enjoyed an estimated 350 million... [26 Mar 2008]
Is online TV throttling broadband networks?
News Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux Specifically the recent surge of interest in the BBC's iPlayer online on-demand TV service raised this issue following a massive 3.5 million programmes being... [28 Jan 2008]
BBC beds down with MySpaceTV
News Simon Danker, director of digital media for BBC Worldwide said the partnership continues the Beeb's strategy of putting content where audiences are increasingly spending time. BBC... [24 Jan 2008]
