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Facebook founder tops Agenda Setters list
News Reflecting the increasing role of web 2.0, the BBC's director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield (5), rose three places, primarily for his work around the iPlayer online TV service. Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and CEO of... [17 Oct 2007]
BBC iPlayer petition hits 10,000
News At the launch of the iPlayer last month, Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC, said: "I'm fundamentally committed to universality. More than 10,000 people have signed an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website... [23 Jul 2007]
BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0
News Future media and technology director at the BBC, Ashley Highfield, has further fleshed out the organisation's plans to work with and distribute content digitally, admitting which areas are hardest and easiest to tackle and pointing towards a... [03 Jul 2007]
BBC iPlayer goes public
News Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC said the iPlayer underpins the corporation's Creative Future strategy "to maintain the BBC's relevance among all audiences in the digital age". [27 Jun 2007]
BBC eyes location in mobile content future
News Speaking at the FT Mobile Media conference, the BBC's director of future media, Ashley Highfield, said the broadcaster - now the UK's favourite mobile web destination - believes mobile content is shortly to enter a boom time. [16 May 2007]
BBC's iPlayer is go
News Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of future media and technology, said the iPlayer is a critical part of Auntie's strategy to "maintain impact and relevance in a world where viewing and listening habits are shifting from linear to on-demand". [30 Apr 2007]
Beeb tunes in to IBM's Marvel to sort its content
News Ashley Highfield, director of future media and technology at the BBC, said in a statement the alliance with IBM will offer "new and genuinely innovative services to our audiences". The BBC has announced it will work with IBM to develop its online... [05 Mar 2007]
Gates snuggles up to Auntie Beeb
News The memorandum was signed by the Beeb's director general Mark Thomson, the director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday in Seattle. Highfield cited Microsoft's MSN service, Windows Media... [29 Sep 2006]
Microsoft's Ozzie named the top man in tech
News Past winners include Ashley Highfield (2004), Steve Jobs (2003), Rupert Murdoch (2002), Steve Case (2001) and Sir Christopher Gent (2000). For leading Microsoft into the post-Bill Gates era, Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at the software giant... [25 Sep 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News Today we catch up with last year's number 3, Ashley Highfield. It's been another very busy year for Ashley Highfield, the 2004 Agenda Setters winner and last year's third place. If you want to pass on your comments for our experts - about Ashley... [19 Sep 2006]
BBC2 goes mad for broadband
News Roly Keating's announcement is very much in keeping with the BBC's broader ethos of a move to emerging forms of broadcasting content - a charge led by Ashley Highfield, a silicon.com Agenda Setter and the Beeb's director of new media and technology. [25 Nov 2005]
Google's Schmidt named the top man in tech
News Schmidt beat 2004 winner Ashley Highfield from the BBC, who comes in third this year, and 2003 winner Steve Jobs, who came second in 2004 and now again in 2005. For moulding an internet upstart into a solid business that's becoming more and more... [27 Sep 2005]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News Today we catch up with last year's winner, Ashley Highfield. Certainly the BBC has not slowed its push towards new technologies but the efforts of others, rather than a diminishment of Ashley Highfield's own drive, could account for any potential... [21 Sep 2005]
Jobs trumps Torvalds in 'popular vote'
News Although the far lesser known Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology at the BBC, came top of the silicon.com list judged by a panel of industry experts, the popular reader vote appears to have been ambushed by an anti-Microsoft... [04 Nov 2004]
BBC's Highfield beats Jobs as top man in tech
News For working to bring about a 100 per cent digital Britain and innovating in the space that merges new media and television, Ashley Highfield, BBC's director of technology, has beaten tech stalwarts such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to be named... [27 Sep 2004]
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