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BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment The debate often centres on the licence fee - with protestors claiming the Beeb is wasting taxpayers' money. If the Beeb just kept its content on its television and radio stations, and its website, it... [31 Jul 2009]
BBC's iPlayer is mobile's most wanted
News The BBC's iPlayer, the corporation's online on-demand TV service, came out as the most desired mobile service in research by analyst house CCS Insight, with almost a third (28 per cent) of users saying they would most... [13 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up But, ignoring the kerfuffle over how many people Aunty decided to send to the festival, (the Round-Up is sure they all worked very, very hard) it was heartened to find out that the Beeb brought a veritable high tech... [03 Jul 2009]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The BBC Glastonbury website received more than 600,000 visitors in the week around Glastonbury in 2008 - a figure the Beeb hopes to beat this year. All non-performance images and video and some performance content can be... [25 Jun 2009]
Keith Little
CIO Profile Little has a postgraduate degree in image and video compression technologies - something that must be particularly useful at the Beeb. He's also founder of an online art retailer and is a non-executive... [03 Jun 2009]
'iPlayer users should pay their way': BBC tech boss
News People who only view BBC content through the Beeb's online video-on-demand service iPlayer should pay for the privilege, according to the broadcaster's tech chief. The BBC Trust added at the time that it... [20 May 2009]
iPlayer could force TV licence rethink
News In a report on the way the TV licence fee is collected the Beeb's independent regulator said issues created by recent advances in the way people access television content need to be taken into account. [02 Apr 2009]
BBC to help pay for broadband to every home?
News The Digital Britain report recommends that the Beeb gets involved in marketing, cross-promoting and providing digital content, in order to encourage fat-pipe refuseniks to get connected. According to the minister, the... [11 Mar 2009]
Drunk Facebook pics, iPlayer, BT and outsourcing hotspots
News Erik Huggers, director of the BBC's Future, Media and Technology unit talked to silicon.com about what's in store for the Beeb's online audio and video on-demand service iPlayer. February started with a... [05 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.01.09
Round-Up But even fewer adults have worked out that you can turn off the keypad tones as well, which means anyone over 30 composing a message tends to produce a very audible Morse Code-esque... [30 Jan 2009]
BBC One and Two to go live on web
News The service will also be available on the Beeb's on-demand online TV service iPlayer, alongside BBC content broadcast over the previous seven days. BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live on... [20 Nov 2008]
2012 Olympics 'like a digital Queen's coronation'
News The corporation laid out plans that will see it "significantly" increase its web TV capabilities - with "many more" online video streams than the six it offered during the Beijing Games - as well as supporting a greater... [23 Oct 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets portable with Windows Media
News So far the Beeb has only fully tested iPlayer with the Archos, Philips, Samsung and Sony gadgets but the broadcaster said iPlayer should also work on other devices that support Windows Media DRM content. [10 Oct 2008]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile His impact at the Beeb and beyond is reflected by the fact this is Highfield's fifth consecutive appearance in the Agenda Setters top 10. Since his appearance at number five on the Agenda Setters last year, Highfield has... [07 Oct 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets smart on N96
News N96 users will be the first mobile users to be able to download as well as stream their favourite Beeb programmes onto their device using the online on-demand TV service. The BBC iPlayer will be... [08 Sep 2008]
