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News The BBC's revised proposals have settled on an upper limit of 30 days. The BBC has announced its web TV plan will provisionally go ahead, despite concern from media watchdog Ofcom over how the launch would affect the UK's commercial telly. [01 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.05.06
Round-Up There's really only one place to begin this week and that's with the farce at the BBC which saw BBC News 24 interview an entirely clueless member of the public, with a poor grasp of English, live on air about last week's ruling in the Apple v... [19 May 2006]
16,000 back iPlayer petition
News More than 16,000 people have now signed an e-petition protesting about the way the BBC has rolled out its on-demand TV service, iPlayer. The petition urges the Prime Minister to request the BBC develops an iPlayer for non-Windows platforms. [20 Aug 2007]
BBC iPlayer petition hits 10,000
News At the time of writing, 10,006 people had signed the petition calling for the Prime Minster to instruct the BBC to provide the iPlayer for other operating systems, such as Linux or Apple's OS X.iPlayer is the BBC's online on-demand television... [23 Jul 2007]
BBC iPlayer row: The government speaks
News The BBC has already said it wants to make its content as widely available as possible and that an iPlayer for Apple Macs and Microsoft Vista is on its "critical path" for this year. The government has responded to an e-petition protesting against... [07 Sep 2007]
Video iPod: From rumour to reality?
News The UK launch event will take place in BBC Television centre, while the US occasion is scheduled for the California Theatre in San Jose. With Apple confirming it will expand its product line on 12 October, could the Cupertino firm really be lining... [05 Oct 2005]
Photos: Apple unveils new iPods
Photo The launch event was screened live to the UK media at BBC TV Centre in London. Apple has also built in an iTunes wi-fi music store that allows people to search, preview and buy tracks on the move. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new range of... [06 Sep 2007]
Those were the days: The BBC Micro remembered
News Those speaking ill of the dead included GP Dresch, who said: "The BBC Micro - a third rate copy of the Apple II. Colin Robertson agreed, claiming he used a variant of the original BBC Micro right up until 1996, when - and here's one in the eye for... [01 Feb 2002]
Leader: Why a surprise Agenda Setter keeps us on our toes
Leader The results of silicon.com's annual Agenda Setters poll are out and it is a 'power list' this year topped by BBC new media chief Ashley Highfield. The BBC's internet arm can be criticised for the unique way in which it can operate, including... [27 Sep 2004]
Leader: Podcasting over-hyped
Leader And who would want to argue with the BBC, ABC or NBC, who are all now offering podcasts? It's been a good few weeks for podcasting fans, with updates to Apple's iTunes software supporting the phenomenon and predictions that podcasting is going to... [06 Jul 2005]
Stories of the year
News Controversy around the BBC iPlayer was seldom out of the news this year with the government responding to an e-petition complaining about the lack of a version for Macs and Linux on the 10 Downing Street website, signed by more than 16,000 people. [14 Dec 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Ashley Highfield BBC Jonathan Ive Apple Steve Jobs Apple While the 2007 results aren't complete, Blosch presented an early snapshot at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney, Australia yesterday. Rather than deploy new applications, they will capture data... [21 Nov 2007]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News The BBC's online on-demand iPlayer for watching TV on the web had a good Christmas with 3.5 million hits but this sparked a debate about whether ISPs can cope with the increased bandwidth consumption, with speculation that content providers such... [30 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X ¦ Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit ¦ The Brampton Factor: Chinese... [01 Nov 2007]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo Apple launched an updated range of iPods this month with CEO Steve Jobs beamed live to the BBC's Television Centre from the grand unveiling in San Francisco. Apple finally launched its iPhone in the UK this month and - unlike with the earlier iPod... [27 Sep 2007]
