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BBC web TV revamp: Linux and Apple are in

News 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. The BBC Trust, which governs the Beeb, has amended its proposals for the web TV...

Tags: bbc, tv

[01 Feb 2007]

BBC signs up with iTunes

News A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage   BBC signs up with iTunes   BBC's iPlayer is go   BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row   16...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, apple, itunes

[19 Feb 2008]

BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone

News The BBC's online on-demand TV service iPlayer is now available to use on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. To use iPlayer on the Apple devices, users simply have to access the iPlayer website using their wi-fi connection and then stream their chosen...

Tags: apple, edge, iplayer, bbc

[07 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet Aside from the work to make the download version compatible with Macs, the BBC also has plans to broaden access even further, making it available on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service.

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

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...

Tags: linux, macs, open source, prime minister

[23 Jul 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...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[19 May 2006]

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...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Photos: Apple unveils new iPods

Photo The launch event was screened live to the UK media at BBC TV Centre in London. Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new range of iPods in San Francisco this week. The iPod Touch (pictured) - already covered in fingerprints - is just 8mm thick with a...

Tags: touchscreen, steve jobs, ipod, apple

[06 Sep 2007]

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 content. Meanwhile, back in the present, silicon.com's Apple...

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

<strong>Apple</strong> in iTunes.co.uk cybersquatting row

Apple in iTunes.co.uk cybersquatting row

News Readers may remember Cohen as the teenage dot com millionaire featured in the BBC television series Trouble at the Top. Apple has been accused of bullying tactics in its battle to force a small UK firm to hand over ownership of the iTunes.co.uk web...

[07 Dec 2004]

Creative to make Apple pay over iPod patent

News Sim told the BBC he intends to "pursue aggressively" a US patent the company owns on the navigation of music on MP3 or other audio players. Sim Wong Hoo, head of MP3 player maker Creative, has indicated the company is expecting to earn royalties...

Tags: creative, patent, ipod, apple

[09 Dec 2005]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Ashley Highfield BBC Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jonathan Ive Apple Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote Fortune, which...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

Leader: Our election, your vote against Microsoft?

Leader: Our election, your vote against Microsoft?

Leader As part of the project we asked readers to vote on which of the 50 they would choose for the top spot, which on the official poll was won by Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology at the BBC.

Tags: agenda setters, linus torvalds, steve jobs

[04 Nov 2004]

European software industry gets big thumbs up

News Ashley Highfield BBC Jonathan Ive Apple Steve Jobs Apple The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for...

Tags: europe, awards, intellect, software

[22 Nov 2007]

Jobs trumps Torvalds in 'popular vote'

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...

Tags: jobs, torvalds, gates

[04 Nov 2004]

Oracle users demand better support

News Ashley Highfield BBC Jonathan Ive Apple Steve Jobs Apple Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of...

Tags: fusion, oracle, india, egypt

[10 Dec 2007]

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.

Tags: deadline, downing street, bbc, iplayer

[20 Aug 2007]

Leader: Why a surprise Agenda Setter keeps us on our toes

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...

Tags: highfield, as04, agenda setters

[27 Sep 2004]

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...

Tags: ipod nano, apple, jobs, steve jobs

[05 Oct 2005]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Ashley Highfield BBC Jonathan Ive Apple Steve Jobs Apple Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

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