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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 like to get access... [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 All non-performance images and video and some performance content can be embedded in social networking sites by users, according to the Beeb. The BBC Glastonbury website received more than 600,000... [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. Keith Little joined the BBC in 2001 and as CIO is in charge of... [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. A loophole which allows those who only... [20 May 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 report, 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]
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Comment As well as overseeing the Beeb's digital content, including the hugely successful iPlayer, Huggers is responsible for delivering the corporation's enterprise and broadcast technology strategy. We've got room for... [18 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.08
Round-Up And who said the Beeb was dumbing down? Rather than getting an expensive video feed for their reporters in the field CNN has opted for a really, really expensive hologram feed of their reporters in the... [07 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]
Beeb spreads the news on YouTube
News YouTube will now play home to six Beeb news channels in Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Urdu from the World Service. Auntie has extended its love-in with YouTube adding an extra six channels to the... [03 Oct 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News Chief among his credits is the launch of the Beeb's iPlayer video-on-demand service, which has been gaining in popularity since its launch on Christmas Day last year. However we'll see how the panel... [16 Sep 2008]
Beeb buys high tech film vault
News The BBC World Service has invested in a high-tech film vault to store more than 6,000 hours of video. The high and low resolution video stored can be accessed by 125 people at once over the ExaStore 2008... [05 Sep 2008]
BBC warned after busting website budget
News The figures emerged following a review of bbc.co.uk by the Beeb's governing body, the BBC Trust, as part of terms in the new Charter and Agreement. Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android ... [30 May 2008]
