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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]
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. If you look at iPlayer from a distance,... [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. So whenever people come and... [18 Feb 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]
Five tech predictions for 2009
Comment You may have no TV, but a laptop on which you don't watch the Beeb's programming, yet you're still liable to buy a TV licence. The answer is obvious to me, if likely quite painful for a lot of people: the... [23 Dec 2008]
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 the internet from... [20 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.08
Round-Up And who said the Beeb was dumbing down? As the election progressed, the Round-Up got its blow by blow micro-news from the BBC's live blog that went all web 2.0 with Twitter posts from Joe Public. 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]
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]
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. According to the BBC, its Global News unit, which includes the BBC World Service, BBC... [03 Oct 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News Almost a year after its beta launch, the BBC has added more functionality and improved the interface of the successful web TV service. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to... [25 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment Two things in particular this week have been getting silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards in despair or admiration; the first being the claim the UK needs skilled migrants to plug the skills gap, and the second being the... [05 Jun 2008]
BBC beds down with MySpaceTV
News Simon Danker, director of digital media for BBC Worldwide said the partnership continues the Beeb's strategy of putting content where audiences are increasingly spending time. Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ... [24 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, is responsible for dragging the Beeb into the digital age through initiatives such as the iPlayer. [30 Oct 2007]
