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BBC appoints new CIO in tech shake-up
Blog The BBC has appointed Tiffany Hall as a new chief information officer in a shakeup of its broadcast and technology area within the Future Media and Technology division. Hall, who joined the BBC as an IT project manager in 1995, will be responsible...
[October 12, 2009, 11:32]
BBC News website taken down by hosting problems
Blog Comment A couple of minutes after my original post, BBC News editor Steve Hermann posted a blog on the outage: People had problems getting onto the BBC News website a little while ago. We think we've tracked it down to a problem with our network and the...
[June 10, 2009, 14:00]
BBC bought botnet
Blog Comment After all the gaffes in recent years, I've come to the conclusion that the BBC is an EX world-class broadcaster :( This is a piece of totally inexcusable stupidity.
[March 12, 2009, 20:31]
BBC launches iPlayer service for Macs and Linux
News A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. In an exclusive interview with ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com in October, the BBC's head of Future Media and...
[December 17, 2007, 7:50]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog The BBC has said that it wants to be able to protect its TV listings and other service information for the HD channels it is due to start broadcasting on terrestrial Freeview later this year. Under the terms of its licence as a public service...
[September 16, 2009, 18:04]
BBC Wonga
Blog It must be clear to everyone that the latest BBC licence fee agreement is going to be the last one. It would be much fairer on the viewers to pay for the BBC from general taxation (as parts of it are - the World Service lives on postal orders from...
[February 21, 2007, 12:21]
BBC launches open-source video technology
Talkback good for the BBC.it's about time that public money went to open source projects for the people instead of for projects corporations to sell to the people.
[October 6, 2004, 15:58]
BBC hints at digital set-top giveaway
News The BBC is downplaying comments by director general Greg Dyke Thursday that the broadcaster may fund a digital set-top box giveaway. The BBC director general told MPs at the Commons media select committee that the corporation is discussing ways of...
[February 9, 2001, 12:58]
BBC bought botnet
Blog Comment This article is total trash, if Tom has a problem with the BBC maybe he should find something he can report on accurately before taking a pop at them. The BBC used the botnet to demonstrate their danger, by attacking a security company do you not...
[March 13, 2009, 13:05]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment Quite honestly I wish the BBC would just crawl under a rock and die, bunch of over payed pompous self indulged biased unethical lob sided greedy bureaucratic lazy overpriced glutinousness pigs. That should be broke up and sold off to the private...
[September 16, 2009, 20:27]
Experts: BBC's plan to block Net access unworkable
News The BBC's plan to block UK access to its international news site has been greeted with a mixture of criticism and derision from experts. The BBC proposes to make the new international site accessible only to users outside the UK.
[February 1, 2001, 10:05]
News Burst: BBC hits back at criticism over Web plans
News The BBC denied Wednesday that its planned international news site will be paid for with licence fee money. The site will be funded by advertisements, the BBC confirmed today. The BBC claims it was asked by government to provide the new site, which...
[January 31, 2001, 12:25]
BBC Micro designer gets New Year's Honour
News A principal designer of the BBC Micro computer has been recognised for his services to computer science in the Queen's New Year's Honours. His success with the BBC Micro came during a 10-year spell in the R&D department of Acorn, the computer's...
[January 2, 2008, 12:45]
BBC/ITV/C4 Kangaroo scheme 'anti-competitive'
Blog Comment I forgot to mention, I also think BBC, ITV etc.should be responsible for all the additional costs associated with TV on demand online. To so overwhelm the Internet with their content without sharing/bearing the costs is wholly wrong...
[December 3, 2008, 15:18]
BBC claims computer piracy costs UK £3bn a year
News A BBC investigation into copyright violation has found that the UK computer games industry is losing billions of pounds each year through software piracy. We can only address this problem in one way and that is to enforce the copyright law in this...
[April 10, 2001, 13:52]
BBC pledges software-licensing shake-up
News The BBC has pledged it will continue reviewing all its software licensing after removing licences for its electronic-purchasing system from hundreds of staff that were not regularly using them. The BBC has said it has removed 780 licences, costing...
[November 3, 2008, 14:38]
BBC touts free archive
Talkback I AM 59YEARS OLD TURKISH MAN, SINCE 50 YEARS WE ARE ON LINE WITH BBC RADIO TV AND OFCOURSE INTERNET. ALL THE DOCUMENTRIES WE HAVE WATCHED INCLUDING OTHER TV CHANNELS;GERMAN FRENCH BELGIUM, OR WHAT EVER, WERE PRODUCED BY BBC.POLITICS, SCIENCE...
[September 2, 2003, 15:56]
BBC prepares to put TV archive on Web
News The BBC has given a major boost to the Creative Commons movement this week by revealing how it plans to open up its archive of broadcasting material to UK Internet users. The corporation has decided to allow surfers to download, distribute and...
[May 27, 2004, 16:30]
BBC and Apple...
Blog It seems a little odd that the BBC should be so anti-Apple. Perhaps the BBC can take a leaf out of Apple's book and perhaps, instead of restricting access by IP, giving Licence payers an account which they can log into while abroad.
[January 7, 2009, 14:36]
BBC launches open-source video technology
Talkback At least the BBC won't end up as a hostage to either Real or Microsoft. Thank goodness for that.
[October 8, 2004, 14:19]
