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Beeb.com Puts On Christmas Wrappings
News The BBC's commercial online arm, beeb.com, has relaunched with a new look for the Christmas season, focusing, not surprisingly, on shopping. With the headline "Your starting point for shopping on the Web", the site lays out what it promises are...
[November 25, 1999, 12:01]
BBC Internet Services Labelled Anti-competitive
News Both Beeb.com and Freebeeb are part of BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. BIPA member and managing director of ISP LineOne Ajay Chowdhury believes the BBC's commercial site Beeb.com should not automatically get access to BBC shows.
[November 24, 1999, 14:22]
News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks Hail New E-minister
News The Schmoozer understands the Daleks won't be making an appearance -- the Beeb sold them all off to nouveau-riche dot-com entrepreneurs in 1999. Microsoft-funded Slate.com doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, though.
[June 15, 2001, 16:12]
News Burst: Marks & Spencer Links With Portals, Interactive TV
News The company, which has also recently launched a rare series of television advertisements promoting its shops, announced Wednesday it has secured distribution arrangements with two online portals, Microsoft's MSN UK and the BBC's beeb.com, and with...
[September 7, 2000, 9:40]
Spamhaus Hit With $11m Judgement
Talkback At various times I have lost emails for extended periods from (among others) hotmail, yahoo, Oxford University and beeb.com. At best, Spamhous provides a blunt instrument for dealing with spam. If what they determine to be "spam" passes through a...
[September 19, 2006, 12:29]
BBC Responds To Critics Of New "Freebeeb" Net Access
News Responding to the criticism, director of BBC Web site beeb.com and Freebeeb Rupert Miles denies the balance between commercial and public services was being compromised by the new service. BIPA is concerned the launch of Freebeeb -- the BBC's free...
[September 2, 1999, 15:00]
Boom Time For British Tech?
Blog Anne Glover, who the Beeb describes as a "leading venture capitalist" claims that funding in the UK has never been easier to come by bar perhaps during the short-lived dot com boom. The BBC is running an interesting story from a venture capitalist...
[September 5, 2007, 16:57]
'Kissing Babies' In Public
Talkback Take a look at the recent Groklaw article that's prompted this interview (http://tinyurl.com/297z8t) and see it you can ignore the stink emanating from the Beeb's Future Media and Highfield: "I am a deep lover of Macs.
[October 31, 2007, 13:01]
Five Years Ago: The Beeb Aims To Make Web Profit
News Developed alongside ICL, the Beeb, as the site will be called, will consist of a number of channels including The Score - a sports site, a Top Gear site and a Radio Times-branded film and TV guide. First published 30 May, 1997.
[May 30, 2002, 7:01]
The Beeb Aims To Make Web Profit
News Developed alongside ICL, the Beeb, as the site will be called, will consist of a number of channels including The Score - a sports site, a Top Gear site and a Radio Times-branded film and TV guide. The BBC will announce eight Web channels next week...
[May 30, 1997, 16:13]
Beeb Springs Web Service Surprise
News The Web site will be running first, with content based on current TV and radio programmes. The BBC will provide all editorial content free, but extra features may carry a charge later, it said. The service will be based on ICL hardware and software.
[September 23, 1996, 16:07]
BBC's Digital Supremo Quits
Blog Ashley Highfield, champion Birtspeaker and outgoing (now in multiple ways) chief of "future media and technology" for the Beeb, is heading off to the realms of Project Kangaroo. Kangaroo is basically an aggregated platform for programmes from the...
[April 14, 2008, 9:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I pop over to the Beeb to address the nation: nation appears not to notice. Now here's a very snazzy place that Guy Kewney pointed out to me -- www.imagineradio.com. This week, the subject is the future of defence technology (I once worked for...
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No so terrific is the way in which the Beeb carefully put the TubbyFrighteners on anyone who dared to put images of the psychedelia-for-toddlers show on the Web previously. Tellytubbies on the Web! Terrific!
[April 25, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I pop over to the Beeb to address the nation: nation appears not to notice. Now here's a very snazzy place that Guy Kewney pointed out to me -- www.imagineradio.com. This week, the subject is the future of defence technology (I once worked for...
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News No so terrific is the way in which the Beeb carefully put the TubbyFrighteners on anyone who dared to put images of the psychedelia-for-toddlers show on the Web previously. Tellytubbies on the Web! Terrific!
[April 25, 1998, 6:00]
The Week In Review: Lair Of The SQL Worm
News The Beeb accidentally ploughed fans of The Archers radio drama with the a mass-mailing virus. The aftershocks of the SQL Slammer worm are still being felt. Among the more interesting stories to come out of the continuing examination of the two-week...
[February 7, 2003, 15:55]
BBC Net Giveaways Anti-competitive, Say Critics
News Critics of the BBC say not charging for its online news services to mobile phone operators and Internet portals is unfair and anti-competitive. The criticism has prompted the office of fair trading (OFT) to launch an inquiry into the alleged abuse...
[July 17, 2000, 11:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He is a good and knowledgeable chap, and were the Beeb to byline their pieces more often I would have taken a more equitable approach. Monday 24/5/2004She was young, she was inexperienced and she was shy -- and she'd been told to do something very...
[May 28, 2004, 18:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This comes as something of a shock to the Israeli researchers who are trying this out, but anyone who has a Beeb in their nerdy past will be familiar with the soft, breathy crackling the machine used to make as it churned through its calculations.
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
