BlackBerry Fumbles Lead To Red Faces
News The remarks contained a series of expletives about journalists on the BBC's Newsnight programme after they investigated his position in the government's election campaign. to the Newsnight team, on his BlackBerry device, but accidentally sent the...
[February 9, 2005, 11:15]
IT Consultant Fired Over BBC Interview
News A British IT consultant accused by the American movie industry of running a BitTorrent file-sharing hub has been sacked by his employer after appearing on BBC 2's "Newsnight" programme last week to comment on the US Supreme Court ruling on Grokster.
[July 4, 2005, 16:35]
Enigma Machine Sent To Jeremy Paxman
News Jeremy Paxman got a bit of a shock when he opened his post Tuesday: the UK's top TV journalist was sent the stolen Enigma machine in a parcel, which, according to reports, sat for days waiting to be opened on a Newsnight desk.
[October 18, 2000, 9:13]
Privacy Activists Demand Tesco Boycott Over RFID
News Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) launched the campaign on Tuesday, during an item about RFID on the BBC's Newsnight television programme. Consumer privacy advocates have launched a worldwide plan to boycott...
[January 26, 2005, 13:05]
Clarke Pledges To Push On With ID Cards
News We believe we can carry the ID card bill," he told BBC's Newsnight programme. The government's identity card bill, which will not become law ahead of the general election, would be resurrected should Labour win, home secretary Charles Clarke...
[April 6, 2005, 17:35]
Man Charged With Enigma Machine Theft
News Police successfully negotiated the return of the missing device which was sent unannounced to Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman a month ago. A man will appear in court Monday charged with stealing the historic Enigma code machine from a British...
[November 20, 2000, 12:09]
Quality, Not Quantity Will Be The Key
Talkback However, those outside of the UK - who haven’t paid for the privilege - can still easily access the content, when it is available online; perhaps not a disaster when it is an episode of Newsnight, but of huge importance when it is a big Hollywood...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
HDTV For Free - Simple Guide - No Catches
Forum Watch this feature on the BBC Newsnight program as it explains exactly how these companies make their money and how they can afford to give away these items: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40101000/rm/_40101790_ipods_carver22_vi.ram
[January 28, 2007, 16:34]
Treasury Suffers Email Gaffe
News Last February, Alastair Campbell, the Prime Minister's former chief of communications, accidentally sent journalists at Newsnight an email in which he said he wished he could tell them to "fuck off and cover something important".
[January 25, 2006, 16:45]
Jane Wakefield: Town And Country Clash On Unmetered
News It allows BT to go on Newsnight and declare that ISPs are their own worse enemy, and it already has an unmetered wholesale product to offer them. While I have been known to occasionally frequent trendy city wine bars, I am at heart a country girl...
[August 25, 2000, 16:50]
Enigma Thief Will Be Found, Says Bletchley Director
News The Abwehr -- minus three of the rotors -- was eventually recovered after being posted to Newsnight anchorman Jeremy Paxman. The mastermind behind the theft of a WW2 German Enigma encoding machine will be "tracked to the end", according to the head...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Slowly but effectively, the Net is fulfilling its promise of eating through barriers of time and space: when we spend more time talking about a show never broadcast within 4,000 miles of home than we ever do about Newsnight, change is on its way.
[October 22, 2004, 18:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Apparently, pinning the entire company's profitability on the nation's insatiable desire for second-rate footie wasn't the best way forward, even if the pundits line up on Newsnight to say it's all the Government's fault.
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
