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Microsoft to launch online TV service in UK
News Microsoft is to launch an online TV player in the UK next week, initially featuring 350 hours of BBC and ITV television programmes. The ad-supported service, called MSN Video Player, is designed to complement TV channels' existing online video...
[July 30, 2009, 14:59]
BBC iPlayer chalks up 75m downloads
News The BBC iPlayer online, on-demand TV service has hit 75 million in streamed or downloaded programmes since it launched last year. The most requested programmes were The Apprentice and Doctor Who. Programmes shown on BBC Three also made a strong...
[May 21, 2008, 9:00]
Electronic signatures struggling in Europe
News It is hoped that ID card programmes could encourage the use of e-signatures as in many cases they could serve to authenticate identities online, the Commission says. ID card programmes and e-government initiatives are hoped to spur the development...
[March 20, 2006, 15:10]
BBC fixes hack loophole in iPlayer
News In a statement the BBC said it had released a fix for the "unrestricted downloading of streamed TV programmes". Hackers have been exploiting the loophole to download content stripped of its digital-rights management (DRM) restrictions, which...
[March 14, 2008, 8:59]
Microsoft woos developers with new programme
News IBM has boosted its investment in partner programmes, centred on its WebSphere software. The company previously had two programmes to handle this: one, known as the royalty programme, saw ISVs getting software through Microsoft; the other, known as...
[July 12, 2004, 9:40]
IBM announces hosted application plan
News Increasing its focus on the hosted-applications sector, IBM on Wednesday launched programmes designed to support companies that build, sell and market Web-based software to businesses. With its latest initiative, IBM executives said, the company is...
[May 26, 2005, 16:20]
ZDNet Germany: What to see, and not to see at CeBIT
News In the software market, new strategies are being questioned: feature overloaded programmes no longer stand in the limelight as they are pushed aside by concepts like ASP and Microsofts .NET-Initiative.
[March 22, 2001, 15:34]
Analysis: Experts agree Napster cannot be stopped, Part II
News Such esoteric legal wranglings often obscure the real harm programmes such as Napster can do. In a fairytale twist to the whole story, the community spirit engendered by programmes such as Napster may actually have a role to play in reducing piracy.
[March 24, 2000, 12:30]
Lacey's Paper Round
News British TV losing market share in foreign TV programmes business -- The Economist The Economist reports on Britain's poor performance in the international market for television programmes, and suggests that the battle between satellite and...
[December 14, 1998, 10:24]
Online TV blamed for choking broadband networks
News Specifically, the recent surge of interest in the BBC's iPlayer online, on-demand TV service raised this issue following a massive 3.5 million programmes being streamed or downloaded in the two weeks following its marketing launch alone.
[January 29, 2008, 8:42]
Online auction fraudster jailed
News Online auction giant eBay has instituted several new programmes in an attempt to improve user confidence, including using anti-fraud software and implementing a stricter seller review process. In one of the toughest sentences for online auction...
[July 18, 2002, 9:36]
iPlayer enjoys 'wonderful start' to 2008
News More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online, on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day. The programmes were watched by more than one million visitors using the iPlayer during the same...
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
Study: Customers wary of online IDs
News A new Gartner study indicates that despite compulsory sign-up programmes, consumers aren't interested in online identity and authentication accounts -- such as Microsoft's Passport and AOL's Screen Name service -- and won't be anytime soon.
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]
Yahoo! and Sony team up online
News plan to develop online marketing programmes to promote several movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment and to explore ways to integrate music from Sony Music Entertainment. The multiyear agreement calls on the two companies to create a joint Web...
[July 31, 2001, 15:24]
Technical University Delivers New Opportunities for Online Learning
White Papers Astrakhan State Technical University (ASTU) offers professional training programmes to 10,000 graduate and post-graduate students in Astrakhan, Russia. During the last few years, the university has developed online learning resources, but these...
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
NHTCU to launch Get Safe Online campaign
News Next week you will see one of the best programmes for Internet awareness," Lamb said. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) is launching a campaign next week to encourage more consumers and small businesses to transact online by providing clear...
[October 20, 2005, 16:35]
National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online
News The website covers more than 100 topics which form parts of A-level syllabuses and university programmes. The National Archives has placed 500,000 pages of government papers online, accessible free of charge.
[December 4, 2008, 10:51]
Microsoft pledges more funds for online services
News Microsoft's plans include more toolbar programmes with computer makers, and deals with other software makers and internet service providers, as well as a faster rollout of its Live Search cashback programme.
[July 18, 2008, 10:42]
A Year Ago: Internet TV arrives with promise of revolution
News Get free drag and drop programmes via Media Player or RealPlayer Users can drag and drop programmes into a personalised television schedule. The company will provide an interactive online viewing guide to a range of content from independent...
[April 11, 2001, 6:07]
European book market is in Google's sights
News Google has already launched publisher programmes in France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Spain that enable publishers from those countries to submit their titles to the Google Print programme. They are then directed to an area where they can find...
[October 18, 2005, 18:20]
