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Online TV blamed for choking broadband networks
News BT told silicon.com that the full launch of iPlayer hasn't had any impact on the service its customers receive. Last August, a Tiscali spokeswoman told silicon.com: "We don't believe that the potential for it to cause congestion is being properly...
[January 29, 2008, 8:42]
Orange may adopt Kangaroo online TV tech
News An Orange spokesman confirmed to ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com, that the French-owned company is in talks with the companies that formed the joint venture to acquire the technology behind Kangaroo.
[April 7, 2009, 9:01]
BBC iPlayer heads to set-top boxes
News A spokesman for BT told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com that the three partners hope the platform "will grow and become a, if not the, de facto standard" for on-demand web TV services. It is an open environment," she told silicon.com.
[December 12, 2008, 13:21]
PCs, mobiles and PDAs need 'online' TV licence
News But TVL told Silicon.com that the definition of a "television receiver" is contained in regulation nine of the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 and covers any apparatus used for the purpose of receiving - by wireless...
[June 13, 2006, 16:20]
Blodget: Microsoft needs a Yahoo!
News And, as a result of some of his freewheeling predictions during his Thursday morning keynote address at the Silicon Alley 2000 conference, some stocks could start swaying. They own TV and the online service for interactive TV.
[March 3, 2000, 9:45]
iPlayer for Linux wins approval of open sourcers
News OSC president Mark Taylor told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com: "We think it's a step in the right direction. In a recent interview with silicon.com, Ashley Highfield, head of the BBC's future media and technology unit, was unable to commit...
[December 18, 2007, 7:51]
NTL resignation fuels Telewest merger rumours
News Pavitt told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com today: "We have taken IT in NTL from something that was very unconsolidated, inefficient and expensive to something that is above average in all those areas.
[December 20, 2004, 15:10]
Convergence to dominate CES
News Executives from Europe, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Hollywood will descend on CES to talk about how they plan to make money from convergence - the long-promised coming together of entertainment and computing that's finally a reality.
[January 4, 2006, 11:05]
Femtocells may solve operators' 3G woes
News Mark Heath, co-author of the report and director of research at Sound Partners Research, told silicon.com: "The idea of femtocells is a really clever way to avoid needing to make these big 3G networks more dense, to provide the necessary quality...
[November 26, 2007, 14:56]
The messaging diplomats: Can they bring peace?
News For example, Saraswat, a computer science Ph.D.who worked at Silicon Valley's famed Xerox PARC research centre for nine years before joining AT&T, foresees the day when a real-time digital communications technology will allow people to share their...
[August 3, 1999, 13:19]
Facebook founder voted top man in tech
News Zuckerberg topped the eighth annual Agenda Setters poll by ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com. Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com, said it has been fascinating to watch the rapid changes that have taken place in the past year.
[October 17, 2007, 16:28]
The Day Ahead: Diversification pays off for Go2Net
News Go2Net is a portal hybrid that offers popular sites such as Silicon Investor, but also licenses out the technology that makes the sites tick. The company's Authorise.Net payment processing service picked up 12,000 merchants during the period...
[July 18, 2000, 13:01]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Granted, Vulcan Ventures' ability to fund sustainable businesses isn't necessarily any worse than those of many Silicon Valley venture firms, whose dot-com disasters range from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed Excite@Home to Hummer Winblad...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog It is in this frame of mind that I make my rearranged meeting with CSR - Cambridge Silicon Radio, as was- and try to focus on Bluetooth. It does indeed do IP, but purely in the service of delivering mobile TV - still, it's a good story.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
'3G iPhone' speculation at fever pitch
News Peter Cunningham, senior analyst at analyst house Canalys, told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com: "I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the 3G iPhone. Already speaking as if the second coming of iPhone has occurred, Dr Windsor Holden, principal...
[June 6, 2008, 9:30]
Kangaroo technology may bounce back
News Speaking to ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com, an ITV spokeswoman said the three broadcasters will speak to the Competition Commission about how the prohibition will be enforced. I can't believe that's going to be the case," he told silicon.com.
[February 9, 2009, 8:06]
BBC launches iPlayer service for Macs and Linux
News In an exclusive interview with ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com in October, the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield, said he couldn't promise a download version would be developed for other non-Windows platforms.
[December 17, 2007, 7:50]
Project Kangaroo leaps into alpha testing
News A spokesman for the Kangaroo project confirmed to ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com, that alpha testing will commence in December with a closed beta trial due to start in the January. An ITV spokeswoman told silicon.com that the broadcaster has...
[November 19, 2008, 14:30]
Virgin starts 200Mbps broadband trials
News Fogg, principal analyst at Forrester Research, told ZDNet UK's sister site silicon.com that while he doesn't believe Virgin will be offering a commercial 200Mbps service anytime soon, the company is nevertheless firing "a shot across the bows" of...
[May 11, 2009, 9:35]
iPlayer enjoys 'wonderful start' to 2008
News In an exclusive interview with sister site silicon.com, Ashley Highfield discussed the iPlayer, DRM and more. More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online, on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after...
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
