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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the red corner, Rupert Murdoch and his band of merry Sky men: in the blue corner, British Satellite Broadcasting. Sky ignores the official wishes of the European broadcasters and sets up shop transmitting good old fashioned PAL format from its...
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
Sky May Shake Up UK Broadband Market
News If Sky does give its satellite TV customers a broadband connection, it would then be able to offer much better interactive services, including gaming and gambling. As well as buying an existing broadband ISP, Sky is rumoured to be considering...
[October 13, 2005, 18:15]
Sky Giving Away Digital TV With Net Access
News Sky is unashamedly shoving its Skydigital service as hard as it can and makes no apologies to the gang of free ISPs entering the market: "We obviously want a digital box in every UK home" said a Sky spokeswoman.
[May 5, 1999, 14:14]
News Corp Seeks Investor In Satellite Operation
News News Corp is looking to combine Star TV, Foxtel in Australia, its 40 percent stake in British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) and its 35 percent stake in Sky Latin America, the source said. News Corp is talking to several companies, including Yahoo...
[March 1, 2000, 13:36]
Sky Launches Interactive TV Betting
News The service, which operates over Sky's standard digital set-top box, sends transaction information to content providers over a standard telephone line, information is sent to the viewer's TV through Sky's standard digital satellite signal.
[December 12, 2000, 16:22]
Sky Shares Skyrocket On Online Strategy
News British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) shares soared nearly 300 points after it announced its plan to sink £250m into the Internet and pursue ADSL and mobile-phone deals. Sky became the latest traditional media company to affirm the appeal of e...
[February 10, 2000, 9:00]
Is There A Future For Digital Video Recorders?
News In the UK, Sky offers a similar service with its Sky Plus integrated set top box and DVR. The Yankee Group's report includes standalone DVRs, along with DVR features built into cable set-top boxes, consumer-electronics devices and satellite TV set...
[October 3, 2002, 8:54]
Eye In The Sky
Downloads Eye in the Sky screensaver contains 43 detailed satellite images of Earth. The following images are included: Antarctica, Argentina, Asian dust cloud over Korea and Japan, Australia, Bahamas, Bosporus Straits - Turkey, Central America, Coral Atolls...
[April 22, 2006, 18:01]
IPass Gets Onboard With Train Wi-Fi
Talkback Eye-In-The-Sky Links Cell to Cell, concept pioneers global GSM Connectivity and GPS Satellite Telematics Security Monitoring in High Seas, In-Flight, and Fast Trains. Developed by TriaGnosys GmbH, Wessling, the GPRS-SMS Gateway Platform enables...
[September 23, 2004, 5:23]
MyFreeWeather
Downloads MyFreeWeather allows you to view the sky in any city in the world and track local weather. Imagine looking at the current sky in your local area, Florida, Hawaii, Paris, Vegas, Bahamas. Watch the moving storm & weather patterns via Satellite & Radar.
[September 25, 2008, 4:46]
Click Clock
Downloads Animated weather radar & satellite, local temperature in tray, local weather, Internet clock sync, sun and moon rise and set times, animated moon phases, planet positions in the sky, eclipses, equinox/solstice, meteors, month calendar with moon...
[February 22, 2008, 22:31]
BSkyB To Sell Discounted No-frills Broadband
News Precise details of the tie-up are not yet available, but it appears that Sky's customers will be offered the no-frills product, called BT Broadband, at a discount. This agreement will ensure that Sky subscribers have access to a highly competitive...
[July 31, 2002, 12:51]
BT And Sky Mull Deal To Deliver TV Via ADSL
News A BT spokesman would not confirm whether the telco is close to a deal with Sky. A tie-up between such well-known brands as Sky and BT would undoubtedly increase the intense battle between the telco and its cable rivals.
[September 5, 2000, 7:46]
BSkyB To Buy Amstrad For £125m
News The BSkyB partnership dates back to the launch of Sky in 1989, when Amstrad made all the set-top boxes and satellite dishes. Broadcaster BSkyB is buying Amstrad, the venerable computing name that once made up to a quarter of the European PC...
[July 31, 2007, 13:15]
Thursday
Blog Which means, I calculate, that a fully equipped household now has seven ways to receive Radio 4 -- analogue FM, long wave, Sky, cable, streamed Internet, DAB radio and digital terrestrial TV. A regulator worth its salt would include public access...
[July 5, 2002, 15:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News In fact, now that Sky is about to carry all the BBC radio stations on its digital satellite, I'm not sure that there's any reason to buy a home DAB tuner. But not as frustrating as DAB digital radio: while Sky and On are at least trying to get...
[October 29, 1999, 18:16]
E-learning Project Hooks School Kids Up To The Stars
News The satellite finds roughly where it is in the sky in a few seconds. Brian Schmidt, a fellow at the research school of astronomy and astrophysics at Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories told ZDNet Australia about the collaboration with the...
[May 17, 2002, 8:54]
Balloon Goes Up For Rural Broadband
News Initially using test platforms tethered at an altitude of just 300 metres, the project will investigate not only the technical issues of providing a two-way high speed broadband link from the sky, but also the business models needed to turn it...
[January 21, 2004, 9:15]
ONdigital ITV Merger Fatally Flawed
News Curry predicts that far from becoming a Sky rival ITV Digital could partner with the media giant in the future. In the past ITV has stayed off Sky in order to support the set-top box business. He believes such a business was always likely to be an...
[April 27, 2001, 17:00]
Brits Turned-on By Digital TV Demos
News Those who admitted to completely rejecting digital TV were excluded from the study, as were those who admitted that Sky digital would be their provider of choice. All participants were given a one and a half hour demonstration of Sky digital, NTL...
[October 10, 2001, 17:41]
