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BBC News website taken down by hosting problems
Blog The BBC's news website suffered a 20-minute outage early on Wednesday afternoon, due to problems at a London hosting centre. A BBC spokesperson told ZDNet UK that the site had been "having technical problems this morning" due to "network problems...
[June 10, 2009, 13:08]
BBC News website taken down by hosting problems
Blog Comment People had problems getting onto the BBC News website a little while ago. A couple of minutes after my original post, BBC News editor Steve Hermann posted a blog on the outage: We think we've tracked it down to a problem with our network and the...
[June 10, 2009, 14:00]
News sites cope with record demand
Talkback Also while BBC news website was ok (but a little slow) all the streaming of live video and audio from Five Live was almost impossible. We found that BskyB was VERY slow and even reported back "server to busy" responses to us.
[July 8, 2005, 12:38]
Mobile companies tune in to TV's potential
Talkback Nokia's right, I watch, sometimes, the news on the bbc.co.uk website. I could do this on my mobile, but watch a film, no. Maybe a documentary or a half an hour epise of a sitcom or 3-part drama -- on the way home on the train/bus (not while driving).
[December 14, 2004, 19:55]
Doctor Who News
Downloads Doctor Who News gets the latest news from the UK BBC's Doctor Who Website. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[June 27, 2007, 12:39]
iNews Science
Downloads It provides news feeds of the Science sections from CNN, ABC News, BBC UK, USA Today, NY Times, Fox News, AP, MSNBC, CBS, Google, and Reuters. It features get latest news of all news providers on one screen, offline reading, save the news by...
[September 2, 2009, 11:29]
iNews Technologies
Downloads By default it provides news feeds of the technology sections from CNN, ABC News, BBC UK, USA Today, NY Times, Fox News, AP, MSNBC, CBS, Yahoo, Google, and Reuters. It features offline reading, save the news by flagging it, email the news, enable or...
[September 6, 2009, 5:04]
Resco News for S60 3rd Edition
Downloads BBC? Flickr is a popular photo sharing website allowing for photo tagging.Feed search works like Google: You specify a phrase and get a list of matching feeds. Resco News your personal newspaper and blog readerDo you want to read your favorite blog?
[March 9, 2007, 6:00]
Firefox marches on
Blog Comment The JobCentreplus website that was reported in 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4115806.stm) as not working for Firefox, still doesn't work correctly. There are a few website that aren't FF friendly and require that IE be fired up, so...
[April 18, 2007, 16:17]
BBC One and Two head to the web
News Viewers will be able to view the 'simulcasts' by accessing the homepages for each channel on the BBC website. Other BBC channels, including BBC Three, BBC Four and BBC News, have been available in simulcast form for some time, along with various...
[November 21, 2008, 13:32]
ZDNet UK launches bespoke mobile service
News A number of other well-known brands already use Mobizines, including BBC News, GQ and Time Out. ZDNet.co.uk has launched a dedicated mobile version of our website using Mobizines. The most important stories created by ZDNet UK's London-based team...
[December 13, 2006, 10:10]
Government unveils 'grooming laws'
News Home Office minister Hilary Benn told the BBC he did not "underestimate the difficulties" of bringing such a prosecution. The government is spending £1m promoting its www.thinkuknow.co.uk website, which offers help and advice on protecting children...
[January 30, 2003, 8:41]
iPlayer traffic soars over festive period
News The BBC's iPlayer website saw a 14-fold increase in traffic during the festive period. In an exclusive interview with ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com, Ashley Highfield, the head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology, suggested a download...
[January 11, 2008, 8:31]
BBC releases iPlayer beta
News In addition, an e-petition posted on the 10 Downing Street website, asking the prime minister to instruct the BBC to make the iPlayer cross-platform, has clocked up almost 12,500 signatures so far. The BBC's online, on-demand TV iPlayer was...
[July 30, 2007, 8:35]
Lords call for parliament to get more online
News The committee has already invited the BBC and the House of Lords administration to see how they can work together on the BBC's forthcoming Democracy Live website. The report says parliament does well at using its website to inform people, but needs...
[July 17, 2009, 15:49]
SpinVox uses humans for voice-to-text conversion
News The voice-to-text firm Spinvox uses people, as well as automated systems, to transcribe messages in call centres in South Africa and the Philippines, the BBC has reported. The BBC said it had received its information from a source inside SpinVox...
[July 23, 2009, 16:41]
Over 10,000 sign BBC iPlayer petition
News More than 10,000 people have signed an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website urging the BBC to make its iPlayer available to non-Windows users. At the time of writing, 10,006 people had signed the petition calling for the prime minister to...
[July 24, 2007, 8:21]
Phishing attack hits thousands of Hotmail accounts
News The second list was seen by the BBC as well as by Neowin.com, the IT community website that initially reported the possible phishing breach. Microsoft has confirmed that the login credentials for several thousand Hotmail email accounts have been...
[October 6, 2009, 13:09]
Report: BBC, Google discussing international iPlayer
News According to media reports, BBC director general Mark Thomson is in negotiations with Google chief executive Eric Schmidt about the possibility of hosting long-form BBC content on Google-owned video website, YouTube.
[June 1, 2009, 9:39]
iPlayer petition wins 16,000 signatures
News More than 16,000 people have now signed an e-petition protesting about the way the BBC has rolled out its on-demand TV service, iPlayer. The petition urges the prime minister to request the BBC develops an iPlayer for non-Windows platforms.
[August 21, 2007, 8:23]
