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Pakistan lifts YouTube ban amid speculation
News The BBC reported that Hong Kong-based internet protocol backbone company PCCW, which provides upstream internet access to many of Pakistan's ISPs, had "leaked" details of the ban to ISPs around the world, which had then mistakenly blocked YouTube.
[February 27, 2008, 12:55]
BT wants BBC to pay for iPlayer
News The spokesperson was unaware of whether BT had approached Google, the internet giant that owns YouTube. ZDNet UK understands that YouTube accounts for 30 percent of broadband traffic at peak times. Internet service provider BT has admitted to...
[June 11, 2009, 17:07]
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]
Quality, not Quantity will be the key
Talkback Today, Google and YouTube use Flash technology in a way that is appropriate for short, user-generated clips where quality is not the most pressing priority; but now, with content coming from studios such as the BBC, that method of delivering...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
iPlayer traffic soars over festive period
News In terms of competitors in the UK, YouTube remains far and away the leader for online video, claiming just under nine percent of all UK internet visits in the week ending 5 January — 12 times as many as iPlayer's streaming service.
[January 11, 2008, 8:31]
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
Blog Comment I get the feeling they chose the wrong event, the olympics are widely covered, the BBC will cover all events live and I pressume other networks will do so in their respective countries, highlights too will be all over the news and Youtube!
[July 4, 2008, 18:27]
ComScore stats show rapid UK video growth
Blog The firm said on Monday that Google's sites, including YouTube, are still the most viewed and saw a 58 percent growth in video viewings over the year. For example, a video viewed on iPlayer will likely be much longer and higher-definition than a...
[July 7, 2009, 16:31]
A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1
Blog That's going out Monday afternoon at 4:30pm, and will cover flying eyeballs, videogame music, ultrafast community broadband (with studio guest and ZDNet UK contributor Malcolm Corbett) and YouTube's moneymaking.
[March 8, 2009, 18:20]
Video-site traffic triples in a year
News Figures released by Ellacoya Networks in June last year suggested that YouTube alone accounts for 10 percent of all traffic on the internet worldwide, while the UK ISP PlusNet claimed earlier this month that the BBC's streaming iPlayer service...
[March 27, 2008, 12:31]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog But it's YouTube and iLike and MySpace, and file-sharing, which highlighted the existence of it. Of course, there's more to pick on in Woodward's BBC quote. According to the BBC, the coalition "wants the government to force internet service...
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
News Eight hours of video is loaded onto YouTube every minute. The BBC has come under fire from service providers, such as Tiscali, which claim that its iPlayer online-TV service is becoming a major drain on network bandwidth.
[April 18, 2008, 13:28]
Will Adobe’s ‘Strobe’ light up custom media player development?
Blog Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobe’s quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. As streaming becomes ever more popular and we flock to BBC...
[May 12, 2009, 11:40]
BT holding ransom demands.
Talkback Now they are having to do the same over kit which is 3 years old - its bringing them out in a cold sweat - and all because of content providers such as the BBC / youtube. My take on it is BT is it sees the iplayer as the perfect 'bolt-on', they...
[June 12, 2009, 11:15]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Comment I'm running XP on this, so after stripping it down to the bare bones and killing off the drive indexing, it will happily stream video from the likes of youtube and the BBC i player. I use my Acer One as a portable tool kit, a book of resources...
[March 30, 2009, 8:58]
The Joy Of Timekeeping
Blog Wednesday, I get a call from the BBC World Service, saying would I like to take part in World Business Review - a discussion programme - about the whole Google/YouTube malarkey. WBR is a good 'un, because you get around quarter of an hour on air...
[October 12, 2006, 17:06]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix - An Acid Test
Blog Comment Much quicker this time but jerky playback on the bbc i player and youtube. @J.A. Watson. I took the plunge and installed Linux Mint on my acer one and apart from having to switch to the proprietary "Mad Wi-Fi" driver, every thing works as it should.
[July 1, 2009, 22:07]
My reply to the Scientologists
Blog Then you haven't seen this YouTube clip of John Sweeney, the reporter in question, yelling his brains out at a Scientology acolyte called Tommy Davis. So, anyone see the BBC's Panorama documentary on Scientology last night?
[May 15, 2007, 13:45]
Haha..
Talkback Here's something that sums it up in a song; http://www.youtube.com/watch? AMSTRAD Vs SPECTRUM Vs COMMADORE Vs BBC Very good article, :D Just but a few I have found myself in; Intel Vs AMD PC Vs Mac Windows Vs OS2 Warp Vs LINUX Vs Mac OS
[September 4, 2009, 19:23]
Ericsson: No UK LTE network before end of 2010
News Once an LTE network is up and running, Cunliffe said increasing demand for on-demand video services could mean some local media content caching could be required to keep up with users' thirst for YouTube and BBC iPlayer.
[November 26, 2008, 8:00]
Chrome is simple, but I want features!
Blog Listen-again programmes and things like YouTube work well. Live Radio 3 in the BBC iPlayer stutters and gets into little two-second loops. Chrome is still my default browser, and there are everyday things I can't do so easily in it as in Firefox.
[September 5, 2008, 12:03]
