Tag: BBC
Opinion: Mobile phone deals aren't call for cash
They’ve always said you don’t get anything for free in this life, but flick towards the back of any of the tabloid newspapers in this country and you’d have to question that view.
FREE Xbox 360, FREE iPod, FREE laptop, FREE Wii, FREE PSP, FREE HDTV, FREE money – and all you have to do is sign up for a FREE mobile phone. In fact, some of the deals even give you a FREE handset with your FREE handset. Please, tell me, where do I sign…
Virtual Worlds Week: Five companies who SHOULD launch virtual worlds
The metaverse is an increasingly crowded place, given the number of startups keen to take a slice of Second Life’s hype and revenues. We’ll be profiling some of the main rivals later this week, as well as taking a look at the hot young guns showing their worlds off at the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe conference.
But what about companies who should be launching their own virtual worlds, but haven’t yet? I’ve had a think, and come up with five firms for whom it’d make sense to go virtual. Starting with…
BBC teams up with Adobe (not Microsoft!) to create Flash-based cross-platform iPlayer
We've already criticised the BBC's iPlayer software for being too restrictive, but now it seems that the BBC Trust's commitment to opening it up might be more than just boardroom talk. The BBC has announced that it's partnered with…
BBC Trust backs high definition channel
The BBC Trust has provisionally backed plans for the BBC to establish a more permanent high definition channel, after the success of the trial version available to satellite and cable viewers. Offering programmes from across the BBC's existing channels, it…
UK Government backs BBC Trust's commitment to make iPlayer available on other platforms (eventually)
The Government has responded to an online petition calling for the BBC to make its iPlayer software, currently available for beta testing – available to more than just Windows XP users, by backing the BBC Trust's commitment to making the…
Opinion: The BBC should launch a DAB-enabled mobile phone with iPlayer functionality
Stuart Dredge writes…
Cor, did you see the story earlier on today, about the BBC getting into gadgets? It’s funding the development of Olinda, a prototype DAB radio with ‘social’ features, including the ability to see when one of your friends has their radio on, and tune into whatever they’re listening to.
BBC / O2 mobile video deal is good news for fans of Doctor Who, Little Britain, The Office…
BBC Worldwide has cut a deal with UK mobile operator O2 to put video clips, wallpapers and ringtones of a bunch of top BBC shows on the O2 Active portal. The shows include Doctor Who, Little Britain, The Office, I’m Alan Partridge, and The League Of Gentlemen.
Opinion: why I think Bluetooth Facebook is a grand (if stalker-ish) idea
Katherine Hannaford writes…
I take back every mean-spirited thing I’ve ever said about students. Yes, even on those nights out in Kingston, Hammersmith, or Clapham, when they’ve filled the gutters, emptying their stomaches of all the Snakebites they can hold, when I’ve resembled a middle-class snob, shaking my head as I pass them soberly (well, vomitless, anyway), muttering under my breath ‘damn students’.
Why am I suddenly revoking my student-hating membership card? Why, because the clever little sods have developed possibly the world’s best Facebook application. Yes, even better than the Karl Pilkington quotes app. We’re talking Bluetooth Facebook. Read on, social-networking fiends…
UK ISPs send BBC warning about possible bandwidth hogging iPlayer
Internet Service Providers in the UK are warning the BBC that the widespread use of its iPlayer service may put too much strain on their networks, and consequently they could place restrictions on their users’ access to it.
Demand for the service certainly seems high, with over 120,000 people signing up to be beta testers in the first week alone.
Yet while it provides great additional exposure for a variety of the BBC’s TV programmes, leading ISPs including BT, Tiscali, and the Carphone Warehouse believe that its soaring popularity will eat heavily into their bandwidth.
Opinion: Don't bring back Tomorrow's World – it was RUBBISH!
Stuart Dredge writes…
The BBC has moved quickly to deny rumours that it’s planning to revive Tomorrow’s World, its science show that ran for 38 years before being mercifully put out of its misery in 2003.
