23 Dec 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - Top Gear was the most-watched TV programme of the year on BBC iPlayer, as the VoD service...New BBC data provides insight into how users of BBC iPlayer, now available on more than 20 different devices, differ per platform. Mac and PS3 users of BBC iPlayer prefer comedy shows such as Mock ...
of future media and technology, said: "We'll be looking to increase the availability of the BBC iPlayer ...
22 Dec 2009
| by Sara Kimberley
LONDON - The BBC Trust has given its provisional approval to the BBC's involvement in Project...0 0 However, it has imposed a number of conditions, including a cap on the BBC's spend on the venture. The joint project, which counts the BBC, BT, Five, ITV, Channel 4 and TalkTalk as partners ...
to watch on-demand services, such as the BBC iPlayer, on their TV sets. The partners plan to form a new ...
21 Dec 2009
| by Alex Brownsell
LONDON - The Department of Health (DoH) has partnered with Microsoft Advertising to develop a
17 Dec 2009
| by Noel Bussey
Microsoft to address allegations that it unlawfully "bundles" its software products. Source ...
15 Dec 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
the most successful year in BBC Red Button's history, with an average of 11 million people pressing red...proponents claim is cheaper for brands and programme-makers to use than red-button. However, new BBC data suggests TV viewers are flocking to red-button in record numbers. The top music content on the BBC Red ...
, Wimbledon, with 7.51 million people pressing red, was the most popular red-button content on the BBC ...
11 Dec 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - The BBC and British Library are teaming up to make millions of TV shows, images and music...0 They will explore ways of integrating access to nearly a million hours of BBC TV and radio ...
. The BBC archive is one of the largest in the world, held in 27 locations across the UK. As well as close ...
, stamps, music, patents, newspapers, photographs and sound recordings. Mark Thompson, BBC director ...
09 Dec 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - Greg Dyke, the former BBC director-general, has launched a scathing attack on the UK TV...the BBC Trust was ill-founded and instead a public service broadcasting regulator should be formed. Labelling the BBC a "500 pound gorilla", Dyke said "quite a lot of us did warn that this system of governance [the BBC Trust] wouldn't work at the time it was created". He added: "The truth is the Trust ...
09 Dec 2009
with the BBC yesterday after it included BBC Worldwide in a list of assets that it was considering selling ...
08 Dec 2009
LONDON - LONDON - Richard Warren, joint chief executive at DLKW, reviews the Microsoft TV...success in repositioning Microsoft as the Darth Vader of the software universe - clandestine, defensive and self-righteous. So any brand strategy from Microsoft that intimates an end to this era of software ...
perception of Microsoft and to humanise the brand. So far, so good. My problem is with what it has started ...
07 Dec 2009
| by Arif Durrani
LONDON - About 40 BBC staff earning more than £150,000 will be forced to justify their salaries...in total savings, of which 1.3bn over four years would be achieved by streamlining. Senior BBC executives ...
. Among the BBC jobs due to come under scrutiny is that of director-general Mark Thompson, who earned 834 ...
,000; Mark Byford, deputy director general, who received 485,000; and Jana Bennett, head of BBC Vision, who ...