Whilst we digest the news that staff from BBC Sport Website and New Media will be working “up Norf’”, have a look at the new…
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Director General Mark Thompson has just announced to BBC staff that BBC New Media will be moving to a new media complex in Manchester in…
Comments closedAccording to The Register, Lycos have taken their anti-spam screensaver off-line. From the other details that emerged, it looks like the screensaver was developed by…
Comments closedUSB/IP project are working on a protocol to enable the mapping of USB devices over a network. There are loads of great opportunities this provides:…
2 CommentsNetcraft are reporting that the Lycos Screensaver I wrote about a few days ago has started to bring down servers as intended (and expected). So,…
2 CommentsAccording to the BBC, the Chinese government is blocking access to all versions of Google News other than the Chinese version. (As you will know,…
2 CommentsAs regulars will know, I’m not afraid of rubbing up my colleagues in BBC News Interactive AV the wrong way… (cough cough) So, with that…
Comments closedLycos have released a screensaver that will flood the urls used by spammers to sell their wares. Effectively what Lycos are setting up here is…
Comments closed(Direct link to the paper in pdf) Or as my colleague Jo Twist @ BBC is putting it, “could the eBay trust model be adapted…
Comments closedMy neighbour (who I?ll call Tom) asked me whether I had Digital TV – he didn?t know anything about it and wanted to know more about it. And few weeks ago, I spent a couple of days with my parents in the family home ? despite owning a Freeview box, they don?t seem to use it at all.
With only 50% of UK homes having Digital TV, these two events started to make me think about what is wrong with Digital TV and why people simply aren?t getting it.
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