Topic: BBC (Broadcaster)

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the public broadcaster in the UK, and is the largest public broadcaster around the world. It currently has four television channels domestically, along with a range of radio and international television stations. It’s biggest tech milestone is the iPlayer, offering a large amount of programming on radio and television for download and streaming.

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By Terence Huynh on August 28th, 2010

BBC to make iPlayer worldwide “within a year”

Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, has revealed that the broadcaster is currently at work in bringing its popular BBC iPlayer to licence payers while they are abroad and also creating a commercial version for worldwide audiences via BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster’s commercial division.

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By Terence Huynh on October 25th, 2009

BBC looking into global iPlayer catchup service

The BBC is said to be looking into offering a global service to its iPlayer service, currently available to the UK market only, with the help of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. However, unlike the iPlayer in the UK, you are likely going to be charged to watch one single episode.

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By Terence Huynh on December 19th, 2008

BBC iPlayer download feature now supported on Linux, Mac machines

200px-BBC.svg The BBC has created a version of the iPlayer, with its download functionality, that works on both Linux and Mac computers. After being allowed to watch the programmes that aired on the BBC online, users on both machines will now be able to download the programmes – however, they will still be encoded with DRM, but different than what is found on the Windows version.

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By Terence Huynh on December 11th, 2008

Google reveals top searches of 2008 – “Obama” takes Google’s top fastest rising crown (in the US)

Following a similar move made by Yahoo, Google has announced that results of its “Fastest Rising” and top search queries from its Zeitgeist; with results from worldwide, the United States and 34 other countries, including New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia (and if you’re scared about your privacy, don’t worry, Google says that no personal data was used).

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By Terence Huynh on April 10th, 2008

UK: BBC iPlayer goes on the Wii

Using the Opera-powered Internet Channel on the Wii, the BBC has announced a version of its popular iPlayer website to the Wii.

It will offer the same content as what you will get on the site, with the 7 day content expiry on content. The BBC promises that additional features will also come in the next few months.

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