Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
23 November 2013

Time to Fight Against a DRM'd Web - by Forking It

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At the beginning of the year, I wrote abut a shameful move by the BBC to support adding DRM to HTML to control the playback of video cont...
10 March 2013

BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger

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The Web is one of the most dramatic demonstrations of the power of openness, alongside free software, which not coincidentally runs most ...
04 March 2011

Malware at the Heart of the BBC's Decline

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Anyone who has been following me on Twitter or identi.ca will have noticed that I have a bee in my bonnet - actually, make that a Beeb in ...
10 September 2010

Project Canvas Will be *Linux* Based

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I've been pretty sceptical - and critical - of the BBC's TV over IP efforts, including Project Canvas : Project Canvas is a proposed...
14 June 2010

Shame on Ofcom, Double Shame on the BBC

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Readers with good memories may recall a little kerfuffle over an Ofcom consultation to slap DRM on the BBC's HD service: if this scheme ...
01 April 2010

Last Chance to Save BBC from DRM

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Six months ago, I wrote about a shabby attempt to slip through a major change at the BBC that would entail adding DRM to its HDTV output. Th...
08 January 2010

Help Stop EU Software Patents – Again

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A few years back, there was a fierce battle between those wishing to lock down software with patents, and those who wanted to keep copyright...
07 September 2009

Lies, Damned Lies and Media Industry Numbers

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A few months back, I wrote about how some figures quoted in the "Copycats" report produced by University College London's CIB...
13 March 2009

BBC Team Exposes...its Windows-centricity (Again)

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There's something of a brouhaha over this report from the BBC... On Open Enterprise blog .
16 February 2009

BBC and Microsoft: Joined at the Hip?

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Not another one? Microsoft's UK online services group GM Sharon Baylay is becoming the BBC's director of marketing, comms and audie...
23 December 2008

In Praise of Whingeing

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One of the central lessons to be learned from free software is that individuals can make a difference. Not many would have given Richard Sta...
16 December 2008

Abandon Hope, All Ye (IE) Users

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Interesting that when the BBC dares to carry a negative story about Microsoft, it immediately becomes the most-read and most-emailed - perh...
11 December 2008

Open Me Kangaroo Up, Sport

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Having had their plan to combine their broadband TV services kyboshed by the Competition Commmission, the BBC and ITV today said they plan t...
09 December 2008

*Not* the Facebook Virus

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Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details. '...
26 November 2008

The BBC Blows it Again

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More incisive reporting from the BBC - not. This time, it concerns the move to extend performers' copyright from 50 to 70 years. The ...
21 November 2008

BBC: No Comment is Good Comment

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Graham Steel has asked me what I think about this : BBC shows including EastEnders, Heroes and Never Mind The Buzzcocks will be available t...
20 November 2008

"Open University" Becomes "Closed University"

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Now that Microsoft has finished taking over the BBC, it seems it's moving on to new prey : The Open University has appointed a Microsof...
19 November 2008

(Sigh): Another BBC Ad for Microsoft

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I suppose I should expect this now: In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from ...
10 November 2008

Ashley Highfield Goes to...Guess Where?

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Microsoft . At least it's symmetric: Erik Huggers goes from Microsoft to the BBC, and Highfield goes from the BBC to Microsoft, via Kang...
05 November 2008

Why is the BBC Running Microsoft Ads?

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I wrote below about Microsoft's rather desperate BizSpark. It all seemed pretty transparent to me. But not to the BBC, apparently, wh...