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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...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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