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March 24, 2008
by Alan Harten
Executives from the BBC have been forced to defend their decision to put up over £30m a year for the broadcasting rights to Formula 1 racing. Bosses at the corporation state that compared to the rights for football coverage. Formula 1 represents good value for money, when trying to attract a young male audience.
The Beeb said yesterday that it had ...
March 22, 2008
by Lin Freestone
Static is planning to launch a PlayJam branded PlayBox to deliver the world's largest interactive games portal via digital terrestrial broadcast for the first time.
PlayJam will be available to digital terrestrial viewers via Static's sister company Electra Entertainment, and requires less than 1% of the bandwidth needed by other middleware solutions.
PlayJam's Playbox will offer the 40 available channels via Freeview, ...
March 21, 2008
by David Allen
It was around eleven months ago when Virgin Media controversially introduced their premium rate technical support line, but very soon it would seem that they are going to drop the charges that apply to these phone lines later on the year in June.
Its funny that the reason why Virgin Media say the premium rate phone was brought in, was to stop ...
by David Allen
The telecom regulators Ofcom have been looking into the BT Openreach operation and how they provide the wholesale service to its customers, that has made Ofcom bring in some new rules on the service that they are providing and to pay out some compensation for any bad services that they provide to their customers.
These new rules will mean compensation will be paid without ...
by David Allen
It will be the same as usual for viewers of the Champions League for the next four years which is exactly the same as it has been for the past few years; this was the final package to complete the television coverage for this competition in a three year deal along with Sky Sports.
But ITV have not got all ...
by David Allen
The communications regulator Ofcom are planning a complete overhaul on the rules which govern the advertising on television, which in reality is going to mean that there will be more adverts on the channels that are allowed to be ad supported.
What will follow is not only the gap in which adverts will be looked at, but also the allowable minutes and how ...
by Alan Harten
People who excessively game and who cannot control their email/text messaging should be included in psychiatry's official guidebook of psychiatric disorders, this according to American Journal of Psychiatry.
In an article in this month's edition of the highly respected scientific journal, Dr Jerald J Block, outlines what he considers to be four distinct symptoms shown by sufferers.
When sufferers cannot ...
by Alan Harten
The Beeb was the runaway winner at this year’s Royal Television Society programme awards, in total; they walked away with 15 ‘gongs’.
The public broadcasting network, dominated the awards proceedings, taking away most of the 27 prestigious awards including two for History of Modern Britain. It was actually BBC2 that won the most acclaim. Including best entertainment programme ...
by Janet Harris
Intel is expanding the distribution of its Classmate PC to US and European retailers - marking its entry into developed economies. The machine is already available in India, Mexico, and Indonesia.
The PC is designed for use by school children and costs just £125 - £175. The company is conducting pilot programs of the PC in schools in the US and ...
March 20, 2008
by David Allen
This has been going around and around for some time, but actually now it would seem that we could be seeing Orange TV finally appear in the UK. This comes as France Telecom the parent company of Orange has passed through the one millionth subscriber for their IPTV service, in their home market place.
For some time Orange TV have been developing way in ...
by David Allen
In another problem with a TV phone in, ITV has had to refund around fifty viewers who took part in an episode of the Peoples Court. Where object of the phone in was to decide who was right, it was one of those things where the writing comes up on the screen encouraging the viewers the vote by calling certain premium ...
by David Allen
It looks like there are some channels that are going after the same business, with C4 and BBC Three going after the younger viewer, it would seem that Five is planning to do the same thing. It is the channel named Five Life which is to get the younger and much brighter look and feel. The first order of business is the make ...
by David Allen
In what can only be described as a surprise move as from next year Formula One will be shown on the BBC. This is a surprise for several reasons, the main one being that ITV the channel who are currently showing the 2008 Grand Prix season were supposed to have the rights until the end of the 2010 season.
This announcement ...
by Alan Harten
British high-speed broadband connections are getting cheaper and faster each year. However, 50% of all UK, subscribers are dissatisfied with the service, they are receiving.
uSwitch, a price comparison company conducted a survey, which concluded that four out of nine ISP’s have considerably less satisfied customers than they had this time last year. They also found that a total ...
March 19, 2008
by Janet Harris
A new survey by 1E has found that many IT managers are unmotivated to reduce power consumption, despite the availability of energy saving technology and the urgent need to cut carbon emissions.
1E, a specialist UK based provider of PC power management software for Windows environments, commissioned the survey of 100 IT managers from large UK organisations.
Although ...
by Rohan Parker
According to motherboard manufacturers, Nvidia had engaged in talks with VIA technologies to see if an acquisition of the company could go ahead, however no agreement was reached due to the substantial price demanded by VIA.
Apparently, three options were put on the table. The first was that Nvidia and VIA enter into a strategic alliance. The second was that Nvidia acquire only ...
by Rohan Parker
AMD has announced that the release of their new B3 stepping Quad-core Phenom 9050 series of CPU's has been set for next week or the one after.
The launch will include the 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150 modules, however the top-end module, the 9850 has been mildly downgraded to reach a core frequency of 2.5GHz rather than the ...
by Rohan Parker
Yesterday saw the launch date for DirecTV 11 satellite come and go; without any launch at all. One day prior to the launch, Sea Launch, the sea-based mobile launching system company in charge of the launch, put a hold on operations, stating that there was an issue that required further study and analysis of collected data before the launch ...
by David Allen
It seems that BT Wholesale have been trailing a new device called the iPlate and surprisingly it has nothing to do with Apple either. This device could speed up internet connection by just adding it to your home network.
It works by reducing the electrical interference from other household devices like the set top boxes, television, and of course the famous interferers ...
by David Allen
It’s no secret that the runaway success of the iPlayer has not pleased any of the internet service providers; this success has really done a lot to increase the amount of people that are actually watching TV through their broadband connection or maybe just planted the seed of interest. It is this interest that could create a huge amount of traffic ...
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Executives from the BBC have been forced to defend their decision to put up over £30m a year for the broadcasting rights to Formula 1 racing. Bosses at the corporation state that compared to the rights for football coverage. Formula 1 represents good value for money, when trying to attract a young male audience.
The Beeb said yesterday that it had ...
It was around eleven months ago when Virgin Media controversially introduced their premium rate technical support line, but very soon it would seem that they are going to drop the charges that apply to these phone lines later on the year in June.
Its funny that the reason why Virgin Media say the premium rate phone was brought in, was to stop ...
A new survey by 1E has found that many IT managers are unmotivated to reduce power consumption, despite the availability of energy saving technology and the urgent need to cut carbon emissions.
1E, a specialist UK based provider of PC power management software for Windows environments, commissioned the survey of 100 IT managers from large UK organisations.
Although ...
