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April 24, 2008
by David Allen
It would seem that despite live coverage of Formula One being quickly taken away from ITV and given to the BBC for a price, the team that is behind the production of ITV F1, North One, are having talks with the BBC with a view to producing the programme when it moves channels in 2009.
The team, who are fresh from their BAFTA winning evening out, would be the ...
by David Allen
For the first time since 1994 Channel Four made a loss.
This could reflect the problems that hit the channel with Big Brother and the Phone-in troubles, which have also affected some of the other channels too. But the loss of revenue must have has an impact on results for 2007!
This loss has fast forwarded the question of public funding for the channel. There is talk that the ...
by David Allen
As Video on Demand increases, the internet could soon become a primary source for many users' entertainment needs. This sort of traffic could not have been predicted several years ago and so the way that the whole network has been set up will probably need to change.
The main concern coming from the internet service providers is increased traffic. There have been many calls for the likes of the ...
by David Allen
In order to make the whole industry transparent, the regulator Ofcom wanted to introduce a voluntary code of practice for all ISP’s. This has come about through the problems that have occurred over the advertised broadband connection speeds and pricing structures.
Ofcom had written to all of the big six ISP’s explaining that there is a need for the entire industry to get their act together and explain ...
by Rohan Parker
Reports from within the industry are pointing to HP having recently ordered 100,000 C7-M ULV processors from VIA, which comes on the back of VIA announcing that they would be supplying processors for the new 2133 Mini-Note PC from HP.
Speculation has arisen that hardware manufacturers have started to look to VIA to supply processors for both ultra mobile ...
April 23, 2008
by David Allen
It seemed to be such a great idea, placing the much awaited fibre optic network into the nation’s sewers. This would mean that there would be little disruption to the road network and at the same time install the high speed internet network in quick time.
However as with all good ideas, that seem to be the answer, but when more and more people think about it this is ...
by David Allen
We knew that ITV could not wait much longer to capitalise on what the BBC and Channel Four have done, and that is making their archives available to anyone to view through the Apple iTunes store.
On demand TV is growing so fast that channels simply cannot afford to ignore this platform any more. ITV will initially be providing up to two hundred and sixty hours of archived programmes, ...
by David Allen
Every now and then the BBC splashes out on a make over for their daily news programmes.
This time it was a little different as they have gone for a total redesign and branding for the newly renamed BBC News and BBC World News bringing the channels and bulletins into a more corporate look.
However since the changes, which cost the BBC £550,000, there has been a viewer uprising ...
by David Allen
While online shopping and advertising is taking a slice out of the mainstream, so too is credit card fraud, in fact despite all of the efforts made by the industry and card holders, the extent of online credit card fraud is at record levels.
This type of fraud is what the industry has named as “Card not present” which is what most sales over the internet are.
The purchaser ...
April 22, 2008
by David Allen
It would appear that there are millions of UK broadband customers who could be paying as much as two hundred pounds per year more than they expected.
This is due to the charges that some companies are using, which are hidden in the small print of contracts.
The main reasons for accumulating an additional charge is paying by cheque instead of setting up a direct debit, paying the bill late ...
by David Allen
With BSkyB looking as if they will have no option but the sell their 17.9% in ITV, selling the stake for a reasonable price could still be a serious problem for BSkyB.
But instead of there being a total slump in the share price, there are in fact some well heeled suitors lining up to take the stake off their hands.
The favourites to buy the stake are the ...
by David Allen
With the digital switchover already taking place in the UK there are reports that some people are being taken advantage off by some criminals who are going around and cold calling on vulnerable people's doorsteps.
The whole switchover process is not due to be completed until 2012, which in affect is giving those criminals around four years to follow the switchover as makes its way around the country.
It's not ...
by David Allen
In the face of some stiff competition from the main internet service providers in the UK, Beeb.com the internet provider which has been going for over nine years now, has announced that it is closing down on the 30th June this year.
The service is operated by the BBC’s commercial division, BBC Worldwide and had offered web hosting, dial up, broadband and even a free web based email service, ...
by David Allen
There is a serious row brewing between Chelsea Football Club and Sky Sports. At this time of the season there are often a large amount of games that need to be played in a short period of time.
Sometimes these games either clash with each other or they are vital to the team’s season and so for the fans there is a viewing clash.
This is what happened with ...
April 21, 2008
by Janet Harris
Hitachi has announced the Ultrastar 15K450, which it claims will be the highest capacity 15,000 RPM HDD on the market.
The 450GB enterprise-class hard drive, which features Hitachi's perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, will be available to resellers this quarter in two versions - 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) interface.
Customers will have to ...
by David Allen
The commercial side of the BBC could be looking to form a consortium with a view to bid for the US listed Virgin Media Group.
Virgin Media has become a very diverse group of businesses which include the UKTV group of channels, Living, Bravo, Challenge and the Virgin 1 channels. The BBC already own a fifty per cent stake in the UKTV group of channels.
Such a deal would actually bring ...
by David Allen
It may seem to be a strange idea, and yet it would seem from a study made for the European Commission that around forty per cent of the European population do not actually use the internet at all.
But at the other end of the scale the same study has found that the amount of Europeans who are connected to the internet is around eighty per cent.
Clearly there are ...
by David Allen
Businesses struggling with a poor broadband service in South Derbyshire have contacted their district council about this, who in turn will be holding talks with BT on how they can address this problem.
But this would initially appear to be a strange way of going about getting internet connection problems sorted out. Because BT says that they are not aware of any ...
April 18, 2008
by David Allen
Thanks to a content platform developed by BT, ITV will now broadcast their on demand service to viewers located around the world.
The platform will be using the BT Mosaic service; this will allow ITV to share their content with various networks and different devices. This service will also give ITV the option of allowing other broadcasters to opportunity to access the archive.
It is ...
by Janet Harris
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) recently announced that it is now using social networking site, Facebook, to help in its fight against crime.
Facebook and GMP have collaborated on the development of a Web 2.0 application which provides news feeds, and links to a crime-reporting form, Police Web sites and videos.
Facebook members can add the application to their user profiles at http://apps.facebook.com/gmpupdates.
GMP hopes ...
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It would seem that despite live coverage of Formula One being quickly taken away from ITV and given to the BBC for a price, the team that is behind the production of ITV F1, North One, are having talks with the BBC with a view to producing the programme when it moves channels in 2009.
The team, who are fresh from their BAFTA winning evening out, would be the ...
