£140m profit for BBC Worldwide

The commercial division of the BBC has posted record profits for the year ending 2009/2010. The figure released by BBC Worldwide is a profit of £140 million, which is well over.. more

BBC Wales wins big at Bafta Cymru

The Bafta Cymru Awards 2010 took place at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff and while the BBC Cymru Wales channel took eleven of the awards it was S4C that came out.. more

Pace is now number one

The set top box manufacturer Pace is now the biggest supplier of satellite and cable TV set-top-boxes to the pay-TV industry in the world, according to new data released by industry.. more

Nintendo signs up for Edinburgh Festival again

Nintendo will be a major part of the Edinburgh Festival once again this year, or more specifically, a major player at Edinburgh Interactive, the games and entertainment section of the famous festival. Edinburgh Interactive takes place at The Filmhouse, an arthouse cinema, on August 25th.. more

Evening Standard wheels out smartphone app

The London Evening Standard has produced a new app for smartphones. The mobile news app will be available free of charge on the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile devices. Produced in association with Handmark, it provides readers with real-time access to all the latest.. more

Google implements encrypted search

Google has launched a secure and encrypted version of its search engine. You can reach Google SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) simply by adding an “s” on to the end of the “http” at the start of the site’s URL: https://www.google.com Only the .com site is.. more

Ireland implements three strikes file-sharing disconnection

Irish company Eircom has become the first ISP to actually implement the three strikes and you’re off the Internet rule. As regular readers will be aware, this basically means that if you’re caught (allegedly) downloading illegal files, you’ll be warned several times, before being disconnected.. more

ZyXEL Communications announces X150N router

ZyXEL Communications Inc has launched the X150N, 802.11n router which comes with a firewall on board and state-of-the-art WPA2 AES wireless encryption to block hackers, allowing users to browse the internet safely. It offers speeds of up to 150 Mbps which is ideal for streaming.. more

Nokia and Yahoo hook up with web services

Nokia and Yahoo have announced a partnership in which they intend to combine their web services over both PCs and mobile phones. Nokia will provide Yahoo with maps and navigation services, which basically means that Ovi Maps will be integrated into Yahoo. And Yahoo will.. more

CEO admits Facebook “missed the mark” on privacy

Following the news that a “Quit Facebook” campaign website has popped up on the Internet, with 14,000 and counting supporters, the social networking site’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been musing about the current privacy controversies Facebook has been, erm, facing. In a Washington Post article,.. more