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Social publisher 6waves and the Worldwide service from the BBC have announced that they have entered into a partnership which aims to create a series of titles based on the best-known franchises of the radio communications network.
In May, players will get access to Top Gear: Speed World, a Facebook-based video game... |
23 April 2012
02:30 GMT |
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The infamous hacktivist collective threatened the BBC after the company censored the word “Palestine” in a video.
TeaMp0isoN is known for supporting the Palestinian cause, hacking and defacing the websites of those who oppose the country’s freedom.
After seeing a PressTV report in which BBC defe... |
18 February 2012
05:27 GMT |
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The success of a BBC television show gave cybercriminals ideas for a 419 scam that has the potential to fill their pockets with money from unsuspecting Internet users who are duped into thinking that they may be the recipients of a fortune.
Graham Cluley from Sophos came across one of these email scams that relies o... |
7 February 2012
08:13 GMT |
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Fans of the Doctor Who franchise will rejoice to hear that the BBC, the organization that owns the rights to the franchise, stated that it would be launching Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock in March, on the PlayStation 3 home console and on the PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony.
The developers also admit to be work... |
25 January 2012
02:29 GMT |
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BBC's peculiar choice of including Sweetie Panda female ,brought by Edinburgh Zoo from China, in a list of successful women that have been under the spotlight in 2011 has raised a lot of controversy.
Even though the Chinese panda couple have increased the popularity of the zoo and have attracted the attention ... |
28 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Netflix and the BBC have announced that they've reached a deal to make a number of BBC titles available in the UK and Ireland when the Netflix streaming service launches early next year. A number of older series will be available at launch with more titles coming in later.
Netflix already has a deal with BBC Wo... |
20 December 2011
08:11 GMT |
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) have announced a new version of their iPlayer app that now has an interface tailored for the iPhone and features 3G streaming capabilities for both iPhone and iPad.David Madden blogs for BBC noting that people are beginning to understand the true value of having your favorit... |
12 December 2011
08:04 GMT |
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BBC is currently accused of misleading the audience, encouraging its public to believe that a footage of a newly-born polar bear cub was filmed in the wild, when it was actually produced in an animal park from Germany.
Even though the creatures were not born in their natural habitat, born “beneath the snow&rdq... |
12 December 2011
03:57 GMT |
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BBC's America Shop website encountered a problem that not only allowed their customers to see each others billing information, but also made simple Google searches take people to the sensitive information containing pages.
According to DataBreaches, one of the customers of the site noticed the issue while googl... |
21 November 2011
08:05 GMT |
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The BBC iPlayer, a website and service which enables those in the UK to catch up on their favorite BBC programming, has proven quite popular in the country, about 20 percent of internet users in the country visit the site. Now it's launching a HTML5 version of the site aimed at TVs in particular.The new site is ... |
8 August 2011
11:51 GMT |
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BBC Worldwide has launched its iPlayer iPad application in European territories, including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Republic of Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
For €6.99 a month (or €49.99 for an annual subscription), BBC iPlayer subscribers wil... |
28 July 2011
05:50 GMT |
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A free-to-play MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game based on the hit Doctor Who television series has been formally announced by license owner BBC and its developer, Three Rings.
BBC's Doctor Who TV series is becoming increasingly popular in the last few years, and the broadcasting company hasn't been... |
1 March 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The websites of BBC 6 Music and 1Xtra radios were used by hackers to exploit visitors and infect them with a dangerous banking trojan.According to security researchers from Websense, attackers exploited vulnerabilities in the two websites in order to inject a hidden iframe into them.The iframe loaded malicious conten... |
15 February 2011
12:55 GMT |
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TV watching in the UK is about to be transformed with the announcement that Project Canvas, a joint project by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five and a couple of ISPs, has been approved by the BBC Trust, the governing body of the BBC. Project Canvas aims to create a standard VOD, IPTV platform for use in the UK. "The Trus... |
25 June 2010
07:14 GMT |
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Videogames claiming that constant play can actually improve the mental abilities of those engaged have been among the biggest hits on the Nintendo DS platform. The titles were marketed at both young players and the elderly promising that their mind would be better prepared for real world problems after the simulated ... |
26 April 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Machine translation holds a lot of promise and it has certainly progressed in recent years thanks to efforts from companies like Google. But is it good enough to handle hundreds of people talking in several different languages and allow them to understand each other? This was the question both the BBC and Google aske... |
26 March 2010
10:21 GMT |
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iTunes may no longer say, “Welcome to the machine” to the members of Pink Floyd. BBC news reports that the band have successfully defended their right in court to stop the selling of their song on digital download services like iTunes. Apparently, the decision to stop the sale of tracks, BBC relates, has... |
12 March 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Online video is growing every year and will inevitably replace TV watching like we know it in the not-so-distant future. We're not quite there yet, thanks in part to the established media companies, especially the distribution part, doing everything in their power to stop it or at least slowing it down. A new m... |
21 December 2009
11:00 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time before the colonies and the mainland got in another conflict. Not as trivial as tea, this time it's the Xbox Live Gold subscription that has the UK and the States arguing. Another service to be provided to consoles is BBC's iPlayer that's available on the PlayStation 3 and ... |
30 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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There is a great need for TV content online. The sheer amount of illegal ways of getting to it is evidence enough, but in recent years, companies are starting to realize that rather than just spend millions on trying to prevent piracy it would be much easier and more profitable to meet the needs of the consumer. In ... |
27 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Hulu can be considered a success in the US, rising to be one of the most visited video sites in the country. But its content is restricted to the North American region, which makes it largely irrelevant to the rest of the world. The site's backers though, three of the four major TV networks in the US, are pushin... |
25 August 2009
09:06 GMT |
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The popular video sharing website YouTube recently just set a world record, as far as the number of unique visitors and the number of videos watched were concerned. The company dominated the market, and literally dusted the competition, while at the same time registering a 13 percent increase in views from December 2... |
6 February 2009
10:16 GMT |
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The BBC has finally released its iPlayer client for Mac. The new iPlayer application enables Mac users to download shows and store them on their computers' hard drives. Previously, they could only watch iPlayer content via the BBC iPlayer website. For the moment, however, the services available with the BBC iPla... |
19 December 2008
05:42 GMT |
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Eidos would rather be associated with games where blood and violence are the main characters, while controversy is not completely out of question. However, it seems that every now and then they decide to create a game that is completely safe for kids and, overall, promises to bring to life a great and fun experience.... |
7 May 2008
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Following recent reports that British BBC viewers would be able to download a selection of programs straight from Apple's digital store, Apple is announcing that ITV programmes are now available on iTunes UK. Users will be able to download complete series of classic ITV shows such as "Cold Feet", "Brideshead Rev... |
23 April 2008
17:06 GMT |
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In what is undoubtedly a well planned move on behalf of the BBC, iPhone users are being offered a beta for the BBC iPlayer application. TUAW reports that a limited selection of shows from the iPlayer has already been made available to UK iPhone owners, while this has nothing to do with the release of the SDK, nor was... |
7 March 2008
09:46 GMT |
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A recent Reuters report reveals that British BBC viewers will be able to download a selection of programs straight from Apple's digital store iTunes, as the two companies have struck a deal. The agreement was announced on Tuesday by the public broadcaster's commercial arm, according to Yahoo News.Programs l... |
19 February 2008
09:45 GMT |
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Sources on the Internet have revealed that the Mac version of BBC iPlayer will be launched this year. The new application will enable Mac users not only to stream, but also to download TV content from the Internet, and watch it at their leisure. BBC found that the iPlayer was having a significant effect on the web TV... |
8 February 2008
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Facebook must have spooked shivers down MySpace's spine. From the outside, it looks like the biggest (still) social network in the world is trying to expand into all directions at once. It just opened offices in Russia and a homepage for the community there, a similar course of action is coming in Turkey (MySpac... |
24 January 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Whenever I hear "British" - the word - being mentioned, I instantly imagine a Londoner wearing a black pot hat and a black trench coat, with an eyeglass looking superior and snorting with discontent. That seems to be a big seller for everything that's made by or certified by Brits, as the figures from comScore s... |
22 January 2008
08:26 GMT |
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Almost 160 thousand downloads per day on average were recorded by the BBC site ever since it launched its video-on-demand service on Christmas day. Doing the math (22 days multiplied by 160 thousand downloads makes.. I need a calculator for this one there it is, more than 3.5 million) you'll see that it was wil... |
16 January 2008
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I'm really curious what more we can learn about Kate Moss except the horde of things we already know - and I mean bad, ugly, compromising things. But apparently, there is a lot more to the crack-loving British supermodel, otherwise I can't explain why she's so desperate to gag her ex boyfriend's a... |
20 December 2007
10:55 GMT |
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The BBC website was officially launched 10 years ago and it has been the address to go to for the top news from the most reliable sources ever since. The facelift that they are trying to go through at the moment is not the first attempt at it, there was also a "myBBC" feature that resembled the concept behind the be... |
18 December 2007
06:31 GMT |
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Mobile TV has taken a turn for the better recently. Watching the favorite programs the mobile way has really proved to be highly appealing. BBC has seen the great opportunity that this solution has to offer and made a deal with O2 in order to put its programs on the devices of their subscribers.BBC Worldwide's c... |
21 August 2007
09:12 GMT |
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The online video sharing service is currently involved in an impressive traffic increase and it will soon challenge BBC for the UK supremacy. In the recent period, YouTube got very close to the news service because the traffic of the online video service was dramatically improved especially in this country. According... |
21 June 2007
09:33 GMT |
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The latest news is now available on YouTube through the videos provided by BBC World, a recent partner of the online video sharing service. According to Broadband TV News, BBC uploads approximately 30 clips per day, but the YouTube channel is not available to UK residents. The partnership was signed some time ago whe... |
30 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Remember the WoW account hacking? If you're a WoW player, you couldn't have missed any of the articles posting this issue. Well, as it turns out, an article posted by grimwell says that someone might have found the problem behind all the account hacking, stealing and selling even 5 year's worth items. ... |
6 April 2007
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BBC has announced that it has started a trial to syndicate a range of its TV channels and radio networks in the UK, with mobile operators Orange, Vodafone and 3. The service will last up to 12 month and allow the mobile operators' subscribers to watch BBC One, BBC News 24 and BBC Three (except for some of the sp... |
30 March 2007
06:15 GMT |
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BBC has made public its intention of creating an iTunes & iPod alternative, to be materialized as an online media player that would be a more suitable choice for customers. This comes in a time when Apple's iTunes faces growing pressure from several European countries demanding the Cupertino-based company to ope... |
7 March 2007
09:40 GMT |
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YouTube and BBC is one of the most known partnerships made by the video service after the Viacom removal, reaching an impressive number of views. The agreement between the two companies created 3 new channels to display the content provided by BBC: 2 channels especially built for entertainment content, one ad based f... |
7 March 2007
06:52 GMT |
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YouTube is the video service acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.6 billion, representing one of the most impressive investments ever made for an Internet company. Since the Google acquisition, YouTube was continuously brought in the spotlights because more and more companies are suing the search giant for publi... |
5 March 2007
10:38 GMT |
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Some days ago, rumors about a possible YouTube, BBC deal were quickly spreading on the Internet although the two companies refused to comment on them. Today, BBC confirmed the partnership and announced a content deal that will allow the company to use the videos published on YouTube. The agreement will also create 3 ... |
2 March 2007
10:34 GMT |
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