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BBC News
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The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation's regulators have said.
It comes after the BBC said a download service for Mac and Linux users was not 100% definite and would depe..
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BBC News
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The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google.
Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips of BBC content.
The BBC hopes that the deal wi..
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BBC News
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The BBC has issued a fix to stop people downloading programmes from the iPlayer website that were intended for streaming on an iPhone of iPod only.
Hackers had discovered an exploit that allowed them to save the programmes to hard disk and share them w..
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BBC News
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Articles relating to high-profile court cases should be removed from online news archives, the former Lord Chancellor has told the BBC.
Lord Falconer believes the action is necessary to avoid news stories written before a case influencing its outcome...
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BBC News
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The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are to launch a joint on-demand service, which will bring together hundreds of hours of television programmes in one place.
The service is set to go live in 2008 and will offer viewers access to current shows and archive mate..
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BBC News
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Gamers will be able to download episodes of BBC Two show Top Gear inside video game Gran Turismo 5.
Forty episodes of the popular motoring show will be available on a dedicated
Gran Turismo TV channel accessed via the PlayStation 3's online network...
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BBC News
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Advertising will appear on the BBC News website for users outside the UK, the corporation's commercial arm says.
BBC Worldwide says advertising will generate new income for the BBC, which needs to plug a �2bn budget shortfall.
The BBC argues that..
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BBC News
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The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria has become the first place in the UK to undergo the official switchover from analogue to digital TV.
BBC Two's signal was switched off at 0200 BST on Wednesday, with digital channels replacing it shortly after.
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Ars Technica
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While the network neutrality debate can sometimes feel a bit theoretical in the US, it's a live issue in Europe, and this week it hit the pages of newspapers across the UK. What made news was a set of demands by UK ISPs, which banded together to tell the..
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Independent
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Some of the largest broadband providers in the UK are threatening to "pull the plug" from the BBC's new iPlayer unless the corporation contributes to the cost of streaming its videos over the internet.
The likes of Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse ar..
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BBC News
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Calls to make the BBC's on demand TV service work on all computer operating systems are to get a fresh look.
The BBC Trust has offered to meet with open source advocates who argue that the corporation has a duty to make the download service platform ag..
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BBC News
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The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission.
The charge concerns the use of Microsoft technology in the corporation's forthcoming iPlayer.
The web..
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BBC News
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The BBC's on demand TV service, the BBC iPlayer, will launch to the public on 27 July, the corporation has revealed.
UK users will be able to download popular shows over the net seven days after broadcast to watch on their PC.
Later this year, the s..
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BBC News
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The BBC News website has picked up two awards at the internet's most glamorous night of the year.
The site won Webbys for Best News Website and the People's Choice Award for online news sites for the third year running.
The BBC's Radio 1 website als..
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BBC News
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Elements of Google's privacy policy are "vague" and need to be made more precise, the firm's global privacy counsel has told BBC News.
Peter Fleischer said the company "could do better" with policy statements that explained why user information was som..
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BBC News
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Cable & Wireless has served an injunction against a former executive following the theft of a 100,000 customer database, the BBC has learned.
The injunction orders Seemab Zafar to hand over any part of the database of former subsidiary Bulldog, includi..
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BBC News
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BBC TV and radio channels will be available on some mobile phones for a trial period, it has been announced.
For an initial 12 months, a range of broadcast output will be syndicated to the Vodafone, Orange and 3 networks.
Subscribers to their TV pac..
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