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Europe takes aim at BBC licence fee
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| The EC is keen to tweak the rules to allow national broadcasters to better
| cope with new media, to define their public service remit and improve
| national supervision of their activities. But opponents of the proposals say
| they would hamstring public service broadcasters exploiting new media
| technologies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/05/ec_consults_broadcast/
They still try to save their reputation, having been corrupted by Microsoft and
its cronies (details below).
BBC Joins Parrot Foundation Advisory Board
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| The Parrot Foundation announced today that the BBC, UK-based public service
| broadcaster, will join the Parrot Foundation's advisory board.
|
| [...]
|
| About Parrot Foundation
|
| The Parrot Foundation is a membership-based non-profit organization,
| providing technical, legal, and organizational infrastructure for the Parrot
| open source software project. It supports the open source community for the
| Parrot virtual machine, tools, libraries, and computer language
| implementations, and promotes innovation in virtual machine technology and
| dynamic languages.
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http://www.parrot.org/news/bbc-joins-parrot-foundation-advisory-board
Recent:
George Wright responds to backstage questions
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| Some of the backstage community noticed the efforts of the BBC in Ubuntu 8.10
| which was released on 30th October, to make a range of non-DRM content a. So
| we decided to catch up with one of the man behind the project, George Wright
| who is Portofolio Manager at Research and Innovaton. If Flash isn't your
| style we have the same video in Mpeg4, Ogg Theora and Ogg Dirac.
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http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2008/11/george_wright_r.html
There is a BBC in my Amarok
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| This script is now available from kde-apps.org or it can be automatically
| installed from within Amarok 2 by using the "Get More Scripts" button int the
| script manager.
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http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/826-There-is-a-BBC-in-my-Amarok.html
Ubuntu Brings the BBC to Linux
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| The saga is still unfolding, and DRM technologies are still stuck on being
| invasive, intrusive, shoddy, and ineffective. Who designs these things? Are
| the bright developers being foiled by PHBs? Or are the smart developers all
| busy doing other things, and the only ones left are the janitors? Who are
| plenty intelligent, but not hip to coding. Or maybe they are hip to coding
| and making DRM sucky on purpose. At any rate it is lame that in this glorious
| year 2008 of the 21st century, we are still hearing the same stupid excuses
| about why non-Windows users don't matter.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/10/bbbc-totem-ubun.html
Research on BBC content for GNU/Linux
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| We then worked with Canonical and their software partners Collabra to deliver
| this feed to the Totem media player, and Gstreamer multimedia platform, to
| display available content in a simple, browsable window using a free software
| plugin, where the feed is updated using the Internet, when the user starts
| the player.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/research_on_bbc_content_for_gn.html
Execs & Accounts UK and EU: WPP, Microsoft, BBC Worldwide
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| Chris Dobson, Microsoft's VP for its UK Online Service Group, is leaving the
| company. Dobson is believed to be joining BBC Worldwide in a senior role. He
| joined Microsoft in 2001 following positions at Zenith and MTV Networks.
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http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3630709
BBC set to name Erik Huggers as Ashley Highfield's successor
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| The BBC is expected to confirm that former Microsoft executive Erik Huggers
| is to replace Ashley Highfield as the new BBC director of future media and
| technology as early as today.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/15/bbc.digitalmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=media
BBC Opens Up - Or Does it?
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| But nice as this sounds, there still seems to be a disconnect between the
| BBC's announced ideals and their actions. As the very definition of open
| standards that the BBC itself linked to says, "Open Standards are free for
| all to implement, with no royalty or fee." The fact that both AAC and H.264
| are encumbered with patent licenses that make their distribution under free
| licenses problematic flies in the face of this definition.
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http://ostatic.com/170869-blog/bbc-opens-up-or-does-it
Crimes Microsoft Gets Away With - So Far
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| News publications are cautious about making accusations, and because of that,
| some nasty acts of Microsoft are essentially being erased from the record.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft convinced Baystar Capital to put $50 Million dollars into SCO's
| lawsuit against IBM and other Open Source users, and promised to "backstop"
| Baystar's investment if SCO lost money, according to this sworn testimony.
| But I'm told that one person's testimony, even sworn testimony, isn't proof.
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http://technocrat.net/no-cache/d/2008/7/30/46981
Related:
Dirac 1.0.0 Released
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| Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a
| wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to
| broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing. The v1.0.0
| version was released yesterday, and the new VLC version supports playback
| of .ts/.drc Dirac files.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/20301/Dirac_1_0_0_Released
Worlds first high performance Dirac video codec implementation available
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| Thanks to collaboration with the Xiph.org foundation there is an official
| mapping for putting Dirac video into the Ogg container format underway, and
| the Schrödinger project also hosts a proposal for mapping Dirac into the
| popular MPEG-TS container format, which is currently being considered for
| certification by the MPEG working group. We expect to see and provide
| mappings for a lot more container formats in due course.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/10452.html
BBC iPlayer protest report
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| First on site with me is Tom Chance, Green Party spokesperson on Free
| Software. He has organized for Dr Derek Wall, lead spokesperson for the Green
| Party to join us and make some statements about BBC iPlayer and the Microsoft
| lock-in it establishes.
|
| [...]
|
| We have 1500 fliers to distribute, that focus on the key issue with the
| iPlayer, and why $130 Million and 4 years of development don't get you much
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| when you choose Microsoft DRM.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/iPlayerProtestReport
BBC Director General grilled by MPs on iPlayer
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| During the meeting there is discussion of iPlayer’s total cost to the licence
| fee-payer - the BBC representatives are unable to give a figure, but start
| the bidding at £20m, excluding staff costs. Thomson gives incorrect
| information - that Mac and Linux versions of iPlayer have the same
| functionality as Windows versions - and has to change his evidence at the
| end. Perhaps it was this confusion that prompted Dr John Pugh MP to follow up
| the encounter with a letter direct to Mark Thomson today discussing platform
| neutrality in greater detail. A copy of this letter has been passed to the
| Open Rights Group.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/10/bbc-director-general-grilled-by-mps-on-iplayer/
BBC website £36m 'overspend'
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| THE BBC went almost £36 million over the intended budget for bbc.co.uk in the
| past year, it was disclosed today.
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1051855_bbc_website_36m_overspend?rss=yes?rss=yes
The BBC Has Drunk its Brain
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| Good to see the BBC with its finger on the pulse of computing, bravely
| serving up the facts without fear or favour here:
|
| Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch
| features as an alternative to the mouse.
|
| Rather like the Hewlett-Packard touchscreen system I used back in the 1980s.
|
| [...]
|
| Is this a similar statement to 2003's "Bill Gates said that Longhorn will
| have a unified storage system called WinFS." found at
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3220017.stm
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/bbc-has-drunk-its-brain.html
Has the BBC Duped Us over iPlayer?
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| Totally far-out, man. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLOODY GNU/LINUX VERSION?
|
| I wonder how that complaint about the BBC providing state aid to Microsoft is
| coming along....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/has-bbc-duped-us-over-iplayer.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/14/bill_gates_bbc_secrets/
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
BBC iPlayer Protests
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| Who are the people responsible for creating this mess?
|
| * Mark Thompson, BBC director general (DG)
| * Erik Huggers, group controller at BBC Future Media & Technology
| * Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology
|
| Right now, there is very considerable concern within the BBC that the actions
| of the Director General and his team are sending the corporation in the wrong
| direction. The BBC has been embroiled in a number of recent controversies,
| all linked back to the DG's leadership.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/iPlayerProtest
Leaked Ofcom blueprint bashes Beeb
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| OFCOM SECRETS have again slipped out, as latest report suggests that the poor
| old BBC may have to ‘donate’ some of its licence fee to other channels.
|
| This leaked information suggests the BBC’s ‘excess’ licence money will be
| given, yes given, to other broadcasters for public service by 2012.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/28/leaked-ofcom-blueprint-favours
Remoulding Microsoft for the web
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| Yesterday two of Microsoft's leading executives, Jean Philippe Courtois, head
| of all Microsoft outside North America, and Gordon Frazer, head of Microsoft
| UK visited BBC News' Business Unit, as part of a series of lunchtime talks we
| arrange with leading businesses.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/07/remoulding_microsoft_for_the_w.html
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