Briefly, Recently, many ISPs in the UK have been complaining that the – maybe surprisingly large – success of iPlayer is putting strain on their networks. Now they want a slice of the TV license fee payed by the UK households. This is ridiculous. BBC already pays a considerable amount of money to feed their [...]
BBC web video* about the first merchant ship to use a sail – or a kite – in over hundreds year. Use of a kite can save this ship over 20% fuel costs which is about $1600 a day. Rather cool design. –kristian *Quicktime – no, Flash – no, WMV and RealPlayer – yes. It [...]
Friends, we must act now and stop BBC from making their forthcoming on-demand service Windows only. >>>Please see their open consultation here. If you don’t fancy reading all of the 121 pages of “Public Value Assessment: BBC On-demand Service Proposal”, see the parts where the word “Microsoft” is mentioned: “The technology required to use this [...]