[News] [Rival] MSBBC Ignores Microsoft's #1 Rival, Serves Phones Instead

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BBC iPlayer offered on Nokia N96

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| Users of the Nokia N96 are to be among the first with the ability to run the
| BBC's iPlayer on their mobile phones.
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[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7603606.stm[/url]

BBC in covering technology badly shocker.

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| His piece reads like heâ€™s giving Linux a thorough test. If this was his
| intention, then using the EeePC was a big mistake. However, the fact the WiFi
| didnâ€™t work in Ubuntu? Very valid and annoying, which is why I still
| recommend looking up Linux compatibility before making the jump. I guess if
| this chap had written this anywhere else, I could forgive elements of it. But
| having pride of place on the BBC website, it is very damaging to Linuxâ€™s
| reputation and misleading to the public. Itâ€™s not a review, or look at
| Linux - itâ€™s a blog of one manâ€™s struggle to make a device (yes, the EeePC is
| a device) do something it shouldnâ€™t. Iâ€™m sure if they had enabled comments on
| the piece - there would be some angry comments there at the moment. Sigh.
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[url]http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/andrewm/2008/09/08/bbc-in-covering-technology-badly-shocker/[/url]

Recent:

BBC iPlayer 2.0 = iPlayer 1.0?

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| Â* Â* The new-look BBC iPlayer will be available on other platforms for TV
| Â* Â* catch-up, including the Apple iPhone & iPod touch, and the Nintendo Wii.
|
| Wot, no GNU/Linux? But wait:
|
| Â* Â* The new-look BBC iPlayer is available on PC, Mac, Linux, Virgin Media,
| Â* Â* Apple iPhone & iPod touch and Nintendo Wii.
|
| So it's available for GNU/Linux, but does that mean I can use the catch-up
| service, the main bone of contention for iPlayer 1.0?
|
| Clear as mud.
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[url]http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/06/bbc-iplayer-20-iplayer-10.html[/url]

Related:

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. Â*
|
| [...]
|
| 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
| Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â*^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| when you choose Microsoft DRM. Â*
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[url]http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/iPlayerProtestReport[/url]

BBC Director General grilled by MPs on iPlayer

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| During the meeting there is discussion of iPlayerâ€™s total cost to the licence
| fee-payer - the BBC representatives are unable to give a figure, but start
| the bidding at Â£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. Â* Â* Â* Â*
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[url]http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/10/bbc-director-general-grilled-by-mps-on-iplayer/[/url]

BBC website Â£36m 'overspend'

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| THE BBC went almost Â£36 million over the intended budget for bbc.co.uk in the
| past year, it was disclosed today.
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[url]http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1051855_bbc_website_36m_overspend?rss=yes?rss=yes[/url]

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:
|
| Â* Â* Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch
| Â* Â* 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
| [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3220017.stm[/url]
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[url]http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/bbc-has-drunk-its-brain.html[/url]

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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[url]http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/has-bbc-duped-us-over-iplayer.html[/url]

Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be? Â*
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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[url]http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc[/url]

BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft

[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/14/bill_gates_bbc_secrets/[/url]

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 Â£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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[url]http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411[/url]

BBC iPlayer Protests

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| Who are the people responsible for creating this mess?
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| Â* Â* * Mark Thompson, BBC director general (DG)
| Â* Â* * Erik Huggers, group controller at BBC Future Media & Technology
| Â* Â* * 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. Â*
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[url]http://www.defectivebydesign.org/iPlayerProtest[/url]
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