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The Royal Wedding “Took Down Twitpic”, But Not For Long

, 30. April 2011

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Yesterday was the day of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton (Now the Duke of Cambridge, and HRH the Duchess of Cambridge, respectively), and boy did the internet know about it. Almost every mainstream news publication was reporting about it, YouTube was streaming the event live across the globe, and most people [...]

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UK Readers: BBC iPlayer Offering Other Channels

, 19. February 2011

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BBC today announced a new feature to the current BBC iPlayer. Users of iPlayer can now consume content from other on-demand providers and broadcasters. Starting today you can now view content from ITV, Channel 4, S4C, Five, SeeSaw.com and new partner MSN VIdeo Player, this can all be accessed under one roof, well website, the [...]

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The BBC Unable to Track License Cheats Using iPad, Smartphones & PC

, 9. February 2011

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Those who watch live BBC programmes are very unlikely to be caught for cheating the license system, until today. Coming out today is the official BBC iPlayer iPad and Android App, which the Telegraph have pointed out will now allow them to track who’s watching their programmes. Until today people have been able to free [...]

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BBC To Cut 25% Of Online Budget By 2013

, 24. January 2011

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Today the BBC announced its plans to reshape it’s online service. 360 jobs are set to be deleted and up to 200 of it’s top level websites taken down. The plan is to outsource for what the BBC currently serves, on the BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat website, their is two RSS feeds of TechCrunch and [...]

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BBC iPhone Apps Launch: News First

, 23. July 2010

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Finally, after much anticipation The BBC Trust have given the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch App in the UK the ‘green light’. Even though the list of BBC Apps were available outside the UK, they were never available in, strange you may think – the reasoning behind this is due to concerns over the BBC being anti-competitive. However [...]

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