BBC off-loads technology wing
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9.15am: The BBC has closed a Â£2bn deal with Siemens Business Services for the contracting out of its technology wing. The ten-year Technology Framework Contract, approved by the government, will see the corporation save an estimated Â£30m a year.
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The government has responded to calls to make the BBC's iPlayer work on computers that do not run Windows.
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Auntie's IE hegemony broken for download client The BBC has finally made the download version of its iPlayer on-demand TV service compatible with Firefox, after six months as an Internet Explorer-only product.â¦
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Britain's public broadcaster the BBC  announced plans on Thursday to cut 1,800 jobs and integrate its  TV, radio and Internet news operations to confront the  digital-age shift away from traditional media.
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Microsoft-only launch weeks away Exclusive The BBC Trust has asked to meet open source advocates to discuss their complaints over the corporation's Windows-only on demand broadband TV service, iPlayer.â¦
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US iPlayer in the works Just as the BBC is slashing jobs at home, its commercial tentacle is ramping up efforts to squeeze money from its programming and web content abroad.â¦
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Text of press release from BBC on 9 February  Jenny Abramsky, BBC Director of Audio and Music, has announced the build-out of the next phase of the BBC's DAB [digital audio broadcasting] digital radio transmitter network.
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Project Kangaroo is go The UK's terrestrial broadcasters are reportedly in talks to establish a single platform for on-demand TV to broadband devices.â¦
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The BBC has demonstrated an open source video codec named Dirac which it claims offers twice the bit rate of MPEG-2. According to a story on The Register, the new codec was revealed at the LinuxWorld exhibition
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BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, launched on Tuesday a service allowing consumers to download its TV shows from Apple's iTunes website.
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ELEANOR HALL: To Britain now, where the world&#39;s largest public broadcaster, the BBC, is about to undergo what its Director-General is calling a &quot;transformation&quot;.
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Britain's public broadcaster the BBC announced plans on Thursday to cut 1,800 jobs and integrate its TV, radio and Internet news operations to confront the digital-age shift away from traditional media.
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The BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could start to become big in 2008
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Â· Ofcom urges rethink of broadcaster's remit  Â· Cash help needed to plug Â£100m digital black hole
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London - The BBC said on Tuesday it would eliminate 2 900 jobs, or more than 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a cost-saving &quot;transformation&quot; of the world&#39;s biggest and best-known public broadcaster.
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Radical plans for the future of the BBC have been announced by Director General, Mark Thompson. Mr Thompson said the changes are needed so that more of the licence fee can be put into programmes and content.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) said they plan to explore cutting edge ways that the BBC can deliver content. The announcement, made Thursday, follows one earlier this year from the BBC when the broadcaster said it is working on launching services that allow it toÂ deliver content to usersÂ whenever they want it and on a variety of devices. The BBC stressed that the partnership with Microsoft is nonexclusive. The broadcaster has a long-standing relationship with RealNetworks, which includes the launch late last year of BBC World News as part of the RealNetworks SuperPass streaming video service in the U.S. The BBC has other streaming media offerings through RealNetworks around the world. As part of the Microsoft announcement, the BBC said it wants to work with many companies in the content distribution area so that viewers don't have to visit the main BBC Web site to find content. Some of the types of services the companies may collaborate on include search, site navigation, and distribution. The BBC said it considers Microsoft to be a gateway to audiences that the BBC wishes to reach, through services such as MSN, Windows Live, the Xbox and Windows Media Center. The BBC and Microsoft also discussed new strategies from the BBC, including its plans for an online archive, a new Web site and new ways to distribute online content. As part of its announcement earlier this year, the BBC launched a trial Web site where visitors could find information about the one million programs stored in the BBC's archive. The broadcaster also said it was investigating better ways to label content in order to improve search and that it planned to launch a streaming media service.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.