The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has for many years now had one of the biggest and most visited websites on the whole Internet.  The company has taken great pride over the years and in 2002 a leaked document, still available online called “The Glass Wall” provided a masterclass in website usability that many people still consider [...]

Categories: The Web

In one of the most eagerly awaited broadcasting moves of the year, the BBC have now released their iPlayer app for Apple’s iPad.  The app is supported in 11 countries and will be a subscription service.  The countries supported are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.  Australia, Canada [...]

Categories: Music and Video

The international launch of the BBC’s iPlayer service, one of if not the finest example of an IPTV service, has been eagerly awaited now and has been expected for a couple of years, especially with the number of British ex-pats living around the world. Now rumour has it that the rollout will begin with a [...]

Categories: Music and Video

The Internet is a global village. It allows you to connect with users from all over the world in seconds. There are however services available that are only accessible by users from specific countries. Probably the most renowned services are the tv streaming site Hulu and the online radio Pandora, which are both only available [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

gHacks editor Mike Halsey will be appearing on BBC Radio Sheffield tomorrow (Thursday 26th Aug 2010) at 11:30am in the UK (06:30 est, 03:30 pst, 12:30 Europe, 20:30 Aus) talking about his work in ICT and how it led to writing two books about Windows 7 including his forthcoming Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out which [...]

Categories: ghacks, Microsoft

No, the BBC isn’t trying to subsidise its coffers by branching out into cyber-crime.  As an experiment the British public-service broadcaster wants to know just how secure smartphones really are. The malware takes the form of a game that spies on the smartphone’s owner and was built using the standard software toolkits that are available  [...]

Categories: Hacking

gHacks editor Mike Halsey will be appearing on BBC2′s premier political programme Newsnight on BBC2 tomorrow night, Monday 26th July 2010.  The programme will be shown in the UK.

Categories: ghacks

BBC iPlayer is a popular online service by the BBC that is offering BBC radio and TV programmes on the Internet. The BBC TV programs are limited to users from the United Kingdom only while the radio programs can be accessed by a worldwide audience. BBC iPlayer is in this regard like many of the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

BBC Languages is a website by the BBC that is providing language courses for several popular languages such as German, French, Spanish and Chinese. A language portal was constructed for each language that is used as the main hub for that language. From there students can get a quick fix of the selected language which [...]

Categories: Online Services