Data caps a crude and unfair tool for easing online congestion

Two years ago, Felten and Herman Wagter the man who spearheaded Amsterdam's fiber rollout and wrote about it for Ars issued a challenge to Internet providers show us the evidence. Of course, if I find myself to be wrong and if indeed I manage to identify users that systematically degrade the experience for other users, I will say so publicly. If, as I suspect, there are no such users, I will also say so publicly. - arstechnica.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 3rd - 11th December

The Young Handlers, all of whom are under the age of 18, take to the field first, setting the pace and the standard for the rest of the competition. This round decides the ultimate winning team of One Man and His Dog 2011. Red Button has complete coverage of this year's competition. - bbc.co.uk

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Ariel - Capita keeps TV Licensing contract

The deal - which comes into force next July - consolidates two existing contracts held by Capita and iQor which provides business process outsourcing into one new arrangement. Estimated to be worth approximately 560m to Capita, the contract represents savings to the BBC of around 220m over the eight years of the agreement - savings that allow more money to be spent on programmes. 'Capita's bid was the best both in terms of innovation and efficiencies and so offered best value for money,' says Zarin Patel, chief financial officer. - bbc.co.uk

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EBU commits to hybrid future - Broadband TV News

More than 20 members of the European Broadcasting Union have agreed to a European-wide rollout of hybrid TV during 2012. - broadbandtvnews.com

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Ariel - BBC urged to reconsider local cuts

'What concerns me most is the decimation of the West Midlands with Birmingham due to lose its factual radio and TV programmes,' she said. - bbc.co.uk

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Freeview balloons hit 'Corrie' and 'Deal Or No Deal' sets - Media news - Media Week

It is the first time ITV and Channel 4 have allowed locations from any of their programmes to be used to promote another service or product and a spokesman from Freeview said it was to engage viewers with the Freeview brand. Media planning and buying was by WPP media agency MEC. The promotion brings to life the brand's new positioning based around the concept of generosity and highlights the quality of content that Freeview offers free from contracts and free from subscription. - mediaweek.co.uk

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Could the UK's original ITV kill Apple iTV brand? - Computer Business Review

Jason Stamper Published 01 December 2011 British broadcaster would have a strong case. Launched in 1955 to provide competition to the BBC, the broadcaster has certainly been using the three-letter acronym for long enough. The test of trademark infringement of course is whether the similarity is enough to cause customer confusion. - cbronline.com

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Ofcom - Channel 4 Schedule 9 Arrangements

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S4C is ‘secretive and arrogant’, says report - News - Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ariel, we'll miss you - Media - guardian.co.uk

Of course many publications see their ultimate future solely online, but Ariel at its best a couple of years ago was able, on a weekly basis, to select and place BBC news, policies, politics, personalities, even bereavements, into a thoughtful context. Ariel has 75 years of tradition behind it, as old as BBC television. Harvey was recruited from national newspapers by Greg Dyke in 2001 to refocus Ariel as an independent platform and voice for staffers, alienated by the John Birt producer choice era. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 26th November - 4th December

1Xtra Live is back and bigger than ever All of this year's 1Xtra Live performances will be streamed live on Red Button. Around 300 of these magnificent birds make the perilous 2,000 mile trip to spend the winter at WWT Slimbridge. - bbc.co.uk

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Charlie Brooker: There are two kinds of viewer in the world: right and wrong. Which are you? - Comment is free - The Gua

Sometimes it's more a bizarre optical illusion than a film. Photograph Rich Legg/Getty Images/Vetta Imagine, if you will, that instead of reading this garbage, you're enjoying an exciting night out at the theatre. You take your seat and, after a few minutes, the curtain rises but something's wrong. - guardian.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: Updating the BBC Complaints website

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Ariel - Switchover help scheme passes 1m mark

In the run-up to switchover in each region, the help scheme offers practical help to convert one tv set to digital. Most people are asked to contribute 40 towards the switch. The work has involved more than 500 help scheme installers driving around 6m miles to date, but chief executive of the White City-based help scheme Peter White said the 1m milestone had been reached through partnerships. - bbc.co.uk

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News - SES.com

The service currently reaches 1.9 million German TV households. As of today, an additional 1.56 million households are currently using HD in the free trial period and will have the opportunity to extend their use of the service on a paying basis in the next twelve months. Based on the very positive development of HD, SES expects to surpass the mark of one million paying customers by the end of next year. - ses.com

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James Murdoch quits boards of UK papers - as fresh scandal hits empire - Press - Media - The Independent

He remains on the editorial board of The Times, which would approve the appointment of any new editor. Mr Murdoch became executive chairman of News International in 2007 and has been called to Parliament twice to give evidence about the extent of his knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World. Bill O'Chee, a former senator with the rural-based National Party, claims the offer was made in 1998 over lunch at an upmarket Brisbane restaurant, Pier 9. - independent.co.uk

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: BBC Online Industry Briefing: Panel on Simplicity and Connected TV

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What is the licence fee for? - Comment - Broadcast

If you wanted a reminder of your uni debating society days, you needed to be at Bafta on Monday night, where boffins presented radical ideas for a BBC 10 years from now. It kicked off with former R4 boss and St Peters College master Mark Damazer arguing that it is a subjective matter of value and politics, leading to a brain-tingling debate on the definition of ideology. Peter Bazalgette addressed this in his presentation, with Channel 4 boss David Abraham subsequently asking what could you do if you could unbundle services, given that we are moving towards a world of hyper-individualisation of choice driven by the internet - broadcastnow.co.uk

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BBC cuts 'threaten existence of public service broadcasting in north-east' - Media - guardian.co.uk

She said there would also be a two-thirds cut in the BBC's local weather presenters, with many bulletins now due to be prerecorded. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook. - guardian.co.uk

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Picture Of ZTE V55 Tablet Appears Online - ITProPortal.com

The tablet has rounded corners, and other than saying that it is a CDMA tablet with Bluetooth wireless technology and will run on Sprint, there's not much else that the listing provides. The Light 10 also caught our attention, because it also includes a Freeview HD tuner, the first tablet we know of that could achieve that. It will be interesting to see whether any of the ZTE tablets actually go on sale before the end of the year, and whether they are going to be sold via retailers or through operators only. - itproportal.com

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BBC bosses: local radio DQF cuts not set in stone - News - Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Ariel - A fond farewell to BBC Manchester

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The Media UK radio pocketbook available now - James Cridland

The Media UK radio pocketbook available now Posted on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 at 949 pm. Heres where to buy the Media UK Radio Pocketbook. Part of the learning continues, with some very real logistical questions of how to send these pocketbooks sensibly through the post, when I dont really have an office, much less office staff to help send them. - james.cridland.net

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Will Hunt s dream of local TV pay off? - Markets Analysis

Hunt's Department of Culture has already had at least 140 expressions of interest. He has announced a longlist of 65 cities and regions and is set to publish a shortlist of 20 in the next few weeks. Hunt says local broadcasters can be largely funded through advertising and commercial sponsorship but the decline of regional newspapers hardly suggests there is much money in the provinces. - thisislondon.co.uk

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Buyer's Guide: The Best Media Centres - DigitalVersus

We use two separate tests the DigitalVersus test and the DivX test. We make sure that HD videos play as well as high-res photos. We also check the interface, the options available and the remote control, as well as extra features like network connectivity, Wi-Fi and the screen to make sure they're all useful and well managed. - digitalversus.com

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Replace your TV with an iPad or Android tablet and Hauppauge Broadway

I'm talking about the Hauppauge Broadway, which I spent this week testing. It's a network-attached video receiver, that encodes all incoming video feeds into H.264 and pipes them out onto your network, making them accessible through most Web browsers both for desktop and mobile OSes. So with this device, any content that isn't already available in a digital format is encoded live for you. - betanews.com

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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: What's On BBC Red Button 19th - 27th November

Thanks to 40 years of research by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a great deal is known about the returning swans. Some of the families are long established dynasties and have been coming back to the lake in the Rushy Pen for an amazing 50 years. What's more, it's possible to identify each individual swan by the pattern of yellow and black on its bill. - bbc.co.uk

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BBC - About the BBC: The BBC - it's a bit like an apple

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Freesat launches new ad as free-to-air market hots up - Advertising news - Campaign

After the cost of installation, Freesat is totally free. It is unclear what form internet-connected TV joint venture YouView's marketing will take after its marketing director Tim Hunt departed last month. Adam Eve won the YouView account in November last year. - campaignlive.co.uk

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The Press Association: Thai floods hit set-top box maker

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Why the BBC needs to listen to its own local radio stations - Telegraph

The BBC has responded by commissioning three reviews of local radio. The capacity of BBC bosses to expensively not take a decision, and then expensively not stick to it, is staggering. Of course, BBC executives in London might not be too pleased to see some of their budgets funnelled out to the provinces. - telegraph.co.uk

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BBC needs to deliver clarity - Comment - Broadcast

For all the talk about transparency, one thing DQF hasnt given us is a clear sense of where our money is being spent or not being spent. Weve seen the headline cuts of 20 across the board, but we have no idea how that breaks down when it comes to spend across or within genre. As Broadcast reported last month, BBC4 is to be stripped of its history budget. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Brands are fast becoming the new broadcasters - Comment - Broadcast

17 November, 2011 Television is losing the battle for peoples hearts and minds, says James Kirkham. It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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What Now For ITV? - 17/11/2011

I have for some time been a firm believer that Sky's pay-television model will produce copious profits in forthcoming years. It was a leviathan of the 80s and 90s, but now it is being squeezed on the one side by pay-TV and on the other by the internet. Well, the ups and downs that the business has gone through in recent years have given the naysayers plenty of ammunition. - fool.co.uk

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BBC accused over 2,000 managers - TV Radio - Media - The Independent

The corporation employs 191 staff whose job titles include the word adviser and 44 with the word strategy included. They show that as of October 7 this year there were 4,420 different job titles with 1,894 staff having the word manager in their job title. Among jobs currently advertised by the corporation are a choral manager for its choir, a client solutions executive, a commercial manager, a customer complaints manager and a research manager. - independent.co.uk

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BSkyB dismisses fears over saturation point - Business News - Yorkshire Post

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Red Bee research reveals discontent among viewers - News - Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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Switchover looms for Island’s TVs

TIME is ticking away toward digital TV switchover on the Island. Three months before analogue signals are switched off and digital broadcasting is powered up on new frequencies, Digital UK organised a tour of the new Rowridge transmitter, which is situated between Newport and Calbourne. It is the newest and most powerful television transmitter in the UK and has been re-built ahead of next years digital switchover, which is the biggest change in UK broadcasting for a generation. - iwcp.co.uk

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STV expects to miss profit targets - Media - guardian.co.uk

Taggart screened in Scotland on the STV network. STV said in the third quarter to the end of September national TV ad revenues were down by 4 year on year. Regional TV ad revenues sales made in the Scottish market fell by 18 year on year in the third quarter. - guardian.co.uk

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Digital TV problem to last for months From Oxford Mail)

Although the county went digital in September, Digital UK has confirmed some fringe households may have to wait until the switchover has completed in London before they get extra Freeview channels. The move to digital has left some residents fed up, claiming their viewing has been made worse, not better. He said the problem was intermittent but affected all channels on both televisions in their home at different times. - oxfordmail.co.uk

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BBC - The Editors: Sponsored programmes on BBC World News

The Trust has concluded that 15 programmes broadcast in our weekend schedule breached the BBC's editorial or sponsorship guidelines. The programmes concerned were acquired by the channel at low or nominal cost, and around half of them were funded or partly funded by charities, non-governmental organisations NGOs or other similar groups. The Trust found breaches of guidelines in seven programmes relating to conflict of interest the promotion of a sponsor's activities the prohibition of sponsorship for current affairs programming and the way in which funding was credited to ensure transparency for viewers. - bbc.co.uk

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DTG :: News :: Talk Talk to launch YouView trials

TalkTalk are to run 'friends and family' trials of YouView in the final quarter of this financial year, according to a financial interim results statement from the broadband provider. TalkTalk, one of the seven industry partners of YouView, also confirmed they were on track to offer a phone, broadband and TV product in Spring 2012. DTG Staff 15.11.2011 Links open in a new window. - dtg.org.uk

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BBC News - Broadcaster STV rapped for number of trailers in breaks

Regulator Ofcom said it broke a rule that limits breaks within programmes to a maximum of three minutes 50 seconds. The problem arose because STV covered up some sponsorship announcements seen by viewers in other Channel 3 regions with trailers. These announcements do not count towards the length of the break but adverts and programme trailers do. - bbc.co.uk

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TalkTalk to trial YouView - News - Broadcast

It takes just 2 minutes and offers full, instant access to the Broadcast website along with a copy of the magazine delivered every week. - broadcastnow.co.uk

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TalkTalk to begin in-house YouView trial in early 2012 - Media - guardian.co.uk

ITV programmes such as Coronation Street could be watched when YouView is launched. Broadband provider TalkTalk is to launch an in-house trial of YouView, the delayed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview, in early 2012. The company said it has spent 2m on YouView in the year to the end of March, and a further 2m in the six months to the end of September. - guardian.co.uk

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Freeview unveils £60m ad campaign to steal TV share - Marketing news - Marketing magazine

It will invest 18m over the next 12 months to support its fresh positioning based on the generosity of its offering. It will be supported in print and online through a partnership with IPC Media. Freeview, which claims it is used in 18m UK homes, has also launched an iPhone app that allows users to make themselves sound as if they have a helium-induced, high-pitched voice. - marketingmagazine.co.uk

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Apps - Radioplayer

Want to listen to the radio on your smartphone If you use the Chrome browser, add our neat Radioplayer extension. Listen to Radioplayer while youre on Facebook. - radioplayer.co.uk

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Vint Cerf: The government is going overboard in Internet copyright control - VentureBeat

When Bob and I started writing the specs for the Internet in 1973 Only a handful of people can start a sentence anything like that. Today, Vint Cerf, one of the godfathers of the Internet, stood on a stage at the Google campus and addressed attendees of Atmosphere, the companys cloud computing event. With his snow-white beard and three-piece suit, Cerf looked like something out of a Jules Verne novel, subtly different from the Brooks Brothers army he faced. - venturebeat.com

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Pure Highway 300Di gives you drive time DAB radio - November - 2011 - Which? News

The updated version, the Highway 300Di, claims to feature best-in-class digital reception by using an external aerial rather than the simple wire antenna - as featured on the original Highway. Professionally installed Pure has been one of the leading brands in table-top digital radiosfor several years, and in 2007 the Pure Highway was launched. This time around Pure has teamed up with Halfords to offer a professionally installed solution to in-car DAB radio. - which.co.uk

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How the BBC's HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why - Technology - guardian.co.uk

The locks would work by scrambling some of the information used to decode video, and in order to get the descrambling key, manufacturers would have to submit to the rules of the DTLA, an offshore consortium led by Intel. There were other important problems, of course the proposal violated the EU common market by breaking foreign TV receivers and it meant that popular free/open source receivers and recorders would be frozen out of the UK device market. Of these, 432 of those came from individual licence payers, and 426 opposed the BBC's proposal. - guardian.co.uk

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