Tag: BBC

Few sporting events are more deeply rooted in tradition than Wimbledon, where applause is always kept to a polite murmur and staid dress codes are strictly enforced. This year, though, the world's most celebrated tennis tournament will be filmed in 3-D for the first time, with the semi-final and championship matches being broadcast in movie theaters around the world. Sony will produce the ...

Tech-related comedy is usually painfully awkward (e.g., any number of 'I'm a Mac' spoofs), but the BBC's sketch comedy 'The One Ronnie' may have pulled it off in a recent skit. Comedians Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbet delightfully take on the tech industry's obsession with fruit, and throw in a few dongle, Windows and Microsoft jokes for good measure. ...

The trick to spurring online conversations, increasing your followers on Twitter and generally drawing attention to yourself online: be a jerk. British and Slovenian researchers have found that provocative, negative comments, or "flames," constitute the engine that drives successful social networking. The researchers monitored comments and conversations on both the BBC and Digg, using algorithms ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola's new ad for Stella takes on a '60s-era gadget-flooded bachelor pad. [From: YouTube] The team behind the BBC iPlayer opted for a volume bar that goes all the way to 11. [From: The Daily What] This DIY connector merges your iPad and iPhone, ...

If It Was My Home brought the tragedy of the BP oil spill to your backyard by laying an outline of the environmental disaster over a Google Map of your own neighborhood. Dimensions, an experiment created in partnership with the BBC, may have been conceived before the debut of the oil spill-specific site, but they use the same trick to put world and historical events into perspective. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The BBC asked readers how 3.5-inch floppy disks are still in use today, drawing responses of beer mats, ATM machine programming, musical equipment, sewing machines ...

Americans might be on the fence about whether or not health care is a right or a privilege, but they seem to be in agreement with the vast majority of the world's population when it comes to the question of Internet access being a fundamental right. An international survey, conducted by the BBC World Service, found that 79-percent of respondents thought that having access to the Web was a basic ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 'Avatar' may have been the most hyped 3-D movie of all time, but the visual experience for moviegoers in the United States actually paled in comparison to the interactive ride South Koreans can enjoy. The nation has established several 4-D theatres which provide "moving seats, smells of explosives, sprinkling water, laser lights, and ...

If it looks like a BBC app, reads like a BBC app, and quacks like a BBC app, proverbial logic would dictate that it's gotta be a real BBC app, right? Well.... AdAge reports today about a new swarm of paid iPhone apps that market themselves as "readers" for newspapers and media outlets like the New York Times and the BBC, even though they aren't actually affiliated with or officially licensed ...

The BBC World Service Trust, the charity arm of the international broadcast company, is preparing to launch a service in Bangladesh that will offer lessons in English via cell phone. Called Janala, the service, slated to go live Thursday, started accepting subscriptions this weekend, and the BBC was surprised by the rush of customers. Sara Chamberlain, the manager of the service, told the ...

A three-year research project at the University of Ulster could revolutionize the clothing industry, according to BBC News. Researchers are studying ways to equip clothing with electronic devices that could possibly monitor heart rates or automatically adjust the thermostat of a home. Professor Bryan Scotney told BBC News that the technology could greatly improve the lives of elderly folks who ...

Ugh, the online thugs are at it again. Last week, YouTube executives have removed several videos that were made in tribute to the infamous Columbine school shootings of 1999 and the two boys who perpetrated them, the BBC reported. In a recent investigative report, the BBC found that a small but thriving Columbine-obsessed community, both in the United States and Britain, was responsible for ...

If you're planning on buying into a new HD set and/or a Blu-ray player this holiday season, the BBC is packaging up a six-disc Blu-ray set that you'll want to check out. 'The BBC Earth Collection' combines the 'Planet Earth: The Complete Series' and 'Earth: The Biography' like so much peanut butter and chocolate -- if you're getting a whole new TV and Blu-ray player setup, it's a great way to show ...

Online role-playing games are often seen to be detrimental for children -- at best a waste of time, and, at worst, an addictive scourge -- but a new study is showing that this may not necessarily be the case. The study calls one such world "powerful and engaging" for children aged six to 12. The online world, hosted by BBC and called 'Adventure Rock,' is a place designed for kids to go and ...

The days of the Weekly Top 40 list dictating the hottest properties in music are long gone. Now hot bands come and go almost daily, and the BBC has come up with its own replacement for those venerable pop lists of yore. Called the Sound Index, it's basically a system that trawls over popular online social networks, like MySpace and Bebo, and compiles lists of who's being talked about the most. ...