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Netflix, in its battle with Amazon Prime and, more recently, Redbox Instant, continues to add new content. Now the company is bringing some of the BBC Worldwide content to its streaming platform. Elizabeth Bradley,vice president of content acquisition at Netflix, made the announcement this morning -- "We're thrilled to let Netflix members in the US know that we're introducing three new
There's a pretty good chance that if you are a 40+ British geek, the mere mention of "Elite" will roll back the years to hours of gameplay in front of a BBC Model B, flying a wireframe starship around an almost limitless universe. Trading, fighting, arms-dealing, slavery, whatever it took to get respect and the coveted Elite status. Even now,
Business intelligence company Experian Hitwise recently released the top 10 searched for brands in the UK. Top of the pile came internet giants Facebook, YouTube and eBay with four British brands showing; catalogue store Argos, fashion shop Next, news and media organisation the BBC and tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail. Here's the full top 10. Facebook YouTube eBay Amazon Argos
Earlier in the week, Microsoft gave the Xbox a big push in the race for HDMI 1 with Steve Ballmer announcing Xbox TV and partnerships with over 40 content providers. Jeffrey Powers has already covered the main announcement on GNC but I wanted to add a little bit of UK spin. In the UK, additional programming boxes such as the
Microsoft announces the partners to their XBox Live TV initiative. With a new way to remote control through the Kinect and the ability to play games, will this be the Over the Top Television solution to beat in 2012?
The BBC is embracing the post-PC world with a reworked homepage at beta.bbc.co.uk. Here's what it looks like on my TouchPad. The black arrows on either side slide the screen through three other views. It's a little bit reminiscent of how the BBC's iPlayer displays programmes on my Bluray player, which isn't entirely unsurprising. Some of the other features, such
This year's BBC Reith lectures came to a close today with the last of three lectures on Securing Freedom, presented by Eliza Manningham-Buller. The name may mean nothing to you but she was the Director-General of Britain's Security Service, aka MI5, between October 2002 and April 2007, and she reflects on 9/11, the wars in the Middle East and how