Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2012
Posts (14)
What's on BBC Red Button: 29 September - 6 October 2012
6 Music Live As part of 6 Music Celebrates... Live Music, we are hosting a week of very special live performances. From Monday 1st to Friday 5th October 2012, the hallowed BBC Maida Vale studios in London will be home to radio shows from Lauren Laverne featuring live music and chat from s...
Building Connected TV Apps
I'm Roux Joubert, Head of the TV & Mobile Platforms team based in the BBC's new offices in MediaCityUK, Salford. I am privileged to lead an amazing team responsible for building some cutting edge and award winning products, who brought you the BBC iPlayer on TV and mobile, as well as News, Spo...
What's on BBC Red Button: 22-29 September 2012
Mumford and Sons Mumford and Sons Mumford and Sons present the first of Fearne Cotton's Live Lounge specials from the BBC's Studios in Maida Vale, as part of Radio 1's Massive Month of Live Music.
New BBC Media Player for Android phones and tablets
Today the BBC's mobile technical teams have begun rolling out a new way of securely playing video and audio content on Android phones and tablets. It's called BBC Media Player and we are starting to use it with the mobile view of the BBC's iPlayer website. Next week we plan to release a new vers...
A summer of Research & Development
A round up of what BBC R&D have been writing about on our blog over the summer.
CBBC Connected Studio: 10 problems to solve
Mobiles, tablets and connected TVs are here. They form an ecosystem of web connected devices that provide the potential for amazing experiences. The ability to share an experience across devices brings great possibilities, but also responsibilities. As part of its brief the CBBC Connected st...
What's on BBC Red Button: 15-22 September 2012
BBC Philharmonic Presents: A James Bond Special Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo Watch Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo on the Red Button presenting not one, but two James Bond specials, featuring the greatest Bond film songs with the help of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and guest vocalists Re...
Connected Studio: UX&D brief in context
A preview into some of the thinking that has gone into the brief for the UX&D events - as well as a little bit of wider context for the work we currently do.
BBC Blue Room: ten things we learnt at IFA 2012
The BBC Blue Room team was back at IFA 2012 last week. For those of you who haven't heard of the BBC Blue Room or indeed IFA, let me explain. The Blue Room is the BBCs consumer electronics lab, based in London W12, in a room unsurprisingly filled with a lot of the latest consumer electronics. ...
What's on BBC Red Button: 8-15 September 2012
Last Night of the Proms 2011's Last Night of the Proms at Hyde Park Watch Last Night of the Proms concerts from around the UK, live on Red Button. Excerpts from these four concerts will be available to watch from 7.30pm on Saturday 8 September: . Hyde Park, London. Presented by Ter...
