The BBC has put together a report showing how easy it is to create a piece of malware to infect a smartphone with.
Mark Ward, a technology reporter, managed to create a piece of malware hidden by the front of a game of noughts and crosses.
The app went through the smartphone owner’s data, pilfering contact details [...]

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BBC investigation highlights smartphone malware issues

Auntie Beeb seems to be getting forgetful in her old age, losing laptops and smartphones at a rate of knots TV license payer’s can ill-afford to subsidise these days.
In the last two years, it seems that Beeb staff have managed to lose – or have stolen – some 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17 [...]

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BBC loses laptops and mobiles to the tune of £240,000

It seems that the government has turned its attention to the folks who have taken to watching TV on their computer to avoid paying for a TV licence.

Currently, if you watch live simultaneously broadcast programmes on your computer, you need a TV licence.

However, those who watch the Beeb’s iPlayer catch-up TV service aren’t required to stump up the licence fee – although it seems that may be about to change to some extent.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Andrew Marr Show that times and technology are changing swiftly, but he rejected the idea of a PC based licence fee. He did, however, say that an assessment of the situation was necessary.

Apparently Hunt will be talking to Auntie Beeb about what sort of payment model they could possibly employ for online viewers, with The Daily Mirror mentioning the idea of a pay-per-view scheme.

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The Beeb to charge for web TV?

A lot has come out since the review of the BBC and it seems that the corporation has learned from the errors that is has made.

The key to the survival of the BBC comes down to just one thing, money!

The BBC is funded through the TV Licence fee, which is effectively a TV Tax and these days taxpayers want their money’s worth.

According to the BBC Trust, it is willing to allow the National Audit Office (NAO) regular access to the accounts of the corporation in order to offer greater transparency, something that seems to have been missing in the past.

The changes go even further, with one of the BBC Trustees, Jeremy Peat, stating that the BBC needs an auditor.

There is no reason why the NAO could not take on such a role.

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BBC happy for NAO to audit

Once again the BBC iPlayer has been setting the pace for all catch-up and on-demand TV services, with an amazing 116.4 million requests for digital TV and radio services through the platform.

It is not a record breaking month, as January set the record with a staggering 120.3 million requests, but then again February is a shorter month with just twenty eight days to play with.

According to the BBC, it was the live edition of the soap Eastenders which helped the iPlayer during February.

In fact during that particular week there were 18.9 million requests made through the iPlayer service.

Requests from the Apple iPhone accounted for around four per cent of all usage.

The Nintendo Wii had a record making month too, with requests lifting from one per cent to four per cent.

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Record figures for the iPlayer