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

A lot of people have trouble with technology at some point and the question is what do they do about it?

This is where a new service called Virgin Digital Help may be able to help and, what’s more, the first thirty minutes are free.

The help desk is a straight forward, no nonsense phone support service, that promises to be jargon free and should be able to help out consumers with a fix for most computer and other technology based problems.

As an incentive for users to sign up for the service, anyone joining before the end of March will be given thirty minutes worth of help completely free of charge.

Those who qualify will be emailed a voucher that can be used at any time over the next six months.

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Free tech help from Virgin Media

Finally, it seems that the sale of ITV’s Friends Reunited will be allowed to go ahead following an investigation by the Competition Commission.

The Commission had been asked to check out the deal by the Office of Fair Trading.

The agreement is that the entire Friends Reunited site will be sold to Brightsolid, the owner of findmypast.com and 1911cenus.com, for £25 million, making the group a force to be reckoned with in the genealogy industry.

It seems that the competition commission found that there might be a slight overlapping in the service provided by the firm, but not enough to prevent the sale from going through on the grounds of conflict of interest.

The merging of these three main bodies will in fact make life easier for people searching out their family history.

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ITV Friends sale gets the go ahead

Netgem (www.netgem.com) a leading provider of IPTV technology and services to Telecom operators worldwide has announced their results for 2009 and their outlook for the year ahead.
Revenue and business performance
2009 saw a sharp growth in revenues at Netgem (+46%) to €146.2 million.
This performance included sustained sales in Q4 2009 (€34.3 million), slightly down [...]

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