Firework displays are good, but even if you spend £30 on an air-bomb battery of some kind, it's all over in a few seconds and the impression is rarely lasting. If you invest £10,000,000 on an event, you can bet your life that it will give you memories that will …
Read More »BBC renovates red button service
The BBC has announced a new coat of paint for its red button service, bringing a “connected experience triggered from your TV.” The update includes a newly designed dashboard as well as extra features that utilise internet connections through smart TVs. Apparently the main aim for the broadcaster was to …
Read More »BBC to enter free music streaming market
The BBC is planning to enter the music streaming game, with a free to play service similar to iPlayer. Known as Playlister, the service won't offer exactly the same thing as Spotify and its contemporaries, but will stream hundreds of thousands of BBC recordings from the network's TV and radio …
Read More »BBC.co.uk outages – is it ready for the Olympics?
While it may be one of the world's finest and most respected news gathering and broadcasting operations, the BBC has never designed, set up and run a web site for the Olympics. KitGuru notices when things don't go 100% smoothly. With just 15 days to go, the world plus dog …
Read More »BBC Morals get KitGuru Lite focus
Do you consider yourself a moral person? The combined licence fee of the great British viewing public has been squeezed tightly, and enough juice has flown for the creation of a web site that's dedicated to the question “Are you moral?”. We turn the VideoScope on this issue with the …
Read More »Newzbin 2 gets blocked by BT: the first step
They closed the first Newzbin site and now the movie industry is out to close the second generation of the site, all to stop users from getting access to free movies, games and tv shows. A High Court judge has ruled in the favour of the movie industry and has …
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