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Auntie's hopeless online dream.

Offers a look at the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) consideration of launching a low-cost personal computer terminal with bundled broadband access. Opinion of the author that this could change both the commercial market and how the British public consumes digital media; Comments made by A...

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Publicado en:New Statesman Vol. 133; no. 4704; pp. 31 - 32
Autor principal: Corrick, Kathryn
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: New Statesman Ltd. 9/6/2004
Materias:
BBC Microcomputer
Corporate growth
Beeb Ventures (Company)
British Broadcasting Corp.
Computers
Broadband communication systems
Highfield, Ashley
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Sumario:Offers a look at the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) consideration of launching a low-cost personal computer terminal with bundled broadband access. Opinion of the author that this could change both the commercial market and how the British public consumes digital media; Comments made by Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media; Reference to Beeb Ventures, launched in 1999, which aimed to capitalize commercially on the BBC's program brands; Discussion of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project in 1980.