BBC News mistakes Halo UNSC logo for UN
Tom Phillips, Eurogamer:
The blooper occured in the background of last Thursday’s One O’Clock News, in which presenter Sophie Raworth discussed the real-life United Nations.
But the logo shown on-sceen was for the UNSC – Halo’s fictitious United Nations Space Command.
The story has a screenshot and a video. This absolutely happened.
iPlayer for iPad coming to US later this year
The Guardian’s Apps Blog:
BBC Worldwide is launching its global iPlayer service on Thursday, via an iPad app that will be made available in 11 countries in Western Europe. The US, Canada and Australia will follow later this year, as part of what is intended to be a one-year pilot.
The service will offer a limited amount of content for free, supported by pre-roll ads and sponsorship, but its core business model is subscription, with users paying €6.99 (£6.14) a month or €49.99 a year. The 11 launch countries are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Republic of Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
Why haven’t they done something like this sooner?