The Health Protection Agency is going to examine WiFi networks (BBC link) to see if they are going to affect our health. Are they also going to examine TV, radio and mobile phone broadcasting stations as the transmitters on those babies reaches for dozens of miles rather than the hundred or so feet of the WiFi transmitters. And we’ve been exposed for much of our life to TV and radio transmissions.
Meanwhile the BBC has inked a deal with wifi firm The Cloud to on the condition of “platform neutrality”, including a download service. They claim to have launched on Windows in order to get the most people. Funny – if they’d used a platform neutral protocol then it would have reached everyone. Youtube managed it quite well.
I especially love this bit where they defend their use of Windows-only proprietary DRM:
The BBC says the DRM offered by Microsoft – which is not available for Linux and has not been licensed from Microsoft by Apple for Macs – is the only solution at present.
Bought and sold. The BBC. By Microsoft.