News
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 10:47
Chris Hinds
Senior Software Engineer, BBC News
The background behind the re-engineering of thousands of BBC World Service pages.
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Tuesday 22 September 2020, 09:49
Lloyd Shepherd
Head of Product, BBC Sounds
The latest on the international availability of the radio and podcast app for mobile and the rollout of the app for Connected TVs.
Wednesday 30 October 2019, 08:18
Abdallah al-Salmi
Strategy Analyst, BBC News
Abdallah al-Salmi explains the reasoning behind making the BBC World Service news website available on the Tor Network.
Monday 26 March 2018, 16:16
Robin Pembrooke
Director, News Product & Systems
Robin Pemborke, Director of News Products and Systems reviews the past year's achievements with the World Service.
Monday 25 September 2017, 14:47
Neil Doughty
Executive Product Owner, W2020
The new W2020 sites are the first from BBC News to be served over HTTPS by default, which we consider to be an important move for a number of reasons.
Tuesday 03 January 2017, 08:01
The World Service is an extraordinary and unique organisation; it is the world’s largest international broadcaster, reaching over 320 million people every week on Radio, TV and Online in 29 different languages.
Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:59
BBC News Labs
BBC News Labs and BBC Digital Development have produced an innovative tool called ALTO which assists multilingual journalists in reversioning news video content. ALTO combines a number of language technologies to allow a single language journalist to generate multilingual voice-overs.
Monday 21 December 2015, 09:30
We have launched an online pilot service that offers continuous video play in different languages to our global audiences and we are trying out the latest language technology: machine translation and computer-generated voices.
Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:41
Marlon Parker
Founder, RLabs
BBC Minute CatchUP is a player that sits on your web browser and provides a 60 second news bulletin every half an hour. It’s the first pilot to come out of the Connected Studio / World Service partnership programme and is available to try on BBC Taster.
Wednesday 07 October 2015, 15:05
Google AMP is a new open and shared, web standard for publishing content pages, optimized for mobile consumption. Google have announced the initiative today and the BBC together with around 20 global publishers have been involved in the design and definition of the approach.
