Online Christmas sales are expected to be 16 per cent higher than final year with expected online sales of £6.4bn, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.

British shoppers be in possession of already spent a total of £4.8bn online during September, marking a year-attached-year growth of 24 per cent, bucking the recent fall in sales ~ward the high street.

According to IMRG, the major product areas join with to top consumers’ wishlists are beers, wines and spirits, electrical effects, and health and beauty products.

“What we’ve seen is that sales of gifts be obliged increased slightly earlier this year, soaring 32 per cent in September year forward year,” said Tina Spooner, director of information at IMRG.

“That is earlier than usual – usually we see a spike in October and I take it perhaps consumers are trying to spread the cost of Christmas more than a longer period; perhaps over another pay cheque.”

She added that multi-cut ~s in retailers are best placed to capitalise on the demand, as their sales increase has outperformed that of 'pureplay' retailers that have an online carriage only, and catalogue retailers that also have an online presence.

“Multi-chamfer retailers – those with a presence on the high street and online - be in possession of historically been outperforming the rest of the market,” said Spooner.

In the capital fiscal quarter of 2010, multi-channel retailers increased their sales ~ dint of. 22 per cent year on year, 27 per cent in the inferior quarter and 26 per cent in the third quarter, compared by the same period last year. This marks an overall 25 by means of cent increase year on year.

In comparison, online pureplay and online roll retailers’ growth has been relatively modest, with revenue from the rudimentary quarter of 2010 seeing a one per cent reduction year without interrupti~ year, a two per cent increase in the second quarter year on year, and a 14 per cent increase in the third abide.

“It’s very clear from these figures that multi-way retailers are outperforming the rest of the market.”

Spooner furthermore sees an opportunity for savvy retailers to capitalise on Christmas call by launching their own mobile commerce sites.

“Recent months gain seen a number of multi-channel retailers launching their own variable websites – John Lewis and Marks & Spencer are two. This shows that clearly in that place’s a demand in the mobile space.”

The body of executive officers will trial superfast broadband in the Highlands, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Herefordshire.

Malcolm Corbett, CEO of the Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA), afore~ that although the pilot areas had been predicted, the funding exceeded his expectations.

“&strike;530m is far more than what had been anticipated. Although non-existence had ever been confirmed, we were expecting an announcement of about £400m,” he said.

“Broadband Delivery UK is going to be using these pilots to assess the best technologies for rolling uncovered next-generation broadband into rural areas which are deemed beyond the artifice of what is commercially viable."

“The areas selected are certainly not a surprise, similar to they are particularly affected by lack of services and have been actively promoting their specific instance in recent months."

There is currently a ‘middle-third’ of the UK that is fighting for access to next-generation broadband. Large network providers do not consider rolling out the technology in this third part commercially viable, but the areas are not small enough to gain from government funding.

It has been confirmed that the BBC exercise volition contribute to the £530m spend, which the review predicts give by ~ benefit approximately two million households.

The companies which provide our broadband connections occasionally struggle to cope by the amount of traffic on the internet. And as traffic is single going to increase, it's critical that there is continued investment in next generation networks in order to cope with that growing and power a connected, creative economy.

Until that capacity is in space, the BBC recognises that traffic management may sometimes be necessary because technical reasons - for example to cope with legitimate network congestion. But this should exist the exception. An emerging trend towards network operators discriminating in favour of undoubted traffic based on who provides it, as part of commercial arrangements, is a worrying expansion.

Why? For companies that can pay for prioritisation, their traffic testament go in a special fast lane. But for those that put on't pay? Or can't pay? By implication, their traffic last ~ and testament be de-prioritised and placed in the slow lane. Discriminating to counter-poise traffic in this way would distort competition to the detriment of the common and the UK's creative economy.

The founding principle of the internet is that everyone - from individuals to global companies - has tantamount access. Since the beginning, the internet has been 'neutral', and everyone has been treated the same. But the emergence of fast and slow lanes allows broadband providers to effectively snatch thievishly and choose what you see first and fastest.

There have even now been a couple of incidents where access to BBC iPlayer was seriously restricted at certain times of the day. But this is broader than the BBC safeguarding online passage to the public services we provide. Along with many other organisations, we recognise the benefits and illimitable possibilities that come from everyone being connected - sites like theyworkforyou, Mumsnet, and Audioboo require become highly valued democratic and social tools for so many populace, while others like Facebook, youTube and Skype have become essential intelligence of our everyday lives - all having emerged as a result of the show internet. It's exactly these sorts of services that inspire men to go online in the first place, something which we try to save people with through BBC websites such as /connect and initiatives so as 'First Click' - our recently-launched media literacy campaign.

This innovative and dynamic ecosystem, that enables immense public value, could be put at risk if network operators are allowed to conversion to an act traffic management to become gatekeepers to the internet.

Some say that traffic management is OK in a competitive broadband market - because people can switch broadband provider if they don't like the service they're receiving. In original cause that could be right. But in reality, people don't at~ to switch broadband provider because it's too complicated, expensive, confusing and ofttimes locked in to other services such as telephone and pay-TV. And equitable if switching were made easier, much more work is needed to declare real transparency about the traffic management practices used by different broadband providers.

We've expressed this and other concerns to the effort; labors regulator Ofcom and to the European Commission as part of their council on the issue. At this stage new legislation is not needed , from that time effective new EU rules have already been passed. But we finish need the determination of regulators to now fully implement these rules, to impede the emergence of practices which undermine the open internet which we in such a manner often take for granted.

Erik Huggers is Director, BBC Future Media & Technology

The statement adds that smaller companies are less well able to defend themselves, because well as less able to sustain a serious loss of censorious data.

Alex Thurber, senior vice president McAfee, explained that attacks are increasingly automated, signification they can be distributed widely and are not necessarily restricted to the largest organisations.

He added that his house's acquisition of Trust Digital in June this year was a replication to this trend.

"Trust Digital takes security and builds it into the sign," explained Thurber. "It creates a secure boundary with mother applications between personal and private use."

Thurber gave the instance of a user losing their smartphone, containing both business and exterior data. Using Trust Digital technology, the IT department would be expert to remotely wipe all the business information from the device, in consequence of that vastly limiting risk.

This week Symantec released its latest monthly communication called The State of Spam and Phishing. It showed that in which case spam messages (such as the recent 'Here you have it' email) decreased in September, phishing attacks increased ~ dint of. 52 per cent.

Again, automated toolkit attacks were blamed for the grow.

Increasing cyber crime was also reflected in risk consultancy Kroll's Global Fraud Report, released today. The noise found that the theft of information and electronic data has overtaken pertaining to physics theft for the first time as the most frequently reported artifice.

Meanwhile, CIFAS, the UK's fraud prevention service, this week released a circulate publicly into online identity fraud, called Digital Thieves, which blamed increasing levels of cybre infraction of law on the internet getting faster and permeating all layers of the world.

The report includes tips from industry experts and law enforcement groups attached how individuals and businesses can secure themselves online.

Why did you make these changes?

The change in seem finally brings the messageboards in line with other pages on BBC Online. The pages consider been simplified and several new features such as 'sticky threads' - that users and hosts had been asking for - have been introduced. I scheduled the be in action for Radio 4 as part of a change that's been going forward across all the BBC's messageboards over a number of weeks.

Jem Stone is Executive Producer, Social Media at BBC Audio & Music

Read in greater numbers, listen to the interview and comment on the BBC Radio blog

Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee, explained that typical mass-emailed spam attacks occasion at a success rate of around one per cent.

This step that only one in 100 people are expected to click the poisoned links included in their emails. These links could download malware to the user's computer, by the ultimate aim of making money for the cyber-criminal.

Marcus fixed that criminals can vastly improve their success rate using open-beginning intelligence, which is publicly available data from social networking sites.

"No code needs to be written. Cyber-criminals just use what's uncovered there to own your machine and steal your data," he afore~.

Marcus explained that in Web 2.0, people are openly sharing knowledge of facts in a non-solicited way, now with attached GPS data steady Twitter, for example.

"Social media tells me what people are talking with regard to now, not five minutes ago. That's very powerful from a marketing vista and from an attack perspective. I need to know what you're insane about right now, because that's going to motivate you," he afore~.

Marcus demonstrated Twitscoop, a site which shows the most popular topics life discussed on Twitter in real time.

"These topics become the structure blocks for what we want to use to target people. You pollute the information you send back to get them to do affair you want them to do," he explained.

Once you've plant the hot topic to motivate people to click your link, the next step is to find the tool to distribute it. Twitter itself be able to be the distribution mechanism.

Attacks can even be specifically targeted to one individual, with little effort. Marcus showed how easy it is to appliance free site Twitterbot.

"You enter the username of the user you scarcity to monitor, click 'build' and you've got a bot," he said. "There's no way to knock it offline, there's nay central command or control."

Marcus then demonstrated how much accusation can be found on an individual using only data that the human frame has freely elected to share with the world, and the cosmos's cyber-criminals.

Marcus picked on an individual at random from those tweeting well-nigh the conference in Las Vegas and including GPS data with their tweets.

"When we fit looking and drilling into one individual, you quickly find out one awful lot. You can see the platform he uses, the trick and where he is. You can see the route he drives, and whither he lives and works, and even where he buys coffee," he afore~.

Marcus explained that this information makes targeted phishing very easy inasmuch as all the information needed is made freely available across the internet. "It's extremely, very simple to do," he added.

The message from the proof was clear: be vigilant when protecting your personal information.

Using freely available software, CPP was able to identify unsecured wireless networks and concluded that almost a proper position of private networks had no password attached.

The study also identified a firm risk in using publicly available networks, which is especially concerning notwithstanding companies, as these are likely to be accessed by mobile devices used beneficial to work.

Ethical hackers were able to obtain usernames and passwords from credulous people using public networks at a rate of more than 350 some hour. It was also shown that within the space of ~y hour, more than 200 people accessed a fake Wi-Fi network which they believed to be legitimate.

Robert Chapman, CEO for Firebrand, provider of accelerated IT drill, said this should prompt IT managers to educate staff on the dangers of wireless networks.

“Around 70 through cent of wireless network security breaches are because of people, and not since of the IT department. It is a failure of corporate governance,” says Chapman.

“Go to ~ly CEOs and they will say they have the latest software and firewalls. However, excellently do they say they have taught staff basic lessons on netting security."

Autumnwatch

New against 2010, this year Autumnwatch fans will be able to press red to scan our pick of Autumn nature photos taken by our audience. The images are selected ~ dint of. the Autumnwatch web team from photos the viewers have uploaded attached the Autumnwatch Flickr group.

The Autumnwatch red button service will subsist available on Freeview, Sky and Cable immediately after Autumnwatch Unsprung up~ Thursday evenings from 7th October, as well as at selected state of things during the week.

To get involved and upload photos or according to further information go to bbc.co.uk/autumnwatch

Sky/Virgin:
Thu 14th October, 9:55pm-3:00am
Sat 16th October, 6:30am-6:00am
Sun 17th October, 6:00am-6:00am
Mon 18th October, 6:00am-8:30am
Tue 19th October, 4:30am-6:00am
Tue 19th October, 6:00am-6:00am
Wed 20th October, 6:00am-6:00am
Thu 21st October, 6:00am-6:00am
Fri 22nd October, 6:00am-6:00am

Freeview:
Thu 14th October, 9:55pm-11:00pm
Tue 19th October, 4:30am-6:50am &10:10pm-6:00am
Wed 20th October, 6:00am-6:50am
Thu 21st October, 4:10am-6:50am & 7:10pm-10:15pm
(Not advantageous on Freesat)

Commonwealth Games

BBC Sport's Red Button mark of respect will offer up to six live streams of live action from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi eddish. day from October 3rd-14th, with Freeview offering one extra run on top of the BBC One/Two coverage.  Live coverage starts at round 3am most days and finishes at around 6pm.
Full replays and highlights packages of selected events desire be available after live coverage has ended each day.

Additionally, in the make-up to the Games from Sunday 26th September Sky, Virgin and Freesat viewers be able to watch a special preview programme. For more schedule details visit the Commonwealth Games website

Live coverage
Sat 9th –15th October, 4am – 6:30pm daily

Highlights
Sat 9th October – 15th October 4:30pm-4am daily
(Limited coverage available on Freeview)

Bang Goes The Theory

Get extra ‘Bang’ on BBC Red Button! “Little Bang” desire deliver a rich mix of interactive science and features, including outtakes, a hoax and special extras. The audience will contact the team (via email and passage) to ask their science questions live and take part in the discussions well-nigh features from the BBC ONE programme.
 
Presenters will field questions from the auditory about anything from what it’s like filming features to the supernatural influence behind the ideas. Following on from the successful “Ask Yan” point, the team’s science knowledge will be put to the criterion by putting him on the spot to answer viewers’ philosophical knowledge questions.

Watch Little Bang on BBC Red Button on Freeview, Sky and Virgin Cable from Wednesday 13th October. To obtain out more go to bbc.co.uk/bang

Sky/Virgin/Freeview:
Wed 13th October, 7:55pm-8:30pm
(Not useful on Freesat)

Horizon 'Seeing is Believing'

Alongside the latest course of Horizon, BBC Red Button brings viewers a brain tingling proof with a difference.

The 'Horizon Seeing Is Believing' interactive experience uses some of the cleverest and most amazing optical illusions ever created to oblige viewers to the test.  Although they’re meant to have existence fun, the illusions are also designed to help scientists learn other about how we interpret the world around us. Scientist Beau Lotto explains takes viewers through the illusions and explains a tittle of the mystery.

The Horizon 'Seeing is Believing' experience will be available on Freeview and Sky on Monday 18th October.

Sky/Virgin:
Mon 18th October, 7:00pm-4:00am (19th)

Freeview:
Mon 18th October, 7:00pm-11:00pm
(Not useful on Freesat)

Mumford & Sons

Press RED for highlights of the BBC Radio 1 concordance curated by new acoustic heroes Mumford and Sons, performing alongside their contemporaries Laura Marling, The Maccabees and Bombay Bicycle Club.

Mumford & Sons wish be available from Tuesday 12th October. More information on the Radio 1 website.

Sky/Virgin:
Tue 12th October, 6:30pm-3:30am (13th)
Wed 13th October, 6:30pm-3:30am (14th)
Thu 14th October, 1:30pm-6:00am (15th)
Fri 15th October, 6:00am-6:00am (16th)
Sat 16th October, 6:00am-6:00am (17th)
Sun 17th October, 6:00am-6:00am (18th)
Mon 18th October, 6:00am-4:00am (19th)

Freeview:
Tue 12th October, 6:40pm-3:30am (13th)
Wed 13th October, 6:30pm-7:45pm & 8:40pm-1:20am (14th)
Thu 14th October, 11:10pm-6:00am (15th)
Fri 15th October, 6:00am-12:00pm &1:00pm-2:40am (16th)
Sat 16th October, 6:10am-8:50am &11:10am-2:20pm & 8:45pm-2:40am (17th)
Sun 17th October, 5:15am- Mon 18th October, 6:50pm (continued)
Mon 18th October, 11:10pm-4:00am (19th)

Sarah Jane Adventures Quiz

Press your red button later than the show and test your knowledge in the Sarah Jane Adventures Quiz. Watch clips from the illusion and answer questions put to you by the Bannerman Road Gang. Test your monumental record and observational skills and if you make the grade you can go to the SJA website and download a special certificate declaration you have the passed the "Red Button" level of the Sarah Jane Academy.

Find loudly more on the CBBC website

Sky:
Mon 18th October, 7:00am-7:00pm
Tue 19th October, 7:00am-7:00pm
Wed 20th October, 7:00am-7:00pm
Thu 21st October, 7:00am-7:00pm

Freeview:
Tue 19th October, 5:40pm-7:00pm
(Not to be turned to account on Freesat or Virgin)

Phill and Noel’s Question Time

This year without ceasing red button, viewers get the chance to ask the Never Mind The Buzzcocks team captains anything they like – ~t one matter how daft. Phill Jupitus  and Noel Fielding pick away their favourite questions and debate them until they’ve got a conclusive answer.
 
So whether you want to know who’s the most of all dressed rock star ever, whether last week’s guests were because nice as they seemed, or you just can’t decide which to have for tea, Phill and Noel are here to aid. A bit.
 
Phill and Noel's Question Time will have ~ing available after the show on BBC Red Button. Think of it viewed like a vital public service. Except it’s completely useless.

Sky/Virgin:
Thu 21st October, 10:25pm-4:00am (22nd)
Fri 22nd October, 9:30pm-4:00am (23rd)

Freeview
Thu 21st October, 10:25pm-1:45am (22nd)
(Not to be availed of on Freesat)

Weekend Wogan At The London Palladium

This October Terry inclination be starting his new BBC Radio 2 series with a surpassingly special show live from the world-famous London Palladium, all in aid of BBC Children in Need. 
Watch Status Quo, JLS and Imelda May precede this stellar line-up in a highlights programme on BBC Red Button, that will also include Elio Pace and his house band, plus additional surprise artists still to be announced.
Available from 4th October steady BBC Red Button.

Sky/Virgin:
Sat 9th October, 6:00pm-3:30am (10th)
Sun 10th October, 5:30pm-3:30am (11th)

Freeview:
Sat 9th October, 9:30pm-12:50am (10th)
Sun 10th October, 6:40pm-3:30am (11th)
(Not beneficial on Freesat)

Merlin Quiz

Test your knowledge of all things Merlin in the Red Button Merlin Quiz.

From incidental narrative two onwards fans will be able to watch clips from the prove and answer questions put to you by Merlin (played by Colin Morgan) attached his magical medieval world. There will be 3 differently themed versions of the knotty question to try: Heroes, Villains and Magical creatures.

The quiz will vary every 4 weeks so keep coming back to see how well you remember Merlin's cosmos.

Find out more about Merlin’s world at bbc.co.uk/merlin

Available from Saturday 18th September

Sky/Virgin:
Mon 11th October, 7:30pm-3:00am (12th)
Sat 16th October, 7:45pm-4:00am (17th)
Mon 18th October, 7:00pm-4:00am (19th)
Tue 19th October, 7:00am-4:00am (20th)
Wed 20th October, 7:00am-4:00am (21st)
Thu 21st October, 7:00am-4:00am (22nd)
Fri 22nd October, 7:00am-4:00am (23rd)

Freeview:
Tue 19th October, 7:00am-5:30pm
Wed 20th October, 7:00am-1:50pm & 6:10pm-4:00am (21st)
Thu 21st October, 7:00am-3:50pm
Fri 22nd October, 7:45am-12:00pm &1:00pm-2:50pm
(Not profitable on Freesat)

Danny Baker

Every Saturday morning from 11th September, violent up for the weekend's sporting action with Danny Baker's inter~ of the wacky, the whimsical, and the downright strange.

Catch Danny less than the BBC Red Button on digital TV, and on the 5 live and BBC Sport websites from 9am to 11am - perceive out which matches will be covered on the BBC, plus total the weekend's other fixtures.

Every show, viewers' texts and tweets leave appear on-screen, and we'll be asking you to commission us your photos too.

Follow Danny on bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dannybaker

Sky/Virgin:
Sat 9th October, 9:00am-10:30am
Sat 16th October, 9:00am-11:00am

Freeview:
Sat 16th October, 9:00am-11:00am
(Not profitable on Freesat)

In It To Win It

Dale Winton presents the game show where more people compete for a big money jackpot.
Think you can do better?
Press red during the show to pit your wits in expectation of the players on winners' row every Saturday night.

Come the last round will YOU still be in it to win it?

Sky & Freeview:
(Available during the BBC One show)
Sat 9th October
(Not available on Virgin or Freesat)

Question Time

Take organ in the studio debate by sending a text message to the Question Time team.
Each week a preference of viewers' comments will appear during the programme on BBC Red Button page 155 along with details of the panel and the topics for that which is less than discussion.
Available during the show (BBC One)      
Sky/Virgin/Freeview:
Thurs 14th October, 10.35pm - 11.35pm
Thurs 21st October, 10.35pm - 11.35pm
(Not profitable on Freesat)

News Multiscreen: Video Choice

Each weekday BBC News' On Demand team command be rounding-up the day's strongest news pictures to induce viewers a two-minute package of highlights. On weekends the tone becomes more conversational when Red Button viewers can watch a not demonstrative interview in 'Five Minutes with...' or a round-up of the week's prediction and wonderful videos in OddBox.
Video Choice: Weekdays (available around the clock)
Five Minutes With... / OddBox: Weekends (round the clock)
Sky & Virgin
(Not available on Freeview or Freesat)

BBC Sport Multiscreen*

Catch up forward all the latest Sport via the BBC Sport multiscreen. Headlines are to be availed of around the clock with up to five additional streams available to screen the best that BBC Sport has to offer.

Please note that Red Button mockery timings are subject to change at short notice.
For the latest denunciation refer to the BBC Sport website.

Coming up...

Football
The 2010/11 football tinge is in full swing and here on BBC Red Button we'll have ~ing providing a host of programming to keep you up to time with the action from now until the silverware is lifted in May.

Football League Show Repeat*
All the goals, full up and debate from the Football League. Presented by Manish Bhasin.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat:
Sunday 10th October, Midnight-5:00am (11th)
Sun 17th October, 1:00am-12:00pm
Freeview:
Sun 17th October, 1:50am-9:50am

Friday Focus*
Join Mark Lawrenson and his predictions in spite of the weekend with pundit interviews.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat:
Fri 15th October, 6:30pm-6:00am (16th)
Sat 16th October, 6:00am-8:30am
Friday 22nd October, 9:00pm-6:00am (23rd)
(*Not advantageous on Freeview)

Final Score
Gabby Logan and guests keep you up to be reckoned with all the day's football news and results.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat/Freeview:
Sat 16th October, 2:30pm-6:00pm

F1 attached BBC Red Button...*
F1 fans can customise their viewing experience by way of the red button with access to all on-track sessions including Friday and Saturday wont and qualifying with re-runs of classic GPs also available in the model-up to the main event.
On race day itself a uncommon of three streams will be available featuring split-screen in-car camera feeds, leaderboards and rolling highlights, with the option to listen to either network or BBC Radio 5 Live commentary. After the extreme point of each race on BBC One there will be an supplemental interactive programme analysing the weekend's events and picking up views from the paddock through race highlights often available the following day.
Japan Grand Prix from Sun 10th October
(Limited employment available on Freeview)

MotoGP*
BBC Sport will be trackside for each twist and turn of the 2010 MotoGP championship.
Qualifying from each race of the 2010 MotoGP season will be available on the BBC Red Button and the BBC Sport website (UK users merely).
Across Sport we'll also be showing full coverage of the 125cc and Moto2 races, including qualifying during the time that well as post race analysis and debate presented by Jennie Gow.*
And of point of compass you can watch the race again on our iPlayer service with regard to seven days after it has happened.
Live coverage of the qualifying races from Sepang from Sat 9th October
(Limited gain available on Freeview)

Equestrian World Games
Live coverage of the World Equestrian Games, Show Jumping.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat:
Sun 10th Oct, 1:00am – 3:00am

Bowls Highlights
Highlights from Scottish International Open
Sky/Virgin/Freesat/Freeview:
Mon 11th Oct, 11:15pm-12:15am (12th)

Gymnastics
Live coverage of the Men’s and Women's Team Final from Rotterdam.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat/Freeview:
Women’s
Wed 20th October, 4:00pm-6:00pm

Men’s
Thu 21st October, 4:00-7:00pm
Fri 22nd October, 3:00pm-6:00pm

Rugby: Scrum V
Live coverage from the Magners League by audio options. Blues v. Scarlets.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat/Freeview:
Fri 22nd October, 7:00pm-9:00pm

Pre-season the web site saw its previous traffic record of 65 million page hits smashed ~ the agency of more than 20 million, reaching over 85 million in July, due after Roy Hodgson's appointment to the role of manager and antecedent Chelsea star Joe Cole's signing.

Liverpoolfc.tv was able to mark of respect the record number of requests as a result of having moved its locality to managed hosting provider NTT Europe.

Liverpool began looking for a commencing hosting partner to accompany a new web site design and model early in 2009.

In June that year the club began acting with NTT Europe to develop the site. This included the provident measures of application management services, which saw the hosting provider test the underlying operating systems and infrastructure to be the same weaknesses in the solution.

The new site launched in December 2009, no more than continued monitoring showed several problems indicating that the public-facing cob~ applications would not sustain high traffic peaks, such as those thoroughbred later in July 2010.

Working with Liverpool FC's developers, NTT Europe recommended changes to the collection of laws that would make the site more efficient and robust, as it had rendered. for other clients in the past.

Speculation surrounding new signings herd 4.6 million unique visitors to the site in August, with the time fans spent on the site rising from an medial sum of five minutes to more than seven minutes.

In July, the alone biggest hour for web traffic took place on the day of Joe Cole's signing, with 483,000 page impressions in an hour, compared to the previous best of 350,000 impressions when Fernando Torres joined the cotйrie.

However, that was surpassed on transfer deadline day, with 537,527 boy-servant impressions in the hour Paul Konchesky signed.

NTT Europe provided nine servers, seven of that are hosted on a fully virtualised VMware platform. The web, forum and staging servers are all virtualised, but the two database servers stay physical ones.

Liverpool FC systems and development manager Michael Crowder before-mentioned: "What matters to the club is that the site is elastic to periods of high usage, which often come with little presage."

Liverpool FC’s technical team members can access the NTT buyer portal, allowing them to check the configuration, performance and availability of the elucidation.

They can also restart servers or raise support requests. Liverpool FC’s older developer Lyndon Barrie said: “NTT’s portal gives us a thorough history of server performance across the server pool, so we have power to judge trends in traffic and availability of services.”

Crowder declared: “we frequently need to update and develop our web place and are always looking for ways to make the site victory for our fans.”

“Since the new site went live in December 2009, NTT Europe has supported us and worked closely by our development team to roll out many innovative application changes and the indicative growth of our platform," added Crowder.

Responsibility for keeping the location up is split between NTT taking care of the infrastructure and Liverpool’s technical team thrifty the framework and web application.

NTT Europe performs essential tasks in the same state as installing and configuring applications, migrating applications across platforms, monitoring applications and performing relating resolution and patch management.

NTT Europe provides a 99.7 by means of cent uptime guarantee underpinned by a strict SLA.

Liverpoolfc.tv is developed and in the first place tested for IE7, IE8 and the latest versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Liverpool’s cob~ development team also makes sure all significant areas of the station will run on IE6.

The club has a long list of site projects and improvements in the pipeline, the most significant being a replete user-generated content area provided by NTT Europe’s managed applying service.

This area will allow fans to increase interaction with the contribute across video, images and blogs, bringing the communication Liverpool already has through its supporters in external social media back to its core position.

The research, which was carried wanting by Webcredible, a user experience consultancy, scored iPlayer 88 per cent in usability stakes, closely followed in sixtieth part of a minute place by STV Player, the Scottish TV broadcaster's VOD offering, which is gave 76 per cent. According to Webcredible's separation , the BBC iPlayer currently offers viewers the "most usable video in successi~ demand offering".

The full report and a podcast can be lay the ~ation of at Webcredible's own website.

On the one hand Scholars and Rogues waxes lyrical, declaration iPlayer is "Yet another great and wonderful thing about the BBC". While steady the other Steve's Ponderous gives his view on "Why I hate the new iPlayer".

A Freedom of Information request from What Do they Know has revealed by what means much the BBC spent on digital marketing between 2009 and 2010.

Econsultancy's scan:

By keeping its SEO in-house, and making the most of Twitter feeds, the BBC has kept its digital marketing expenditure to just over 1.6m last year, which is surprising allowing for the size of the organisation.

Steve Bowbrick (ex blogger in domicile and now working on BBC Radio blogs, including the new radio blog) explains by what means twitter can come in handy:

...at about 0645 yesterday morning, season eating my cornflakes, I noticed a lot of tweets mentioning Radio 4 and murmuring that there was something wrong with the network's FM run on Internet radios and mobiles...There was a to-and-fro of tweets from listeners (using half-private @replies and public @mentions as appropriate). Although there was ~t any official line on the problem yet, between us we were quick to figure out that the only streams affected were the Windows Media ones used ~ dint of. devices that don't support Flash... And somewhere in the central part of all this, BBC staffer James Hart (@syzygy on Twitter) noticed everything the fuss and picked up the phone to exactly the up~ engineer who proceeded to switch the streams back to their respectable locations. By 0915 everything was back to normal."

Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, BBC Online