BBC News is the largest broadcast news gathering
operation in the world, providing services to BBC domestic radio as well as
television networks such as the BBC News, BBC Parliament and BBC World News. In
addition to this, news stories are available on the BBC Red Button service,
Ceefax and BBC News Online. In addition to this, the BBC has been developing
new ways to access BBC News, as a result has launched the service on BBC
Mobile, making it accessible to mobile phones and PDAs, as well as developing
alerts by e-mail, digital television, and on computers through a desktop alert.
Ratings figures suggest that during major crises such
as the 7 July 2005 London bombings or a Royal Event, the UK audience overwhelmingly turns to the BBC's coverage
as opposed to its commercial rivals. On 7 July 2005, the day that there were a
series of coordinated bomb blasts on London's public transport system, the BBC
Online website recorded an all time bandwidth peak of 11 Gb/s at 12:00 on 7 July.
BBC News received some 1 billion total hits on the day of the event (including
all images, text and HTML), serving some 5.5 terabytes of data. At peak times
during the day there were 40,000 page requests per second for the BBC News
website. The previous day's announcement of the 2012 Olympics being awarded to London caused a peak of around 5 Gbit/s. The previous all
time high at BBC Online was caused by the announcement of the Michael Jackson
verdict, which used 7.2 Gbit/s.
BERLIN — Germany’s economy slipped into reverse in the last quarter of 2011 despite posting strong growth of 3 percent for the full year, the country’s Federal Statistics Office said Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteWhile the 2011 growth figure was as expected by analysts, the statistics office also said that the German economy likely contracted by 0.25 percent in the last quarter of 2011. The exact figure for fourth quarter growth is due only in mid-February and could be revised.