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The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week gorging itself senseless on chocolate eggs and iPlayer programmes.

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade

Case Study Find out all about BBC iPlayer, Google Android, Femtocells and more in silicon.com Cheat Sheets. Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows...

Tags: windows xp, council, leeds

[28 Mar 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer If you do find yourself stuck on the couch, however, there's no need to suffer daytime telly thanks to our handy BBC iPlayer Cheat Sheet. This month, silicon.com has been busy wrestling with Android.

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

UK businesses testing the water with SOA

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption Almost half of UK businesses are looking at implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) technology as they...

Tags: interoperability, soa, uk, implementation

[20 Mar 2008]

Calor Gas smelling of tech success

Case Study Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption Calor Gas has been using integration software to connect its technology infrastructure and boost efficiency.

Tags: telemetry, soa, integration, crm

[17 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer hacked… again

News Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. Paul Battley, a developer for crowd-sourced reviews site Reevoo, wrote on his...

Tags: bbc, hack, iplayer, released

[17 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News PlusNet has been one of the few providers to buck this trend - preferring instead to offer packages based on fixed download caps - and is now warning that the emergence of IP television and the BBC's iPlayer will make it impossible for its rivals...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole

News The BBC has issued a fix for a loophole that allowed hackers to download unrestricted content from its iPlayer online TV service. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ BBC signs up with iTunes ¦ BBC's iPlayer is go...

Tags: iplayer, drm, online, content

[13 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone

News The BBC's online on-demand TV service iPlayer is now available to use on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Writing on the BBC blog this morning the BBC's head of digital media technologies, Anthony Rose, said today was a big day for iPlayer as it's...

Tags: apple, edge, iplayer, bbc

[07 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ Video: What will mobiles look like in five years? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to...

Tags: mobile, data, vista, views

[06 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. iPlayer uses peer-to-peer technology for the download service, allowing content to be downloaded from the nearest point in the network, meaning not all content has to come...

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight

News BBC iPlayer: all the coverage   BBC signs up with iTunes   BBC's iPlayer is go   BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row   16,000 back iPlayer petition   Leader: Time for a ceasefire in iPlayer row   BBC tech...

Tags: isps, bandwidth, fcc, questions

[25 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment BBC iPlayer as a bandwidth hogger? So is iPlayer going to be a big concern or issue for us? We are only worried about the iPlayer on a reseller or BT's network. The iPlayer is a good tool or application for consumers.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

BBC iPlayer continues to soar with 17 million downloads

News The BBC's online on-demand TV service, iPlayer, continues to go from strength to strength, with 17 million programmes being downloaded or streamed in the past seven weeks.iPlayer received its full marketing launch on Christmas Day last year after...

Tags: iplayer, download, macs, bbc

[20 Feb 2008]

BBC signs up with iTunes

News BBC iPlayer: all the coverage   BBC signs up with iTunes   BBC's iPlayer is go   BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row   16,000 back iPlayer petition   Leader: Time for a ceasefire in iPlayer row   BBC tech...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, apple, itunes

[19 Feb 2008]

iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs

News The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general, Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting responding to questions about the BBC's approach to...

Tags: bbc, online, firefox, iplayer

[08 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News The BBC's online on-demand iPlayer for watching TV on the web had a good Christmas with 3.5 million hits but this sparked a debate about whether ISPs can cope with the increased bandwidth consumption, with speculation that content providers such...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux Specifically the recent surge of interest in the BBC's iPlayer online on-demand TV service raised this issue following a massive 3.5 million programmes being streamed or downloaded in the two...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 18.01.08

Round-Up Podcast Techies eating all the pies, happy Christmas for the iPlayer, interviews - what not the wear and the wonder that is Macworld were all discussed in The Weekly Round-Up podcast, Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the studio by Andy McCue, Nick...

Tags: iplayer, macworld, interviews, techies

[18 Jan 2008]

BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits

News More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day. The programmes were watched by more than one million visitors using the iPlayer during the same...

Tags: iplayer, download, online, streaming

[15 Jan 2008]

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