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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... [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... [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... [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... [28 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News BBC iPlayer has landed The online betting exchange won CNET Networks UK Business and Technology Project of the Year award for this piece of R&D. It hasn't exactly been a bumper year for conventional retail - soaring debt, an increasingly depressed... [19 Dec 2007]
Where next for broadband Britain?
News The speakers at the eForum touched on various applications - from videoconferencing to greater opportunities for homeworking to the rise of social networking and even the BBC's iPlayer - that might benefit from improved broadband infrastructure. [22 Nov 2007]
Facebook founder tops Agenda Setters list
News Reflecting the increasing role of web 2.0, the BBC's director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield (5), rose three places, primarily for his work around the iPlayer online TV service. Clearly, the technology industry has undergone a... [17 Oct 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News BBC iPlayer row: The government speaks And finally, the controversy around the BBC iPlayer was again in the news this month with the government responding to an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website, signed by more than 16,000 people. [28 Sep 2007]
BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row
News A spokesman for ISP trade association Ispa said: "iPlayer's impact on broadband networks obviously will have to be assessed and looked at over time. Tiscali has expressed concern about the impact of the BBC's iPlayer on the level of demand for... [14 Aug 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam
News BBC to meet open sourcers over iPlayer This article notes the uncomfortable position in which the BBC finds itself with its Microsoft-centric iPlayer. Network operators should be responsible for implementing and policing effective acceptable use... [24 Jul 2007]
