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iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity

News Since its launch, iPlayer has also been rolled out to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch as well as the Nintendo Wii computer console.iPlayer has gone from strength to strength with both download and streaming versions proving massively popular since...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News Highfield claims broadband usage has "changed beyond recognition" since BBC iPlayer received its full launch on Christmas Day last year, contributing to a significant growth in people watching TV on the web.

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

Mobile market kept afloat by Africa and Asia

News Handset makers sold 283 million phones in January to March, up 10 per cent from a year ago, but down around 15 per cent from the fourth quarter, which is usually boosted by Christmas holiday sales, according to a Reuters poll.

Tags: mobile, nokia, motorola

[01 Apr 2008]

Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits

News We're all familiar with the stressful situations of everyday life such as moving house, break-ups and organising a family Christmas - but it seems being out of mobile contact may be the 21st century's contribution to our already manic lives," he...

Tags: crackberry, always-on, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole

News The download version of iPlayer was launched in beta form last summer before being joined by a streaming version when the service received its marketing launch on Christmas Day last year. The BBC has issued a fix for a loophole that allowed hackers...

Tags: iplayer, drm, online, content

[13 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet During the latter half of the year, more people started using the service and it received a full marketing launch on Christmas Day - which was also when the streaming version of the service went live.

Tags: isp, online, on demand, iplayer

[05 Mar 2008]

Internet shoppers clueless on web security

News Research from IMRG, which found £84m was spent online on Christmas Day alone, supports this. Consumers still lack awareness of basic online security alarms despite well publicised instances of data breaches and fraud.

Tags: netbenefit, fraud, ssl, enter

[26 Feb 2008]

Online shopping up by 75 per cent

News On Christmas day, more people were online than went to church. Online shopping jumped in January, with sales reaching a record high of £4.5bn in the UK over the month.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to...

Tags: online, retail, capgemini, revenues

[22 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]

Photos: Regent St store - flying the flag for Nokia

Photo The silver spheres on the ceiling are similar to those hung over Regent Street as part of the Nokia-sponsored Christmas decorations. This is Nokia's UK flagship store at 240 Regent Street, London. The shop opened last Saturday with no expense being...

Tags: nokia, apple, mobile, shop

[12 Feb 2008]

Mobile data keeps Wiltshire Police out on the beat

News The rollout is expected to be completed by Christmas 2008. Wiltshire Police is to start usability testing of a mobile data application next month in a project slated to cost £2.1m and save £4.4m in productivity by keeping officers out on the beat.

Tags: hcl, htc, police, gprs

[11 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday

Comment And judging by the hoards of emails that have been assaulting my inbox daily since Christmas, every tiddler on the tiny screen is hoping to get their big break at MWC. It's February and there's a red circle burning a hole in my calendar.

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[10 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to fight the flab in the IT department

Comment Bloated IT systems are an increasingly common problem - companies struggling with IT systems that have grown unwieldy, gorged on unnecessary data that the business just won't throw away, just like the empty calories we all guzzled over Christmas.

Tags: storage, data, health, green

[30 Jan 2008]

Toy retailer entertains web upgrade

News Bewley explained: "Up to 60 per cent of our sales for the year come in the six weeks running up to Christmas, so we needed something that could scale to that sort of demand. Independent toy retailer The Entertainer has completed a website refresh...

Tags: web, gadgetshop, retail, ecommerce

[30 Jan 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking for a new career or job and recruitment agencies predicted a healthy flow of new candidates and continued high demand for tech skills in this analysis of the 2008 IT job...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Retail in a rut: IT to the rescue?

Comment As the Christmas sales figures proved, retailers looking for any significant growth this year will have to look online. But what impact will that have on retail IT investment in 2008, asks Penelope Ody.

Tags: retail, investment, internet, leisure

[25 Jan 2008]

Multiple choice helps council IT measure up

Case Study Around 60 mostly junior IT support staff took the questionnaire just before Christmas and team managers are now evaluating the results in conjunction with internal competency frameworks "to ensure staff are up to scratch and best able to do the...

Tags: comptia, skills, county, council

[24 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]

Retailers count the online Xmas coffers

News Retailers participating in the index found sales growth actually dipped in the run up to the festive holiday, but picked up from Christmas day. It's possible that people were holding money back and waiting to spend after Christmas.

Tags: retail, tesco, john lewis, christmas

[17 Jan 2008]

Confusion over Granger's NHS departure

News A spokesman for the Department of Health said at Christmas a decision about the interim management arrangements would be finalised within a "few weeks" - but no decision had been made as of this week.

Tags: cfh, hospital, nhs, emergency services

[15 Jan 2008]

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