iplayer this week
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up Slightly better news for Windows fans, the BBC has taken the wraps off the new version of the splendid iPlayer. Still with Microsoft, there was another high-profile departure at Microsoft this week. Where the company goes from here is the subject... [27 Jun 2008]
XP SP3 starts endless reboot for some AMD PCs
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Microsoft said in a statement: "While the root cause of this issue is complex, it... [14 May 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics due this week. In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! [22 Apr 2008]
Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a... [22 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping down on sex offenders. [10 Apr 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? What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [06 Mar 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... [20 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 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 weeks following its marketing launch alone. [28 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus
News The number of online searches for iPlayer increased by 15 times during the past month, with 18 per cent of the site's traffic during the week ending 5 January coming from search engines. In terms of competitors in the UK, YouTube remains far and... [10 Jan 2008]
BBC's iPlayer comes to Macs and Linux
News Each week there will be around 250 different programmes available to watch via the iPlayer streaming service for seven days after they are first broadcast. A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for... [14 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment BBC iPlayer row: The government speaks The BBC should close the iPlayer Service with immediate effect until it can provide the service for the other platforms. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [13 Sep 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 17.08.07
Round-Up Podcast On this week's podcast: the rise of email stress, calls to 'bring back the tea trolley', the BBC iPlayer broadband row, techie baby names and mysterious cars roving the streets of London. Host Sylvia Carr is joined in the studio by Andy McCue... [17 Aug 2007]
Dear silicon.com... ID cards, Auntie's iPlayer, generation web 2.0, robot wars
Comment BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row I'd uploaded about 1.4GB over the weekend that was due to the iPlayer. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on... [16 Aug 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 03.08.07
Round-Up Podcast The BBC iPlayer, why you can't ban the internet, cat-cams and last week's Caption Competition winner are all up for discussion this week. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tony Hallett, Steve Ranger and Tim Ferguson. [03 Aug 2007]
