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Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks in order to tap into the...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[02 May 2008]

iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity

News The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of the on-demand TV service. This is the first time iPlayer has been available on a TV platform and will bring full quality BBC programmes to the...

Tags: platform, cable, virgin media, bbc

[30 Apr 2008]

Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Employees at Tellme Networks apparently did much better when they were acquired by...

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 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 Applications can access this data even if it has been marked as not viewable via...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[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.

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News Back in August last year, Tiscali suggested content providers should pay for the upgrade of broadband networks to support the growth in online content through services such as the BBC's iPlayer. BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage ¦ BBC plugs iPlayer...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

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]

BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole

News BBC iPlayer: all the coverage ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ 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...

Tags: iplayer, drm, online, content

[13 Mar 2008]

BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone

News BBC iPlayer: all the coverage ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ 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...

Tags: apple, edge, iplayer, bbc

[07 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer

Cheat Sheet 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: 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 BBC iPlayer: all the coverage ¦ 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 chief hits back at iPlayer critics ¦ Open...

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]

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...

Tags: iplayer, retail, bbc, ibm

[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.

Tags: ngn, nga, broadband, fibre

[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...

Tags: apple, roaming, bbc, facebook

[17 Oct 2007]

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