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RSS streaming in newsHome servers latest trend to sweep market?
News The real appeal of the home server is its synching, streaming and management capabilities. That opens the door to a new market, one that for now remains a niche afterthought to most people: home servers. [21 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), being switched on in August at Cern in... [15 Jul 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News The streaming version of iPlayer was launched on Christmas Day last year and has since received more than 100 million programme requests. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and... [25 Jun 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News The company said this does away with the need for a wi-fi-enabled device, enabling the 3G handset to connect directly to a home network and be used for apps such as streaming video from a home media server to the phone. [23 Jun 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News He warned: "In a few years, internet users will expect to be able to view full-HD streaming IPTV via their internet connection. But they could just as well prove a network nightmare, warns industry analyst Berg Insight. [20 Jun 2008]
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... [30 Apr 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... [13 Mar 2008]
BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone
News The iPhone's Edge technology is too slow for streaming videos. 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... [07 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia
News Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia... [04 Mar 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News The company said it has already taken steps to make its online offering more appealing to punters by running video streaming of events and expanding on online payments systems through which they can make bets. [27 Feb 2008]
Confusion over Office streaming service
News Jeffries claimed Fasthosts' version of Office was the result of a partnership "with Microsoft and established market-leading experts in the field of software streaming". Jeffries said a "full version Microsoft Office, identical to the boxed product... [11 Feb 2008]
iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs
News The service has been available in streaming form for Macs and Linux - in addition to Windows XP and Vista - since December last year. BBC stats suggest around 90 per cent of people using the streaming version of iPlayer are running Windows, with... [08 Feb 2008]
Is online TV throttling broadband networks?
News Tiscali claims that both the streaming and download versions of the BBC's iPlayer can create problems on its network. The massive increase in bandwidth-heavy online TV and video content being downloaded by UK broadband users has raised questions... [28 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits
News The proportion of users streaming content compared to those using the download service was eight to one. The streaming version of iPlayer was launched for Windows, Macs and Linux in December. More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched... [15 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus
News A streaming version of iPlayer was launched for Windows, Macs and Linux in December. In terms of competitors in the UK, YouTube remains far and away the leader for online video, claiming just under nine per cent of all UK internet visits in the... [10 Jan 2008]
