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Leader There has been a lot of criticism levelled at the BBC for its on-demand TV service - iPlayer - since it was unveiled back in June. And as for compatibility, while the question about whether the iPlayer can become cross-platform is worth asking...
[31 Jul 2007]
News The BBC and the Open Source Consortium (OSC) have met to discuss concerns surrounding the development of the corporation's iPlayer.iPlayer is the BBC's online on-demand television service, unveiled last month and available to Windows XP users for...
[25 Jul 2007]
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]
News A streaming version of the BBC's iPlayer online TV on-demand service has been launched for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. As well as iPlayer, an on-demand player including content from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 currently called...
[14 Dec 2007]
News Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection. Paul Battley, a developer for crowd-sourced reviews site Reevoo, wrote on his...
[17 Mar 2008]
News The BBC has hit back at criticisms from the Mac and open source communities over the iPlayer only being available for Microsoft's Windows XP platform. The BBC launched the iPlayer in July this year for the Windows XP platform, leading to criticism...
[30 Oct 2007]
News The BBC has issued a fix for a loophole that allowed hackers to download unrestricted content from its iPlayer online TV service. BBC iPlayer: all the coverage ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ BBC signs up with iTunes ¦ BBC's iPlayer is go...
[13 Mar 2008]
News 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, Anthony Rose, said today was a big day for iPlayer as it's...
[07 Mar 2008]
News More than 16,000 people have now signed an e-petition protesting about the way the BBC has rolled out its on-demand TV service, iPlayer. The petition urges the Prime Minister to request the BBC develops an iPlayer for non-Windows platforms.
[20 Aug 2007]
News Tiscali has expressed concern about the impact of the BBC's iPlayer on the level of demand for bandwidth on its network. Tiscali told silicon.com the ISP feels if additional bandwidth is required for customers to be able to use iPlayer, the BBC...
[14 Aug 2007]
News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage ¦ BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole ¦ BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone ¦ Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer ¦ BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits ¦ Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux ¦ BBC signs up with...
[04 Apr 2008]
News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for Linux diams...
[15 Apr 2008]
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]
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...
[25 Feb 2008]
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]
News Understandably, he spoke about initiatives such as the Beeb's on-demand TV service iPlayer, which puts a rolling seven days' worth of BBC TV content on tap to anyone online in the UK. The last two years, during much of the development of iPlayer...
[03 Jul 2007]
AS Profile His most notable achievement this year is the long-awaited launch of the BBC's iPlayer, which allows viewers to download Beeb programmes up to seven days after transmission and then watch them for up to 30 days before being automatically deleted.
[12 Oct 2007]
News BBC iPlayer petition hits 10,000 An iPhone and an iPlayer were also making headlines this month. More than 10,000 people signed a petition demanding the iPlayer support alternative, non-Windows platforms.
[30 Jul 2007]
News Although the BBC launched its iPlayer service in July and ITV and Channel 4 both have their own on-demand services, Kangaroo is intended to complement these with the addition of archived content. The broadcasters will share the costs of developing...
[28 Nov 2007]
News Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer If you do find yourself stuck on the couch, however, there's no need to suffer daytime telly thanks to our handy BBC iPlayer Cheat Sheet. This month, silicon.com has been busy wrestling with Android.
[27 Mar 2008]
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