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RSS iplayerBBC iPlayer hacked… again
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]
BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii
News The BBC has announced its iPlayer online TV catch-up service is being made available for the Nintendo Wii. BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer... [10 Apr 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]
BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole
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]
BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone
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]
BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage
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]
BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo
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]
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... [19 Feb 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... [25 Feb 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... [28 Jan 2008]
BBC to take better care of web budget
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... [22 Jul 2008]
BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0
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]
Ashley Highfield
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]
Stories of the month - July 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]
BBC, ITV and C4 team up for on-demand TV
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]
