Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Premier League football on your iPhone

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

iphone-.jpgBSkyB has struck a deal with Apple which will bring live sports to your iPhone. Presuming you have an iPhone that is. As of today, Sky Mobile TV will be made available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners via a new application at the Apple App Store. Via a Wi-Fi connection and the app (which is free to download, incidentally) users will be allowed to stream live TV from a range of channels including the Sky Sports, Sky Sports News, ESPN, At The Races and Sky News.

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Should the BBC charge for iPlayer?

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

ibbc-iplayer[1].jpgSome bloke called Ashley Highfield, a former BBC digital bigwig, has today said something that is almost guaranteed to make him unpopular. Basically, he’s putting forward the argument that the BBC should charge for the BBC iPlayer. Speaking at the government’s digital creative industry conference C&binet, he said that Auntie should capitalise on its position as market leader of VoD. Surely this could never work and bring into question what the TV license actually pays for?

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