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James Whatley talks mobile apps
Mobile blogger and voice of SpinVox James Whatley, or Whatleydude as he is more commonly known in these circles made his first prime-time TV appearance on the BBC News at Six here in the UK yesterday.
In a piece by the BBC’s technology correspondent about how developers are making money from mobile [...]
Great news people – a year after the launch of the highly successful BBC iPlayer comes the announcement that the much anticipated BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac is finally available for download!
The new version of the BBC iPlayer Desktop launched in Beta today uses Adobe Air meaing that the application is platform netural and will [...]
Big news people – the BBC have launched its fantastic iPlayer for a selection* of Nokia NSeries handsets.
The first mobile version of iPlayer was launched for the iPhone earlier this year and has proved to be very popular.
The Nokia N96 is the first official phone that will come with the new BBC iPlayer application, as [...]
Have you checked out the much improved BBC iPlayer currently in BETA yet?
Did you know that the BBC have also been working on a new mobile version of their BBC iPlayer site?
Point your mobile browser to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/ and you will be redirected to the mobile version found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/mobile/index.html.
Here it is in action on my [...]
The BBC have just upped the quality of its BBC Podcasts from 64kbps to 128kbps. Now you will be able to listen to your favorite show in better quality sound. Yeah!
“When we launched the podcast service in 2007, we had only speech-based podcasts, and we felt that 64kbps mono was a nice compromise between sound [...]
Great news for Wii owners in the UK – you will be able to catch up on your favourite TV shows from the BBC with the launch of the iPlayer on your Nintendo Wii console.
An early version of the service is available from the Internet Channel on your Wii with refined versions due later in [...]
If you were up bright and early this morning and listen to BBC Radio 4 you may just have heard James Whatley (aka Whatleydude) talking to the BBC’s Technology reporter Rory Cellan-Jones about how businesses are engaging with the Blogosphere.
Image courtesy of Martyn Davies
James, who works for SpinVox is the eyes and ears for the [...]
Yes, it has finally happened a major UK broadcaster has finally released content to iTunes (UK). BBC Worldwide announced today that people will now be able to download episodes of their favorite shows – some soon after they have appeared on the BBC’s own iPlayer.
So far episodes include:
Spooks, The Catherine Tate Show, The Mighty [...]
Leading up to the launch of the iPhone here in the UK, the BBC News ran a spoof video similar to “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads by Apple comparing the iPhone to the N95. I tried to get hold of a copy of this at the time but the BBC media player doesnt [...]
While casually reading the latest Argos Newlsetter to hit my inbox the other day I spotted a small link to a competition that they were running to win an iTeDDY. This sounded familiar I thought to myself – could it be the same bear?
For those of you who live in the UK you may remember [...]
Mobile TV has just got better here in the UK – as some BBC channels have now been added to 3’s Mobile TV line up.
BBC One, BBC Three and BBC News 24 have been added to the existing line up of premier channels like ITV1 and ITN, as well as the other odds & sods [...]
It seems that there is no longer any need for the full web browser on your mobile! Why would you need one to get the latest news and information when you can get it via CEEFAX? Yes that’s right the BBC have provided a (very slick, I might add) Widget for the very popular [...]
A quick snap I took of my dog at the weekend has been featured on the BBC Devon website.
The picture was taken when I popped into work with Harvey last weekend. After making himself at home by leaping up onto my office chair – I just had to take a snap.
After casually mailing the [...]
