Another sign of the swift rise of tablets today: last month tablet usage of the BBC’s on-demand online TV service iPlayer edged past mobile for the first time, with 41M programme requests by tablet vs. 40M on mobile, according to BBC stats for the month. There were 200,000 more requests on tablets than mobiles. Overall, across all device types, the service saw 272M programme requests. → Read More
Shazam, the erstwhile exclusively music discovery app that has expanded into TV as a companion app letting users ‘tag’ TV shows (and ads) to get quick access to a plethora of related content, has today named a new chief product officer — poaching Daniel Danker from the BBC to lead “the product expansion of the Shazam service”. → Read More
Windows Phone fans are still waiting for Instagram to land on their mobile platform of choice but there’s some good news for U.K. owners of Microsoft-powered smartphones: the BBC is porting its TV-on-demand iPlayer app to the platform. Cyrus Saihan, head of business development at BBC future media, said the corporation will be releasing a shortcut to BBC iPlayer “in the near future”. → Read More
Will the Internet run out of bandwidth? That’s the concern expressed by an upcoming study, and it could mean the end of the Internet as we know it. Uselessly slow Web sites (think: YouTube, Hulu), Internet “brownouts” (“please wait: processing request”), and general mayhem could be the norm in just a few years’ time. So let’s freak out about it. → Read More
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