BBC to launch mobile apps

Release Date 19 Feb, 2010 in Financial Times

 
   

Rival media attack BBC's apps plan

Financial Times - Tim Bradshaw - 19 Feb, 2010
Newspapers and broadcasters have leapt on the BBC's plans for a range of mobile phone applications - apps - as ...

Newspapers' fury at BBC's mobile push

Independent - Ian Burrell - 19 Feb, 2010
Britain's national newspaper companies, which are already experiencing severe financial difficulties from the growth of the ...

BBC to launch mobile apps

Financial Times - Tim Bradshaw - 19 Feb, 2010
Mobile phone owners will soon be able to watch live BBC news reports and World Cup football, listen to radio ...

Newspapers vent anger over BBC iPhone app

Times Online - Nic Fildes - 19 Feb, 2010
Plans to launch a dedicated BBC iPhone application (app) has been harshly criticised by the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) which is set to complain ...

Newspapers slam BBC iPhone app plans

Register - John Oates - 19 Feb, 2010
Newspaper publishers are calling on the BBC Trust to rein in the broadcaster's plans to start making applications ...

iPhone apps from the BBC â€" what a waste of my licence fee

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Neil Midgley - 19 Feb, 2010
So we learn today that the BBC is to launch iPhone apps for news and sport. ...

Newspaper group call to block BBC iPhone apps

BBC News - 19 Feb, 2010
The BBC Trust has been urged to block the corporation's plans to launch phone apps for its news and sport content. The Newspaper Publishers Association ...

Call to block BBC iPhone apps plan

The Press Association - 19 Feb, 2010
The BBC Trust has been urged to block the corporation's plans to launch a smartphone news service because it is claimed it will "distort" the market. ...

BBC plans iPhone apps for iPlayer, sport, news

ZDNet UK - 19 Feb, 2010
The BBC is launching a trio of apps: an iPlayer app, a news app and a sports results app. The announcement was made by Erik Huggers, the BBC's head of ...

BBC's World Cup coverage to be broadcast live to mobile phones

Telegraph.co.uk - Anita Singh - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
Football fans will be able to watch the BBC's World Cup coverage live and for free on their mobile phones. By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor Each game ...

BBC plans news and sport iPhone 'apps'

Telegraph.co.uk - Rupert Neate - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
The BBC has announced plans to launch its first applications for Apple's iPhone as part of a major push into mobile phone content. ...

BBC launches its first apps for iPhones

Independent - Nick Clark - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
The BBC is set to expand its online operations with a drive into applications for mobile phones, a business that the broadcaster termed a "top ...

BBC viewers to catch up on the iPhone iPlayer

Times Online - Nic Fildes - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
The BBC will launch its first applications for the iPhone, including the iPlayer catch-up television service, as it tries to replicate the popularity of its ...

BBC to launch its first iPhone applications

Times Online - Nic Fildes - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
The BBC will launch its first applications for the iPhone, including the iPlayer catch-up TV service, as it looks to replicate its online content on mobile ...

World Cup on your Iphone

Inquirer - David Neal - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
UK TV AND RADIO INSTITUTION the BBC has announced that lucky punters, slaves to fashion and gadget junkies will be able to avoid the ...

BBC News on iPhone

BBC News (blog) - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
This is an exciting development for us and a natural progression after providing the best of our journalism - news, sport, weather, travel - on mobile ...

BBC to launch free mobile apps

The Guardian - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
The BBC has announced a new range of free applications that will deliver its online services to mobile devices, starting with BBC News in April. ...

Smartphones score World Cup bonus

The Press Association - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
Every kick from the BBC's World Cup matches in South Africa will be broadcast live to smartphones, the broadcaster has announced. ...

BBC clambers onto iPhone bandwagon

Register - Bill Ray - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
MWC The BBC has announced it will be launching iPhone applications for News and Sports results, with other platforms ...

BBC to offer iPhone apps for news and sport

BBC News - ‎Feb 17, 2010‎
The BBC has announced it will offer iPhone applications for its news and sport content from April. The free apps will be followed by versions for BlackBerry ...

Top 10 green iPhone apps

The Guardian (blog) - ‎Feb 16, 2010‎
With the climate science wars spilling onto the battleground of the Apple app store this month, the time is ripe to round up the best iPhone and iPod Touch ...

Next Wave of iPhone Apps Emerges

San Francisco Chronicle - Tom Kaneshige - ‎Feb 16, 2010‎
(02-16) 12:05 PST -- Super-smart iPhone apps will replace silly iFart-like apps in the second wave of iPhone app development, said iPhone app developers at ...

Newspapers challenge BBC phone apps

TECH.BLORGE.com - Dave Parrack - 19 Feb, 2010
Yesterday saw the BBC announce news and sport apps for the smartphone market, with the iPhone being followed by Blackberry, Android, ...

BBC to offer iPhone apps from April

Computeach - Paul Davis - 19 Feb, 2010
The BBC has unveiled plans to offer iPhone apps for its sport and news content from April. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Erik Huggers, ...

BBC prepping iPhone app

TechDay.co.nz - Danielle Schloffel - 19 Feb, 2010
The BBC has plans to release both a news and sports app, hoping to have them approved by Apple in time ...

BBC Mobile apps: bandwidth and familiarity

InternetRetailing.net - Ian Jindal - 19 Feb, 2010
Eric Huggers, the BBC's Director of Future Media and Technology, announced in his keynote to Mobile World Congress yesterday the development of a raft of ...

Comment : NPA Wrong To Criticise BBC iPhone App Venture

ITProPortal - Desire Athow - 19 Feb, 2010
The National Press Association is clearly unhappy about the launch of a number of news-oriented iPhone Apps by the BBC by April 2010 and this is certainly ...

The BBC Goes Mobile With New Apps

Mobile Marketing Watch (blog) - 19 Feb, 2010
The BBC may be one of the oldest and most venerable broadcasting institutions known the world over, but even the British Broadcasting Corporation isn't ...

UK Newspapers to BBC: Don't Bigfoot Us on iPhone Apps

Editor & Publisher - 19 Feb, 2010
By E&P Staff CHICAGO British newspaper publishers are scrambling to block the BBC from launching a suite of applications for the iPhone and other ...

BBC app update: No downloads for iPlayer, News and Sport

Crave - Luke Westaway - 19 Feb, 2010
News just in: the upcoming BBC News, Sport and iPlayer apps for iPhone and other mobile platforms will not let ...

 

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