Monday, May 23, 2005

Podcasting - Apple styleeee

Steve Jobs has apparently announced today that the next update for iTunes will allow you to easily subscribe to podcast feeds and have them seamlessly moved to your iPod.

Now I don't particularly want to listen to Tom, Dick and Harry's homemade reviews of the latest mobile phones or Game Boy, but I think there is great potential hear to be able to listen to radio programmes when you want to.

The BBC is running a trial of this at the minute and I have been downloading episodes of the Saturday morning 5live show Fighting Talk to listen to on the train to London. Great stuff! Try it out by downloading the file here and imagine how cool it will be when you just have to type this in once and then every week iTunes goes off and gets the new one. (Broadband of course is essential!)

posted by MrB @ 7:26 AM 1 comments

Friday, May 20, 2005

ORANGE UK LAUNCHES TV ON THE MOBILE

There's been quite a lot of talk about TV on your mobile over the last couple of weeks and from Monday orange will be broadcasting CNN, ITN (and Celebrity Love Island! - if it's not cancelled by then).

There going to stream it over 3G so there's absolutely no chance of this being any use for those of us who travel on Virgin trains catching up on the days going on in the big brother house.

3-month free trial when you get the Nokia 6680, then 10 quid a month for 1GB of TV data, about 20 hours (if I were cleverer I may be able to workout what the spped of the stream were - maybe later!)

Anyway here's the press release

posted by MrB @ 1:38 AM 1 comments