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Great news if you’re in the UK and a fan of BBC TV programming.  The BBC’s iPlayer service for the iPhone and iPod Touch has gone live - which gives on-demand streaming access to all of the Beeb’s most popular programs.

The UK media outlet explains that the Apple-friendly version works by streaming a 516Kbps H.264 video feed over the website; as it’s limited to just a narrow set of devices, no Flash plugins or software development kit support is necessary.

You do need a WiFi connection to enjoy this of course - Edge will not cope.  And the BBC’s site identifies if you’re outside the UK - and in that case you’re out of luck for any of the TV / video content.

The BBC has said they’re working on an international version, but there’s no timeframe for when that will launch as yet.  I’m hoping it will be sometime soon, as I’d love to be able to start catching episodes of Top Gear, and getting up to speed on the latest, greatest British comedy shows …

Via: Apple Insider

That’s right, less than a week after the SDK and iPhone 2.0 were announced, and MONTHS before Firmware 2.0 is to be released—- it is already broken!!!

That means you can get all that up and coming 3rd Party app goodness AND all the free goodies already enjoyed. Ain’t Life Grand!

Personally, as a non-techie, I am just in awe of the creative intellect out there- and the willingness to share so much of it with others for nuthin’.

Keep up the good work folks- a whole lot of us really appreciate what you do!

via Engadget

If you’re enjoying watching the latest Flash videos on your iPhone, don’t expect it anytime soon. On the shareholder meeting Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, that Adobe Flash will not be supported by iPhone anytime soon.

Steve Jobs claimed that the full-blown PC Flash version “performs too slow to be useful.”

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