ITV is in talks to extend the ITV Player over multiple devices, including the PS3, BlackBerrys, Apple and the forthcoming Google TV according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. Quoting a ’senior TV executive close to ITV’ the Telegraph suggests that ITV is ready to make its video on demand service and answer to the BBC iPlayer a much bigger proposition and is talking to Sony, RIM, Apple and Google. The BBC has already rolled the iPlayer across many devices – although not Microsoft’s Xbox 360 of course – but the ITV is apparently looking at a potential paid for app to raise money for the cost of the venture.
When your users spend more time deleting messages than reading email on your webmail service, you know it’s time to make email easier to deal with. “The inbox has got out of control,” Chris Jones, corporate vice president for Windows Live, told TechRadar. “Our approach is to take the common things people do and make them easier.” The changes coming to Hotmail this summer promise to unclutter your inbox, Jones claims. “It used to be if you had 19 unread messages, that was 19 mails from real people that you need to read
It’s a great month for Opera, with the company having recently hit the magic 100 million users worldwide mark , followed by the latest news that Opera’s speedy mobile browser for iPhone has finally been approved by Apple and is available for iPhone users to download from the App Store for free right now. For many, it is quite a surprise that Apple even approved the browser – with it being faster than Apple’s own Safari browser on the iPhone.
Twitter has announced that it has acquired the developer of Tweetie – one of the leading third-party apps for the popular microblogging service. Twitter announced earlier this month that it has acquired Atebits, maker of Tweetie , following the huge take-up of Tweetie on Apple’s iPhone over the last two years. Twitter for iPhone According to a post on the Twitter blog, the app will soon be renamed Twitter for iPhone and will also now be free