There’s far too many ‘i’-prefixed words knocking about as it is these days but you can blame the BBC for the next sentence.

Just days after announcing plans to offer Beeb programmes as £1.89 downloads on iTunes [which not everyone is best pleased about] it’s bringing its online catch-up TV service, iPlayer, to the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

Considering Mac users have been overlooked somewhat with the first version of iPlayer, this will surely come as welcome news, especially since it will be free. The only niggle is that the downloads will only be accessible through Wi-Fi, not EDGE networks. Still the BBC has a deal with The Cloud to allow free access to the iPlayer content.

The extension of iPlayer to the Touch and iPhone is expected in the next few weeks.

So far, iPlayer has been a runaway success for the Beeb, with 11million downloads and streams from more than 2 million people, in January alone.-Martin Lynch

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