The BBC has launched a new portal for its TV catchup service iPlayer on mobile to support a wider range of mobile phones, including the Samsung Omnia and the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) Xperia X1. Starting next week, the new portal, which includes live TV and radio alongside…

The BBC is planning a marketing campaign to raise the profile of its mobile news services, after finding domestic traffic to its mobile web offering rose 26 percent to 3.2 million uniques in the year to September. The move comes after the broadcaster received results of a survey it commissioned…

Users of the BBC’s catch-up service iPlayer will be able to download TV programs over the air directly to their handsets, thanks to a set of agreements that the British broadcaster has signed with technology and licensing companies CMLA, Core Media and Intertrust that will allow them to use OMA…

The BBC’s online video catchup service iPlayer, till now bandwidth-heavy enough to only be available on iPhone and iPod Touch through their WiFi capabilities (plus Wii, web, PC and Virgin Media), is now coming to Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) upcoming N96 phone. The phone goes on sale in UK on October…

Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) BBC Sport news widget may have made headlines yesterday, but one unknown component of the broadcaster’s Olympics coverage is a relationship struck with T-Mobile UK to deliver video highlights of events from China. BBC Sport Interactive head Ben Gallop suggested to me in an interview the service…

The Top Gear juggernaut rolls on. Once a humble but controversial BBC autos review show, BBC Worldwide is now cashing in on accidental US popularity with Australian and American spinoffs, bigger billing on BBC America and making topgear.com top amongst its new “passion sites”. Next is a mobile phone game,…

The UK’s premium rate phone-in scandal rumbles on. The BBC admitted today that £106,000 ($212,000) raised for charity through a premium rate fundraising phone-in was in fact kept by Audiocall, a subsidiary of the corporation’s commercial division. The broadcaster said it would pay the sum plus interest—£123,000 ($246,000) to the…

The BBC’s head mobile honcho Matthew Postgate said that now that “the iPlayer was out the door,” the broadcaster would be focusing more intently on mobile. The publicly-funded broadcaster is hoping this summer—with its loaded schedule of sporting events including the Olympics, Euro 2008 and Wimbledon will prove the tipping…

Update: The iPhone/iPod touch version of the BBC’s iPlayer has boosted traffic to the TV catch-up service by 10 percent. One in 20 who came via the handset used the hack contained in the iPhone-specific service prior to last week, however, BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield wrote.…

The BBC has launched today its recently overhauled mobile website, which now emulates the new appearance of the recently-revamped bbc.co.uk. The seven-year-old site has been updated to reflect the fact that accessing the internet with mobile phones has vastly improved since 2001. The new design adds more interactive features and…

After much rumor, the BBC has made its iPlayer TV catch-up service available on iPhone - its first mobile implementation. The service does not use the new SDK nor an iPhone version of Flash but delivers 516Kbps streams in H.264 format through the handset’s web browser, over WiFi. It offers…