Friday, January 25, 2013

Software : BBC Sport app gets live video, brings Match of the Day to your phone

Software : BBC Sport app gets live video, brings Match of the Day to your phone

BBC Sport app gets live video, brings Match of the Day to your phone

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BBC Sport app gets live video, brings Match of the Day to your phone

Match of the Day is now available on your handset, as the BBC Sport iPhone app has been updated, enabling live video and on-demand shows.

You can watch all of the BBC's live sporting events and shows like Match of the Day on your phone through the app. In fact if you're quick, you could still catch Andy Murray (hopefully) thrashing Roger Federer in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

Other events coming up include F1, the Six Nations, and Wimbledon.

Not just for iPhone

But it's not just iPhone owners who can enjoy the videos: the BBC Sport mobile website will now show clips too. So anyone with a smartphone can get involved using their browser.

Android users can get in on the fun using the BBC Media Player app, available on Google Play.

The BBC Sport app for iPhone launched a couple of weeks ago. It works with all versions of iPhone currently on sale as well as the 3GS, iPod touch, and iPad. It's optimised for the iPhone 5.

As well as live updates, it'll bring you daily text commentary from BBC journalists, football tables and fixtures, and you can customise it depending on your favourite sport.

Google provides offline editing for Slides

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Google provides offline editing for Slides

Google has made it possible to edit its online Google Slides application on a local drive rather than through an internet connection.

Michael Frederick, software engineer in the Slides division, announced the change in a blogpost. He said it is now possible to create, edit, comment and present the slides offline, as is already possible with Google Docs.

The facility requires Chrome or Chrome OS for downloads and uploads of slides. The user also has to install the Offline Docs function, but if this has already been done no further changes are necessary.

The change is part of move to make it possible to create more documents and presentations using Google applications offline. Frederick said the company is working on making a similar facility available for Google Sheets.

News International wins rights to digital Premier League highlights

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News International wins rights to digital Premier League highlights

Rupert Murdoch has strengthened his grip on Barclays Premier League coverage by snatching up the online and app-based rights to show highlights from next season.

In a £20m deal The Sun and The Times newspapers, owned by Murdoch's News International company will have exclusive rights to screen goals and highlight videos through their websites and mobile apps.

The deal entitles the papers to show eight 30-second videos from each game, as they happen, except for those games kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon.

Videos from those games will be available from 5:15pm using the newspapers' subscription-based smartphone and tablet apps.

60-second highlights clips from each game will also appear online on Monday morning and stay up for a week on The Sun and The Times' websites.

Straight into the (pay)wall

The deal replaces the one currently held by the ESPN Goals app, which brought free highlights as the action happened, and the agreement with Yahoo that brought free highlights packages to its website.

Unfortunately, this means that no more free access via smartphone and tablet apps, as both The Sun and The Times apps sit behind monthly firewalls. For The Times, a 30-day subscription costs £9.99 a month.

The Times' website is also inaccessible to non-subscribers, but The Sun is yet to start charging for access to its .co.uk portal, so at least highlights will be visible there (if you're able to bear visiting that site).

ESPN vs Murdoch - Away win

Murdoch already has the Lion's share of live television games for the 2013/14 season, with Sky Sports - 39.1 per cent owned by the Aussie mogul - predictably winning the race to show 116 games.

BT was able to outbid ESPN for the remaining 38 live fixtures.

BBC's Match of the Day show, has retained its rights to show terrestrial highlights shows.

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