BBC iPlayer finally went international back in July, with thelaunch of an iPad appin 11 Western European countries, followed by Australia in late September. And now BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has confirmed that the global BBC iPlayer app will launch today in Finland, Sweden and Demark on the iPad. The UK and global version of the BBC iPlayer are different offerings. BBC iPlayer in the UK is an on-demand TV and Radio service for licence-fee payers to watch live TV and seven days of ‘catch-up’ TV, and apps are available for multiple platforms and devices....

A lot of noise is going on today concerning aninterview on the BBCwithResearch In MotionCEOMike Lazaridis. The Internet is buzzing with talk about how Lazaridishandled the situationincorrectly, howhe’ll be firedsoon and other such remarks. The problem is that absolutely nobody who is making these comments has any sort of context. Though in fairness BBC Interviewer Rory Cellan-Jones does have amore complete interviewup on his dot.Rory blog at BBC, the clip that is being passed around more heavily is the part that was edited out....

Just hours after itsiPad counterpart launched, the BBC iPlayer Android application has gone live on the Android Market, giving UK users with Android 2.2-capable smartphones the ability to use the catch-up service and view video on-demand. Users will also be able to listen to radio, access the BBC’s full catalogue of catch-up programmes, view seven days’ TV and radio content and the ability to series “stack” (a feature previously available via the iPlayer website)....

PaidContentis suggesting that after 12 months of waiting since its announcement and six months after being given the go-ahead by the BBC Trust, a BBC iPlayer app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad could be launching on the App Store as soon as February. The launch is expected to come before Future Media and Technology Director Erik Huggers departs from the BBC and heads over to Intel, coming just weeks after thecorporation announcedthat it was to cut its online budget by 25%, slashing half of its websites and laying off as many of 400 staff over the next two years....

The BBC’s online streaming catch-up service BBC iPlayer hasbroken its own recordfor requests received in one month, posting 145 million requests over the month of December, with almost 3 million requests for the Top Gear Christmas Specials alone. December was the third month in a row to show record growth, up 27% from December 2009, including individual records for the total amount of TV requests (coming in at 89.7 million), the number of programmes served through BBC iPlayer via Virgin Media (23....