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23:51 18th February 2010
The BBC has unveiled plans to offer iPhone apps for its sport and news content from April.
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Erik Huggers, BBC director of future media and technology, said the corporation's audience "want to access the digital services that they have paid for at a time and place that suits them. Today's announcement means that we are catching up with our audiences."
The free applications will be followed by versions for BlackBerry and mobile phones running Google's Android software.
In other news, applications, or apps, for mobile devices will see revenues of $6.1 billion this year, which would represent an 82 per cent of all downloads this year and for 87 per cent of all downloads in 2013, market analyst Gartner was quoted as saying.
"As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores become the focus in the value chain, more consumers will experiment with downloads," Gartner research director Stephanie Baghdassarian was quoted as saying by Computer Weekly.
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