BBC cease and desist order puts down iPhone iPlayer app

"We also had support for subtitles - a vital accessibility feature not currently available on the iPlayer for iPhone web service - developed to the proof-of-concept stage. This along with push notifications of favourite programme availability, automatic downloading of favourite episodes and a 'Twitter conversations' ticker were all planned updates."

Camiloo had hoped to license the technology to other broadcasters, so that TV content could have been enjoyed on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.

The company will now, short term at least, concentrate on developing another potentially useful iPhone application. "We're now hard at work on apps for clients, and our next internal creation is a 'Pro' version of our popular Fuel Calc Lite application."

"This will include an odometer which uses GPS to track your car's fuel consumption showing you in real time how much a trip is costing you in fuel."