Project Canvas Reveals DRM Strategy

BBC-led Project Canvas will not be released in 2010 as originally thought.Speaking at Intel's Shaping the Future of TV conference in London, the chief technology office of Project Canvas Anthony Rose has said that that the IPTV...

The BBC Trust was the only potential body capable of stopping Project Canvas in its track and it gave its approval to the scheme which aims to build an open internet-connected TV platform. Back in May 2010, the Office of Fair...

Two US Congressmen have launched a privacy inquiry into a recent change to Apple's user terms of service, which require users to agree to the company sharing information about their location.Micro-blogging giant Twitter has...

Project Canvas has been given the green light by the BBC Trust after extensive consultation, the BBC has announced.Canvas is a partnership between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT and TalkTalk to develop a common internet TV...

Virgin Media has hinted that it wants to join the BBC-led Project Canvas, after months of apparent opposition.Project Canvas is set to bring together major UK terrestrial broadcasters and internet service providers (ISPs) to...

The Office of Fair Trading has given its approval to Project Canvas, the name given to the ambitious joint venture from some of the biggest names in telecommunications and media which aims at building an "open internet-connected...

BBC led Project Canvas, an upcoming video on-demand service for Freeview channels, has announced that companies wishing to acquire a stake in Canvas have until 23rd April to 'show at least an expression of interest in taking a...

UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is all set to examine the BBC-led Project Canvas, after its partners, determined to validate the nature of the controversial project, submitted their application to the regulator. They explained...

Sky TV service, which is run by British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), has opinionated that BBC Trust's 'inherent tension' regarding the 'Project Canvas' digital alliance has lead it to ignore the competition concerns related to the...

Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's Chief Executive Officer, criticised the BBC-led Project Canvas and the poor handling of the whole issue by the BBC Trust, the governing body behind BBC, while speaking at the Cable Congress convention...

A new online television service, Seesaw, has been soft-launched yesterday and goes live today; it aims at bringing together material from the main terrestrial channels, namely BBC, Channel 4 and Five. The three are,...

A research paper by investment bank Morgan Stanley on Project Canvas, the next generation content delivery network backed by BBC, BT and others, said that it could boost the number of broadband users in the UK. More specifically,...

Digital TV Group (DTG), an industywide business entity that include the likes of Dixons, Samsung, Sony and Pace and , has approached the BBC Trust to express its "widespread concern" over Project Canvas. The video on demand...

Project Canvas is possibly one of the most ambitious projects kickstarted by the BBC over the past decade, on par with Freeview which was launched back in 2002, and even more important to the corporation's future than its popular...

Channel 4 and Talktalk have confirmed that they will be investing more than £16 million each in the IPTV venture known as Project Canvas and will become the fifth and sixth partners enlisted by the BBC. The corporation,...