Digital TV Group speaks out over Project Canvas
The Digital TV Group has slagged off the BBC’s next generation telly venture called Project Canvas, saying there's a lack of clarity and engagement with the rest of the industry. The trade group spoke...
View ArticleDigital Economy Bill could be law by April
The Digital Economy Bill could be made law by early April, as it it likely to be pushed through before the election. The Bill, which is currently being thrashed out on its third reading in the House of...
View ArticleProject Canvas pushed through by OFT
Project Canvas looks one step closer to becoming reality after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said it did not have the jurisdiction to investigate the plan despite complaints from Virgin Media and...
View ArticleChannel Five to pal up with Facebook
Richard Desmond's latest purchase, the UK terrestrial Channel Five, will be the first public broadcaster to strike a deal with Facebook. In a few weeks the 26 million UK Facebook users will be able to...
View ArticleProject Canvas announces it's now YouView
Couch potatoes rejoice, Project Canvas, or YouView as it's officially been named, will be landing in living rooms across the country in early 2011. New CEO Richard Halton has hailed the BBC backed IPTV...
View ArticleASA tells off Virgin Media after Sky grasses it up
Virgin Media has been given a rap on the knuckles after the ASA partly upheld a claim from BSkyB. BSkyB grassed up its rival about a misleading national newspaper and magazine insert, where Virgin...
View ArticleJulian Assange arrested in UK, refused bail
* UPDATE Assange appeared in court later in the day and was refused bail. He's been remanded until another hearing next week. He said at today's hearing that he would fight extradition. Julian...
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Samsung d'amour shows its true colours in Vegas
2011 is shaping up to be a "smart" year indeed if all of these technology companies are to be believed, it's smart everything - smartphones, smart TVs. TechEye sent over a smartarse to Samsung's...
View ArticleUS continues fight to extradite Gary McKinnon
The US is still fighting hard to extradite Gary McKinnon. It seems the accused British hacker, who has Asperger's, is very much without friends in Parliament. The threats come from US Attorney General,...
View ArticleFacebook enters spirit of FA Cup with overhyped marketing ploy
Facebook will for the first time broadcast an FA Cup game on its site, having struck an historic deal with the English Football Association. The partnership, helped along by sponsor Budweiser, will see...
View ArticleMcAfee screams: Beware the Android!
Another day, another security threat report. The latest from McAfee backs up murmurs from elsewhere in the industry, suggesting that as mobile becomes the more common way to compute, with it comes...
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Facebook gambling: Get 'em young?
Just as investors gambled on overhyped Facebook stock before its IPO, Facebook is encouraging its users to do a bit of gambling of their own to bring up its bottom line and further monetise the...
View ArticleGloucester telco to sue YouView
Gloucester based telco, Total-Ltd, is suing troubled digital TV service YouView, chaired by Alan 'Sirallan' Sugar, over a trademark dispute. Total insists that YouView is infringing on one of its...
View ArticleComet crash leaves debt trail
Although the report from the retailers' administrator Deloitte has yet to be officially released, it has been suggested that taxpayers could fork out around £50 million for Comet's failure to raise...
View ArticleSamsung signs deal with ITV
Mobile phone outfit Samsung has inked a deal with UK broadcaster ITV to shove the ITV Player app under the bonnet of Android devices. The ITV Player has not been made available for Android because the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron praises Assange flick 'The Fifth Estate'
UK PM and movie expert David Cameron has praised the bio-flick on Wikileaks' Julian Assange - a man he wants locked up - after viewing roughly half of it. Cameron said that Benedict Cumberbatch is...
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