IBM, Philips in Content Delivery Project
Tuesday September 10, 9:24 am ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.S. computing giant IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) and Europe's top consumer electronics group Philips (Amsterdam:PHG.AS - News) have teamed up to jointly develop ways for the secure delivery of entertainment content to consumer households, the two said on Tuesday.
"The aim of the project... is to develop an integrated content delivery solution that will allow easier, safer and more secure exchange of consumer digital content in the home -- such as music, video and games," the companies said in a statement.
With a growing number of households gaining broadband access to the Internet, a number of companies are searching for ways to control the delivery of content and to avoid the kind of online piracy problems that have plagued music providers in recent years.
The two companies plan to develop a demonstration platform to show consumer service providers by December 2003.
