Prime Focus Details ‘Game of Thrones’ Breach
On Aug. 4, a link to view episode four of season seven of “Game of Thrones” bearing a Star India watermark appeared online three days before its airdate as an outcome of an ill... More
Cisco CEO: Strong Demand for New AI-Based Networking System Products
Cisco has seen strong customer demand for its new artificial intelligence (AI)-based networking solution products since introducing them in June, according to CEO Chuck Robbins. ... More
AWS Unveils Machine Learning-Powered Security Service at Summit, Adds Hulu
NEW YORK — Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new machine-learning based security service at its AWS Summit Aug. 14, while announcing new cloud service client wins that inclu... More
Keynotes Set for Oct. 18 HITS Fall Summit in L.A.
The Hollywood IT community will gather again on Oct. 18 at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles for its bi-annual Summit, providing 500-plus studio leaders and their technology partn... More
Avid CFO: Company’s Long ‘Transformation’ Completed on Time
Avid Technology recently completed the “transformation” of its business that started four years ago and the company is now well-positioned for future growth, according to CFO B... More
Content Protection, Metadata and More: An M&E Entertainment Day Wrap
More than 300 people were on hand July 25 at the inaugural Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day event in New York City, attending four tracks of programming catering to represen... More
Open Text CEO: Nascent Magellan AI Platform Turning Heads
Less than a month after its debut, OpenText’s new Magellan artificial intelligence (AI) platform has garnered “solid feedback” from both customers and company employees so fa... More
M&E Journal: With Microservices, Anything is Possible
By John Motz, CTO, GrayMeta - First conceived in May of 2011, the concept of microservices isn’t new. Microservices is the idea of narrowly focusing on a single task and is h... More
Microsoft, M&E Execs: Cloud, Collaboration are Keys to Solve Security, Other Challenges
Transitioning to the cloud and increased collaboration are among the keys for media and entertainment companies to solve the security and many other challenges they are increasingl... More
Human Element: Going Beyond the Role of ‘Vendor’ for Creative Services
For nearly 15 years, Los-Angeles-based Human Element has handled most everything a media production requires, from VFX and motion graphics, to audio mixing and color correction. ... More
Azure Media Exec: AI is Making Content Better
Martin Wahl, principal program manager for Azure Media Services, was a big fan of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books growing up. And today, he’s seeing something sim... More
Blockchain Tech Could Make Life Simpler for M&E, Experts Say
Eric Iverson, CIO for talent firm Creative Artists Agency (CAA), can only shake his head at how some media and entertainment companies make life harder for themselves nowadays, whe... More
