All posts by Chris Tribbey

IT services provider HCL Technologies has named C Vijayakumar as its new president and CEO, effective immediately. “Over the last couple of years, by organizing itself for transf... More

ClearView Flex, Sohonet’s remote collaboration service and part of the company’s Connected Cloud Services suite, is set for launch in November, the company announced. Sohonet f... More

LOS ANGELES — In the 10-year history of the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater — a cozy 190-seat venue, hidden in the bowels of the Griffith Observatory — no feature-length ... More

HITS returns to New York City on Nov. 8 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Midtown Manhattan with a morning conference program from 9 a.m. to noon. This year’s HITS N.Y.C... More

Dr. Shane Pase, an expert on human behavior analytics and director of technology for virtual reality tech company The Lotte Project, sees a problem brewing in the nascent VR space.... More

When cyber criminals Oct. 21 went after Dyn — which provides internet services for a host of companies — they used a a global distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to bri... More

Founded by some of the early engineers of Salesforce, the team at San Francisco-based Okta saw early on one of the main challenges facing media and entertainment companies in today... More

For its first-ever cross-industry event, the SoCal Women’s Leadership Group chose to co-locate with the HITS Fall conference Oct. 18 in Los Angeles, drawing more than 350 attende... More

IT consulting and business services company Wipro acquired Indianapolis-based cloud services company Appirio Oct. 20, paying $500 million for a company that already counts Coca-Col... More

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — At the Oct. 18 HITS Fall event, Michael Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College... More

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — At the Oct. 18 HITS Fall confab, a panel of content creators, talent experts and IT experts all mulled the same questions: what are the biggest challenges fa... More

Walter Schonfeld, the former CEO of SDI Media Group and former president of Technicolor Entertainment Services, has joined Deluxe Entertainment Services Group as its new president ... More

Marking October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and businesses are banding t... More

Cybersecurity research and testing firm NSS Labs has announced the results of its Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS) group test, examining the security effectiven... More

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Famed sci-fi director Roland Emmerich (“Stargate,” “Universal Soldier”) may have made his toughest cutting-room-floor decision ever with his late... More

Here’s a run-down of recent virtual reality-related entertainment items via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. To help promote its highly praised sci-fi ... More

Despite all the recent hype around virtual reality, just 6% of Americans will own a VR headset by the end of the year, or 11.4 million people, and roughly 93% of those headsets wil... More

Cloud technology, new workflows, improving data analytics, making the most of metadata, transitioning from the B2B to B2C business model … Hollywood’s reliance on IT to keep up... More

Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Western Digital and IBM are among members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) that have banded together to form t... More