All posts by Chris Tribbey

When Michael Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College, takes the stage Oct. 18 for the HITS Fall: Digipa... More

Culver City, Calif.-based media and entertainment quality-control specialist 3rd i QC announced Sept. 20 that it was opening a dedicated virtual reality and augmented reality QC sp... More

Hybrid cloud enablement company Avere Systems has launched a new storage system geared toward media and entertainment companies, one that combines network-attached storage (NAS) an... More

The co-authors of a new book that looks at the importance of big data for entertainment companies dealing with an increasingly competitive landscape will both be on hand Oct. 18 in... More

IBM has announced an expansion of its global footprint for delivering mobile security-as-a-service (MaaS) via the IBM Cloud. Through the deployment of new IBM MaaS360 services a... More

Kicking off its OpenWorld business and technology conference Sept. 18, Oracle announced it’s acquiring Palerra, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based tech company that focuses on providing... More

Nearly half of consumers now have either a streaming devices, an internet-connect TV or both, with nearly 40% owning the former, including an Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku... More

A pair of MESA (Media & Entertainment Services Alliance) members have formed a partnership that aims to develop faster master data management (MDM) solutions, tackling data challen... More

Since it first came on the media and entertainment scene in 2012, New York-based DevSpark has had a well-defined business model: design and build digital content companies the best... More

Technicolor’s long touted the uniqueness of its high dynamic range (HDR) solutions. At IBC the company got confirmation. Technicolor’s Advanced HDR delivery system — which... More

Kudelski Group, owners of forensic watermarking technology NexGuard, made a major anti-piracy announcement at IBC: a U.S. District Court has ordered China’s Zhuhai Gotech Intelli... More

A new study from audience tech company YuMe shows that digital video ad campaigns help trigger sharing among viewers, elicit strong emotional responses from viewers, and even trigg... More

So you've sent out press screeners to adoring reviewers at some of the most reputal publications you can think of--I'm talking Rolling Stone, Indie Wire, Mashable, etc. And now you... More

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) is launching several new HD channels in the Indian market to further expand the entertainment options for its viewers. SPN has chosen Cisco Video... More

Just a day after the new TiVo was introduced, the company used IBC to debut a new user interface and to share the results of a survey that should raise some eyebrows among broadcas... More

Before its anticipated sci-fi series “Westworld” lands Oct. 2, HBO went all out with a new promotion for the series: a unique web site that does more than just tout the show, a... More

Following a final TiVo shareholder vote, Rovi’s $1.1 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of the company is complete, and Rovi Sept. 8 announced it was following through on its pro... More

While dozens of members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are at this week’s IBC conference in Amsterdam, announcing new technologies and new partnerships... More

Todd Collart, GM and SVP of Deluxe Digital Distribution, has been to his fair share of IBC conferences. And he sees this week’s Sept. 8-13 confab in Amsterdam offering more than... More