All posts by Jeff Berman
Azure Helped Drive Microsoft Q1 Growth as the Company Eyes Edge Opportunity
Robust performance in Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business again provided a boost for the company’s results in the first quarter (ended Sept. 30) as a 50% year-over-year incr... More
Creative Cloud Updates Unveiled at Adobe MAX 2021
Adobe introduced several Creative Cloud updates on Oct. 26, the first day of its three-day Adobe MAX 2021 conference, which was held virtually for the second-straight year. The ... More
Synamedia: M&E Companies Should Be Aware of Their Vulnerabilities
Sophisticated organized criminal pirates are stealing billions of dollars of content right from the legal owners’ content delivery networks (CDNs) and over-the-top (OTT) services... More
Creative Cloud Updates Unveiled at Adobe MAX 2021
Adobe introduced several Creative Cloud updates on Oct. 26, the first day of its three-day Adobe MAX 2021 conference, which was held virtually for the second-straight year. The ... More
Game Engines Still a Hurdle for Film Studios Learning Virtual Production
Virtual production has become increasingly used by film and TV show makers in recent years thanks to the successes of movies including Avatar and The Jungle Book and, more recently... More
Ad-ID, EIDR and LMT Tout the Importance of M&E Data Standards
Ad-ID, the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) and the Language Metadata Table (LMT) Working Group highlighted the importance of media and entertainment industry standards and... More
Ad-ID, EIDR and LMT Tout the Importance of M&E Data Standards
Ad-ID, the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) and the Language Metadata Table (LMT) Working Group highlighted the importance of media and entertainment industry standards and... More
ViacomCBS Futurist: Why the Metaverse Matters to Hollywood
The media and entertainment industry continues to adopt augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) and find new uses for these technologies but most M&... More
Disrupting Piracy With Forensic Watermarking With DRM for OTT Streaming
Forensic watermarking and multi-digital rights management (DRM) technologies provide an effective one-two punch when it comes to disrupting piracy and an added benefit is that they... More
M&E Companies Need to Step Up Their Fight Against Piracy
Piracy continues to pose a threat to the media and entertainment industry and it is everyone’s responsibility to address the issue of large-scale content theft. M&E compan... More
Netflix Exec: Don’t Expect the Company to Go on Game Developer Buying Spree
Interactive games won’t be a significant contributor to overall Netflix business for a long time and we shouldn’t expect the company to start quickly acquiring game developers ... More
The Many Forms of Piracy Explored at Video Security Summit
Video piracy continues to have a major impact on consumers, media industries, the Internet and on technology, according to Steve Hawley, founder and managing director of Piracy Mon... More
Female Tech Execs Tout Benefits of Networking, Following Your Passions
Female technology executives from AT&T, Deluxe and Google provided their inspiring career stories and discussed the benefits of networking, following your passions, accepting and e... More
Wasabi Explores the Role of Cloud Data Storage in a Second-Gen Multi-Cloud Strategy
Cloud data storage is a key component of any multi-cloud strategy but major cloud platforms today tend to offer solutions that are “too intertwined with their ecosystem, limiting... More
Female Tech Execs Tout Benefits of Networking, Following Your Passions
Female technology executives from AT&T, Deluxe and Google provided their inspiring career stories and discussed the benefits of networking, following your passions, accepting and e... More
Female Tech Execs Tout Benefits of Networking, Following Your Passions
Female technology executives from AT&T, Deluxe and Google provided their inspiring career stories and discussed the benefits of networking, following your passions, accepting and e... More
The Campaign to Make Mental Health Care for All a Reality
To prepare for this year’s World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the campaign slogan this time was “mental health care for all: let’s m... More
WarnerMedia CEO: DTC Business to Deliver Revenue ‘Unlike Anything’ the Company Has Ever Seen
WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming business will continue to keep soaring, Jason Kilar, its CEO, predicted during a “fireside chat” with Aaron Levie, Box CEO an... More
Box CEO Explores the Future of the Content Cloud at BoxWorks
Box CEO Aaron Levie shared his company’s vision for the content cloud during the opening keynote at BoxWorks 2021 on Oct. 6, including announcements about the future of the Box c... More