All posts by Jeff Hyatt

Lockdown Boosts Already Booming German Pay TV Market (THR)

Stay-at-home orders helped lift viewership in German-speaking Europe to 17.1 million in the first half of 2020. Revenues were already strong, with streaming driving a 89 percent ju... More

Film Festival Flix, Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival Announce New Virtual Streaming Channel (MESA)

Film Festival Flix will launch a new Virtual Festival streaming channel for the 9th anniversary of the Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival from July 28 - July 31. Normally held ... More

EditShare, MoovIT GmbH Partner to Supercharge Adobe Enterprise Workflows (MESA)

EditShare and MoovIT GmbH announced today an exclusive global partnership that transforms Adobe enterprise workflows. As the use of Adobe creative tools in distributed collaborativ... More

What Next for the UK Tech Sector? (Business Leader)

Unlike many sectors of the UK economy that have been hit hard by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the tech sector – whilst not completely immune – has been less impacted... More

ATSC 3.0 Could Revolutionize OTA Television, but Only for Broadcasters Who are Ready (Signiant Blog)

5G isn’t the only technology on the horizon that promises to increase bandwidth and drive M&E enterprises into the future of production and broadcasting. Though discussed less co... More

Apple, Zendesk Announce General Availability of Apple Business Chat (9to5Mac)

Apple and Zendesk are announcing that Apple Business Chat is being made generally available. Previously available as a beta service, only select customers had the option to use App... More

The Brain Behind the Google Pixel Camera is Building a Universal Camera App for Adobe (The Verge)

Marc Levoy, the researcher who used software to turn Google’s Pixel camera into a powerhouse, has joined Adobe to build a universal camera app, Adobe announced. At Adobe, it soun... More

Could ‘Citizen Developers’ be the Key to Business Continuity? (TechNative)

Though most efforts around transformation and automation have been driven from an enterprise-led perspective, a centralized effort alone cannot achieve scale. Instead, enterprises ... More

London Boroughs: COVID-19 Shows Digital, Innovation ‘More Important Than Ever’ (CW)

An association of councils in the greater London area notes that local government’s capacity to adopt technology and innovate is essential in coping with the post-pandemic world.... More

OWNZONES CEO Talks OTT, Cloud, New Trends (CEO World)

"The advent of cloud computing has been an unparalleled technological revolution. In our globalized world, it’s created a freedom and ease for digital storage that consumers and ... More

Veritone, WideOrbit Integration Yields Newfound Metrics of Success for TV Stations (MESA)

Veritone announced that its integration with WideOrbit’s market-leading ad management and trafficking platform is driving customer satisfaction, renewals and incremental ad reven... More

Data Center Visibility Drives Cost Savings, Time Efficiencies for Alvarez & Marsal (Data Center Frontier)

A new case study from QTS explores how Alvarez & Marsal — which helps companies around the world address complex business issues to boost their productivity and performance — ... More

Adobe, IBM Team Up on Marketing Software for Banking Industry (Reuters)

Adobe and IBM are teaming up to make marketing software easier to use for banks that face strict controls on how customer data must be handled. The plan is for Adobe’s software ... More

As DAZN Resumes UK Launch Can it Avoid Eleven Sports’ Mistakes? (SportsPro)

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts in July and August free of charge ... More

U.S. Video Game Spending Hit a 10-Year High in June (The Verge)

Video game spending in the US reached its highest point since 2010, according to a new NPD Group report, with sales through June reaching $6.6 billion on hardware, software, and ac... More

Romania is on the Way to Blockchain, Crypto Regulation (CoinTelegraph)

The European Union’s 5AMLD has been adopted as the first regulation in Romania of virtual currencies, crypto-wallets and fiat-crypto exchange platforms.... More

When Working From Home is Much More Than Emailing (BBC)

Vancouver-based Ziad Lammam, says his company Teradici, like other cloud software providers, has seen a boom in business since the beginning of the lockdown. "Finding ourselves at ... More

Upskilling Online: How Salesforce Trailhead Helped IT Pro Transition to a Tech Career (TechRepublic)

Salesforce consultant Aaron McGriff shares his inspiring story of going from being unemployed to a tech career with skills learned on Trailhead, Salesforce's free, online learning ... More

Shows on the Rise: New Fantasy Series Win Viewers’ Favor (TV Time)

Netflix fantasy-drama, Cursed, takes the crown! The re-imagining of the Arthurian legend earns top placement with a rise ratio of 99.9% while the launch of Peacock breaks new groun... More