All posts by Jeff Hyatt
Yangaroo, Academy of Country Music Renew Awards Management Partnership (MESA)
Yangaroo has signed a multi-year extension with the Academy of Country Music. As part of the extension, The ACM Main Awards, Video Awards, Industry Awards, Studio Recording Awards,... More
Verizon Media Brings DOOH Supply to SSP, Completing its Stack for Outdoor Screens (Ad Exchanger)
Verizon Media, the telco giant’s ad tech and content unit, added digital out-of-home (DOOH) supply to its SSP. The SSP launch completes Verizon’s full-stack DOOH offering, havi... More
Why Video Pirates Threaten Viewers, Businesses During OTT Streaming Storms (Synamedia Blog)
The streaming wars have already begun, and with the most recent launches of Disney+ and Apple TV+, these streaming services are in fierce competition for subscribers’ dollars. Bu... More
IBM Security Gives Cloud Identity an AI Boost (SDxCentral)
IBM Security is using AI to boost its cloud-based identity and access management service. The vendor first developed this AI technology for the financial services industry more tha... More
California AG: Privacy Law Enforcement to be Guided by Willingness to Comply (Reuters)
California’s attorney general is not planning an extension of a Jan. 1 deadline to comply with the state’s new digital privacy law but said enforcement efforts by his office wi... More
7 Unmissable Innovations, Latest Technology Trends at CES 2020 (Forbes)
CES 2020, the world’s largest consumer electronics show kicks off on January 7 and runs through to January 10 in Las Vegas. As usual, the world leaders in the development of home... More
Netflix Tests TV-Like ‘Watch Now’ Experience to Start Streaming Without Browsing the App (Variety)
Netflix is starting to feel a bit more like regular television to some of its members: The streaming service began a global test of a new feature for its TV apps Tuesday that offer... More
Q&A With Akamai on the Challenges of Cybersecurity in Retail (Essential Retail)
Biggest challenges facing your retail customers: This is the sheer volume of cyberattacks. For example, retail is one of the top industries targeted by “bots”, which are compro... More
Taking a Holistic Approach to Fighting Streaming Piracy (NAGRA Blog)
With so many providers, consumers are forced to effectively create their own bundles – often at greater cost than if it was still available through one provider. For some this �... More
How Old-School Hackers are Enabling the Next Generation of Offensive Security Professionals (Security Intelligence)
As an industry, cybersecurity has come a long way since it first started in the late 1990s. Back then we didn’t have degrees in cybersecurity from prestigious colleges, because t... More
Teradici, Appsbroker to Deliver Full Fidelity Remote Workstations on Google Cloud (MESA)
Earlier this year, Appsbroker, a UK-based Agile System Integrator and Google Cloud Premier Partner, announced an exciting collaboration with Teradici to deliver high-performance vi... More
Research: Disney Plus Hits 22M Mobile App Downloads in First Four Weeks (Variety)
The Force remains strong with Disney Plus: The streaming service has now had 22 million global downloads of its mobile app in the four-week period since its initial launch, accordi... More
The Pirate Bay Seems to be Testing a Streaming Option Again (The Verge)
Torrent site The Pirate Bay has long been infamous for allowing people to download pirated movies and TV shows. But now, it looks like it’s giving users a new option: streaming. ... More
4 Steps for SMBs to Protect Against Malware Attacks (TechNative)
Cybersecurity threats from malware continue to be a significant risk for organizations large and small. The headline-grabbing, sophisticated attacks of the past couple of years hav... More
The Top Cybersecurity Trends That Will Shape 2020 (Security Boulevard)
As we head into a new decade, there’s no doubt that attackers will try to use innovation against us, but determining where they will focus is always a challenge. Here are the top... More
Will Quantum Computing Make Current Cybersecurity Practices Obsolete? (Tech HQ)
What happens when “colossal” computing power falls into the wrong hands.... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, Dec. 8, 2019 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla has released Version 71.0. Updates are available within the browser or from Mozilla’s website. ... More
Red Bee Demonstrates Video Encoding, Statistical Multiplexing on Private Cloud (TVB)
Red Bee Media has completed a demonstration of software-defined video encoding and statistical multiplexing on its private Cloud infrastructure in the Red Lab facilities at Broadca... More
A Blueprint for Winning the Tech Talent War (DXC Technology Blog)
Digital transformation is impossible if enterprises lack the right technologies. But just as critical to digital transformation efforts is having the in-house skills to fully lever... More