All posts by Jeff Berman

Virtual reality (VR) presents opportunities for IMAX, Take-Two Interactive and Warner Bros., executives from those companies all said at the Credit Suisse Technology, Media & Telec... More

Select users of Roku TVs and streaming players will be the first consumers to get access to the new Sling TV Cloud DVR service when a beta program starts in December, Dish Network�... More

In March, IT and business consulting and systems implementation firm Virtusa Corporation acquired a majority stake in Polaris Consulting & Services, creating VirtusaPolaris, a ... More

Cloud services have become increasingly important tools for developers and IT professionals to be productive, and Microsoft Azure has become a major player in the sector by offerin... More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s planned spin-off and merger transactions, designed to further narrow the company’s focus on data storage, networking services and servers, are runn... More

NEW YORK — The transition to video over Internet Protocol (IP) and the rapidly expanding use of cloud-based services stand to bring significant benefits to media workflow, but th... More

Artificial intelligence (AI) will be playing a key role in Microsoft’s Office plans, according to Rajesh Jha, EVP of the company’s Office product group. Asked what the role ... More

There’s a growing demand in the IT sector for faster performance and greater capacity because we’re clearly in the middle of a “data explosion,” and all that data must be s... More

NEW YORK — Chinese TV and phone manufacturer LeEco is planning to bring its virtual reality (VR) headsets to the U.S. market in 2017 and is exploring its overall hardware, softwa... More

NEW YORK — Several members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) showcased their latest products and services at NAB Show New York Nov. 9-10 at Jacob Javits Conve... More

NEW YORK — The importance of metadata and master data was stressed by several media and entertainment executives at the HITS N.Y.C. event, held Nov. 8 at the Microsoft Technology... More

NEW YORK — Virtual reality (VR) presents marketers with significant potential, but also presents them with new challenges, YuMe researchers said during a briefing Nov. 9, where t... More

NEW YORK — Data infrastructure in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry today simply isn’t prepared for the future of programmatic everything, anticipatory media place... More

The CBS All Access and Showtime over-the-top (OTT) streaming services provided CBS with another lift in the third quarter, ended Sept. 30, helping both its entertainment and cable ... More

There are several advantages to moving enterprise organizations to object storage systems, but challenges abound in accomplishing that, according to executives at Avere Systems and... More

Facebook is seeing positive early signs from its artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The company, meanwhile, will continue to invest heav... More

Strong digital HD video content sales and the continued strong adoption of 4K Ultra High-Def (UHD) by consumers helped U.S. home entertainment spending increase almost 4% in the th... More

The strong performance of the films “Suicide Squad” and “Sully,” combined with increased HBO and Turner TV revenue that was driven by subscription growth, helped Time Warne... More

Hulu said Nov. 1 that it’s inked deals to offer Disney and Fox programming as part of its coming live streaming TV service. The virtual multichannel video programming distributor... More