All posts by Jeff Berman

An unexpected rise in video customers, combined with expected strong revenue from NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics in Rio and the hit Universal Pictures animated theatrical ... More

Collecting and effectively making use of analytics and data are important tools that media and entertainment (M&E) companies can use to understand their consumers and deliver the c... More

Analysts had a mostly favorable reaction to the Nintendo Switch game system that the company introduced Oct. 20 and said will be released in March 2017. But while analysts praised ... More

Pixar Animation Studios has been able to achieve remarkable success with its feature-length films including “Finding Nemo” and “Toy Story” thanks in large part to the compa... More

NEW YORK — Despite the growing popularity of over-the-top (OTT) TV services and the ever-increasing number of players in the space, several challenges remain for companies offeri... More

IBM is making “good progress” with its Watson cognitive technology platform, and sees it as a “long-term investment” that will continue to grow as it’s expanded to additi... More

Strong consumer interest in the growing stable of Netflix original content, including the new show “Stranger Things,” was the primary driver of the stronger-than-expected subsc... More

It’s still very early days for virtual reality (VR), but there are many opportunities for the technology that lie ahead … as well as challenges, including market fragmentation ... More

Companies are facing significant challenges today, whether they are in the technology sector or not, according to Jeetu Patel, SVP of Box Platform and the company’s chief strateg... More

U.S. consumers descended on retail stores across the country to buy the PlayStation (PS) VR virtual reality headset when it went on sale the night of Oct. 13, including at select B... More

Amazon finally introduced a full-blown standalone, on-demand music streaming service Oct. 12, going up against rivals that include Apple and Spotifty. Amazon already offered on-dem... More

The Seattle area is turning into a major center for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology innovation, the economic development organization Washington Interact... More

The standards organization Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) Oct.10 announced the launch of two new standards for the recording industry: Recording Information Notification (RIN), an XM... More

Static image recognition is expected to generate the most artificial intelligence (AI) revenue among all use cases on a cumulative basis from 2016-2025, according to projections in... More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sought to calm investors’ concerns Oct. 5, after published reports claimed the company was in talks to acquire Twitter and Salesforce’s stock price ... More

After the recent introduction of the Salesforce Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) platform, the company is continuing to conduct AI research because there is still much more th... More

Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are prominent features in the Pixel smartphones that Google unveiled during a news briefing in San Francisco Oct. 4. The Pi... More

“Three separate waves of pre-orders” for the PlayStation VR have resulted in sellouts, but units of the virtual reality system for the PS4 console will be available for purchas... More

Microsoft continued its aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives Sept. 29, announcing the creation of the Microsoft AI and Research Group. The news came only one day aft... More