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Live Sports Piracy, MovieLabs Spec and Early Release Window Driving Civolution’s Forensic Watermarking Sales (Videonet)

Civolution CEO Alex Terpstra believes the live sports issue is wide-spread, asserting that “everyone that licenses live sports has the problem of illegal streaming. There isn't a... More

Virtucom Group Partners with Riversand to Provide Content Solutions (PRW)

Riversand Technologies, a worldwide provider of Master Data Management (MDM),Product Information Management (PIM) and Data Quality solutions, today announced that Virtucom Group, a... More

Location Data Adds Context for Web Personalization (SCM)

Location technologies can provide another layer of context for serving up Web personalization, but it may require updating systems and strategies...... More

The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here (Forbes)

The critical technology here is computer face recognition. Traditionally it has been pretty poor, but it’s slowly improving. A computer is now as good as a person. Already Google... More

Is Personalized Discovery A Feature, Category Or New Paradigm (TechCrunch)

What do you do when you don’t know what you want to read, watch, listen to or do next? What do you do if you don’t know what to search for? Or can’t describe clearly what you... More

Digital And Data’s Relentless Transformation Of Media Industry Continues (OnlineSpin)

Digital and data are rolling over the legacy establishments of the media industry. Events this week reminded us once again of the relentless, never-ending transformation that the m... More

Beacon Technology: The Where, What, Who, How and Why (Forbes)

Retail is probably the most often cited example of an industry employing beacons, with heavy hitters like Macy’s and Lord & Taylor deploying them in their stores. But retail repr... More

The Impact of Apple TV Universal Search on Content Apps (Digital Ian)

If universal search for Apple TV is widely adopted there are implications for viewer behavior as well as media companies and their Apple TV content apps. They may no longer play th... More

Using Site Search Visitor Intelligence to Acquire New Customers (Digital Marketing Blog)

Site search occupies a unique position in the hierarchy of corporate digital marketing strategies. It holds that position because of the quality of first-party visitor intelligence... More

In-Game Tracking is Latest NFL Dataset (Datanami)

The NFL’s take on big data involves converting high-speed data on each player’s position on the field and converting it into real-time statistics. Those stats are increasingly ... More

How Can Marketers Take Geolocation Further? (ExchangeWire)

As the number of devices used by consumers increases – accelerated by the IoT and connected devices becoming mainstream ­– marketers need to work harder to maintain engagement... More

Adblockers Hit Another Market: Video (Monday Note)

According to a new SecretMedia study, because of ad blocking software, one quarter to two thirds of video time ends up un-monetized. While broadcasters begin to grasp the full vibr... More

Adobe and Livefyre Partner to Bring Curated Social Content to Brand Experiences (DMB)

Bringing the totality of branded and social curated content together is a unique opportunity and capability that the joint Adobe and Livefyre partnership brings to marketers. Accor... More

Spotify’s ‘Found Them First’ Puts a New Spin on Discovery Bragging Rights (Billboard)

Do you listen to bands before they're famous? Are you a tastemaker? Spotify now has an online tool for the earliest of adopters. Found Them First is a microsite that lets Spotify u... More

NFL CIO Expects Sideline Video Streaming for Players, Coaches to be Rolled out Next Season (GeekWire)

The NFL tested video streaming to the tablets during last year’s Pro Bowl, and it also was met with generally positive feedback. Thanks to Microsoft’s $400 million, five-year c... More

Why Live Streaming Is the Future of Fashion Week (Racked)

Email addresses are collected through the live streams' access portals, and social media widgets are utilized so viewers can share individual look images on their social feeds. Exp... More

Why Occlusion is the Next Great Frontier for Image Recognition (The Stack)

The intensity of current research into the field of image recognition reflects the potential ramifications of computers being able to make sense of the visual world, either through... More

The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds … And Big Data? (Forbes)

I love new music apps like Songza and Rdio that help me discover new music and artists I might never have found on my own. When thinking about how such apps work, I wondered if the... More

Neiman Marcus Expands Visual Product Search to Push Mobile Purchases (Digiday)

Neiman Marcus is trying to solve the struggle for customers who can picture the item they’re shopping for but can’t describe it. In order to make the search easier, the retaile... More

Smart Radio Prototype Developed in Finland (Phys.org)

The radio of the future will know the listener's preferences. It will also know when background music is needed and when the user wants to listen intently. The prototype of this on... More

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