HITS Connections

Aspera, IBM’s high-speed file transfer software arm, will use this week’s SC15 Conference in Austin, Texas to showcase several new innovations for data transfer between computi... More

Thanks to the explosion in viewing on connected devices, media and entertainment companies today have access to vastly more data about how consumers are engaging with and respondin... More

Rovi. Corp. Nov. 4 announced it’s combined three of its products — search, recommendations and conversation — into one personalized service music providers can offer their co... More

HITS, the media & entertainment IT society, returns to New York City next week at NAB’s CCW Conference on November 11 with a three-hour, in-depth program overview of the ways... More

Media and entertainment executives have more technologies and tools than ever to help boost the audience and profitability of content across multiple distribution platforms. But al... More

Media and entertainment executives have more technologies and tools than ever to help boost the audience and profitability of content across multiple distribution platforms. But al... More

Rovi opened up the International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam on Friday with a slew of new announcements, including a new natural language voice solution for content search... More

By Chris Tribbey Last year the popular rock band Foo Fighters did something pretty unique. Visiting eight American cities (Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, N... More

By Chris Tribbey Allant Group has been around for 30 years, first starting off as a pure marketing services company, with a focus on marketing databases, analytics and customer re... More

Intellectual property management software company FilmTrack has launched a new Aspera-enabled end-to-end asset ingestion and workflow tool, dubbed Partner Portal. The new offering... More

Automated content recognition tech company Civolution has completed the sale of its TV analytics and TV synced ads business, Teletrax, to 4C, a Chicago-based data science software ... More

Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced announced new alliance partnerships with Advoco, Inc. and YES Energy Source. As members of the Infor Partner Network, both organiza... More

MESA’s Smart Content Council has announced a partnership with the Midwest Digital Asset Managers Smart Content Meetup Group to produce a series of educational and networking even... More

During LAIKA’s first two films (“Coraline” in 2009 and “ParaNorman” in 2012) the main way the Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio went about sharing video files amo... More

Signiant today announced new features for its Media Shuttle™ hybrid SaaS file transfer solution in response to increased demand from enterprise customers. At many of the world’... More

By Chris Tribbey Sigma Designs, which provides system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for Smart TV and IP-based set-top-boxes (STBs), used the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES... More

By Chris Tribbey As a holiday gift to MESA members, NSS Labs' is offering its report on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for intrusion prevention systems (IPS) at no charge. In it... More

HITS, the Hollywood-based studio IT association, will launch a new broadcast initiative, HITS Broadcast IT Summit, at CCW+SATCON at Jacob Javits Convention Center on November 13. ... More

By Chris Tribbey Cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions company CenturyLink has launched a new blog, one specifically aimed at tackling cyber security issues. The CenturyLi... More

By Chris Tribbey Melva Benoit, founder of consulting firm The Marian Dupree Group and a 20-year entertainment industry veteran, doesn’t blame media and entertainment companies w... More