Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
Read MoreWhat makes the Weinstein Company's strategy for the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" sequel truly unusual is that the film is bypassing all transactional windows -- from theaters to DVD sales and rentals to pay-per-view -- and going straight into a subscription window.…
Read MoreTechnology companies seem to be having thoughts about their efforts to engage directly in the political process.…
Read MoreComcast's earlier swagger seems to have given way to peevishness as it lashes out at critics of the Time Warner Cable merger.…
Read MoreIntroducing the net neutrality roundtables, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler fairly begged the panelist to put aside their talking points "so that we can search for the equities in this complex issue." Good luck with that.…
Read MoreThe timing of the announcements of Apple's and Amazon's family sharing plans is not likely a coincidence. In fact, both companies have been working on the idea in parallel for several years, and the first public hints of the plans surfaced within a month of each other in early 2013.…
Read MoreInsofar as the internet can be used to distribute video there's no obvious reason to think the historical dynamic between content and distribution won't eventually assert itself as the IPTV market matures.…
Read MoreWhile Intel was never able to get its ambitious OnCue OTT service off the ground, Verizon, which acquired the OnCue assets in January, may be closer to succeeding by refocusing the service on mobile devices.…
Read MoreGigaom readers were strongly positive on the prospects for the Apple Watch but questions remain on price and user interface.…
Read MoreStructure Connect, the third and final installment of Gigaom’s 2014 Structure series, comes to San Francisco October 21 and 22 with a comprehensive look at the internet of things.…
Read MoreContrary to its popular image, Apple's successes have more often come from fixing what's broken than from building anew. And that puts today's credit card payment system right in Apple's wheelhouse.…
Read MoreWith the industry now preparing to make the leap from HD to 4K Ultra-HD a pair of announcements this week at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin suggested we could be in for more DRM drama.…
Read MoreTracking customers through today's data-driven shopping journey provides retailers a fresh take on doing business and the chance to deliver the best customer experience and build loyalty.…
Read MoreThe FCC's new CTO has argued for an approach to net neutrality that is more concerned with restraining anti-competitive behavior in network management and rent-seeking by ISPs than with the open-access, innovation or free-speech aspects of the current debate.…
Read MoreThe growing interest in live programming among ad-supported online video platforms mirrors its growing importance to the traditional TV economy.…
Read MoreNow there is more premium video content and ad inventory available online, and brand marketers are starting to experiment with digital techniques to capture the efficiencies and targeting ability offered by programmatic buying, particularly as audiences fragment across screens.…
Read MoreAs digital takes an increasingly large chunk of marketing and advertising spending, major enterprise software and CRM players, as well as digital marketing specialists, are putting together suites of products in an effort to provide marketing-technology platforms.…
Read MoreNone of those purported public-interest benefits of Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable is any more transaction-specific than the objections raised by opponents.…
Read MoreThread offers enough compelling advantages in the long term that we will see a significant portion of the market evaluate the technology and ultimately adapt it into their products.…
Read MoreOne area where Amazon could still gain an edge on Google in online advertising is video advertising, which could explain its reported interest in Twitch.tv.…
Read MoreI was passed on to a supervisor. Then to another supervisor, and another and another. We went round and round for weeks. Weeks turned into months, during which I was still being sent two bills, while I vainly sought someone with enough authority to sell me what I was pleading to buy.…
Read MoreThe ride-share operator's new delivery service takes a wrong turn in navigating local politics.…
Read MoreWhile online personalization has been around for a while, only now are things really lining up for implementing it in a truly meaningful way for consumers online, in stores, and interacting with smartphones.…
Read MoreInformation on the internet passes through many layers on its way to us, any one of which can act as a filter and many already do.…
Read MoreStreaming services today increasingly are looking to personalized playlists to differentiate themselves and maintain user engagement.…
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