July 27, 2013, San Francisco Japanese Film Festival, San Francisco—Director Miwa Nishikawa director and screenwriter for “Dreams for Sale” talked about this latest film. Previous feature-length films include Sway (2006), Ten Nights of Dream (2006) [SHORT], and Dear Doctor (2009). Dreams for Sale (Japan: Yume uru futari), 2012 was written and directed by Nishikawa, and…
June 2013 – At the 50th DAC in Austin, TX, a number of IEEE recognition and achievement awards was presented. One of the awards was the Industrial Pioneer Award given by the CASS society. The IEEE Circuit and Systems Society (CASS) Industrial Pioneer Award honors the individual with exceptional and pioneering contributions in translating academic…
In the evening when Harris Broadcast invited press and guests to a press conference at the Venetian Hotel during NAB 2013, Harris Morris, CEO of the company opened the event with “tonight we will be talking nothing but the future”. He referred his statement to the recent acquisition of the Broadcast Communication Division by The…
March 19, 2013, OTTCon, Santa Clara, CA– Drew Baldwin from TubeFilter held a fireside chat with Lance Sloan from Warner Bros. The main topics included the future of entertainment programming, what is working in digital distribution and what isn’t, the impact of different digital platforms, and future prospects for over-the-top and other platforms. So how…
For the people in industry, Stan Winston was an icon and legend of visual effects. For over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and technicians had been creating characters, creatures and monsters for the silver screen, from The Terminator and the extraterrestrial monsters of Alien, to the amazing dinosaurs of Jurassic Park….
David Sanger from New Deal Studio stated that the best creature art coming from the studios today are a hybrid between physical and digital technologies. “Now with puppets and CGI, the sky is the limit.” New Deal Studio located in Sylmar, in Southern California started in 1995 by Matthew Gratzner, Ian Hutner and Shannon Blake…
“Real Boxing is our biggest success, the most valued brand for Vivid Games so far” – said Remigiusz Koscielny, CEO of the company during GDC 2013 in San Francisco. He added that even though the company developed over 150 games over the years, their recent strategy is to design one big hit game as a core…
February 27, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Strikeforce Technologies about security for various devices. Protecting identity requires a suite of technologies including multi-factor, out of band authentication, anti-keylogging, and separate solutions for mobile security. The need for these tools is greater due to the advent of attack vectors like zero-day, APT, and dynamically…