GLG News by Content Delivery Services Experts

The world will eventually move to digital cinema exhibition. It is a matter of when not if and how long it will take. At issue from the start of the transition has been who is going to pay. The exhibitors do not want to spend a lot of money just to save the distributors/studios their print costs. As...

Comedian Mitch Fatel did a great job spicing up the keynote of the IBM Rational developer conference in Orlando today, but there was an interestingly telling moment I’d like to share.

Production-ready it will not be, but Mono project busy beavers expect to provide a feasibility “alpha” demonstration in about two weeks of Microsoft’s recently unveiled Silverlight on Linux, says Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell and the leader of the Mono project.

Alternative content is a great concept for idle capacity in the nation’s movie theaters and is enabled due to the transition to digital cinema. It will be a while before this concept is proven or disproven. The reasons are simple: there has not been much alternative content and the theaters, used to...

The tech world is going to shift as new customers/users come online from other developing nations.

Blockbuster has announced that it will offer all new high definition DVDs in the Blu Ray format on an exclusive basis. Whether or not this is a blockbuster decision by Blockbuster as it relates to the Sony led format remains to be seen. And this will not necessarily spell the doom of the Toshiba led...

Retail gets the fact that they need to support the online channel and they are doing just that. Well, at least they say they are... However, are they doing everything that they need to in order to effectively support this part of the business? There are many inherent hurdles that are presented to a...

By most standards, U2 is a leader in all aspects of the entertainment business, but when major players such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, Disney, DreamWorks and others are involved in 3D stereoscopic movies, U2 is just another name on the list. U2 was at Cannes...

Salesforce.com is the next Siebel, the next CRM has-been, the next low-priced software buyout opportunity, unless somehow the company gets sold before its stock begins to tank or it engineers a remarkable turnaround from its current moribund strategy SF.com doesn’t have a critical mass of customers...

Microsoft announced plans buy digital ad firm aQuantive, which owns Atlas and Avenue A | Razorfish for $6 billion in cash.  This  is apparently the biggest acquisition in Microsoft's history. Microsoft won a competitive bidding situation