February 2, 2001 Directors Dante Ariola of Propaganda Films, Bryan Buckley of Hungry Man, David Cornell of Headquarters, Leslie Dektor of Dektor Film, and Lenard Dorfman of @radical.media have been nominated for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for best commercial director….Bicoastal HKM Productions has entered into a strategic alliance with Filter Media, a New York-based enhanced television and convergence strategy consulting and content-development shop….Director Neil Tardio, Jr., has signed with A Band Apart Commercials, Los Angeles….Satellite has expanded its roster, signing directors Christophe Navarre and Pascual Sisto…..
10 Years Ago
February 2, 1996 Bicoastal Johns+Gorman Films is launching a music video division, which will operate out of its Hollywood office, and be headed by managing director Jeanne Mattiussi, formerly of the Polygram Label Group….Quark, a Denver-headquartered developer of publishing software has bought a partial ownership stake in Colossal Pictures, San Francisco….Tim Timpanaro is joining Multi Video Group/Rhinoceros, New York, as executive VP/operations. He comes over from Manhattan Transfer/Edit….Reel FX, Dallas, a visual effects and animation shop, has bought West End Post, Dallas….
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More
