Jeremy Leeds has joined San Francisco-based production/post/motion graphics/interactive media studio TEAK as senior interactive producer. He will work closely with executive producer Greg Martinez.
Leeds specializes in managing large-scale, complex interactive and web development projects, working with clients on custom designed websites, microsites and landing pages that have included such features as email messaging platforms, robust content management systems, and interactive interfaces.
Leeds was recently at Mekanism where he produced a pair of marquee projects including a comprehensive Flash video microsite and a social network for Harmonix/EA’s popular Rock Band videogame. While at Mekanism, he also had a hand in comedic tongue-in-cheek interactive site for Tostitos, in which users can watch a fictional organization (the National Organization for Legislation Against Fun-NOLAF) rail against the detrimental effects of Tostitos chips.
Among the other clients for whom Leeds has worked on projects are Ferrari, McAfee, SoBe, Toshiba, TheTourOperator.com, Sony, Oracle, Ask Jeeves, Selectica, Emindhealth.com, Kodak, AirTreks and Charles Schwab.
Prior to Mekanism, Leeds was a senior interactive producer at Loomis Group, interactive producer at Attik, and project manager at Landor & Associates, and Fluid, Inc.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
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."
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