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    Prime Focus Technologies extends CLEAR Operations Cloud to Amazon Web Services

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) announced the launch of Amazon Optimizer for its Operations Cloud module, part of PFT’s CLEAR Media ERP Suite. Amazon Optimizer promises to reduce the cost of transcoding for broadcasters and content owners, while increasing efficiencies–part of PFT’s ongoing mission as it virtualizes the content supply chain.

    With Amazon Optimizer, content owners simply enter their content location, choose the output profiles, select the time window to process the content and leave the rest to Operations Cloud’s Amazon Optimizer.

    “Bringing the power and functionality of Operations Cloud to Amazon Web Services is yet another step toward PFT’s goal to assist companies with digital transformation,” said Ramki Sankaranarayanan, founder and CEO, Prime Focus Technologies. “Through utilizing Amazon Optimizer, users will be able to slash costs and efficiently capitalize on emerging streams of revenue.”

    The addition of Amazon Optimizer comes at a time when consumer video demands and the volume of programming continue to increase with an ever-growing array of mobile devices and content platforms.

    With Operations Cloud’s Amazon Optimizer, content owners can quickly repurpose content for distribution to web, mobile, VOD and IPTV platforms in a cost-efficient way. Amazon Optimizer leverages the scalability and cost efficiencies of public cloud and can deliver file-based video transcoding, auto quality control and compute intensive media processing tasks at the lowest total cost on the market. PFT Operations Cloud uses a clever algorithm, batch.ly built by 47Line, to optimally use a mix of reserved, on-demand and spot instances on Amazon Web Services to meet the service level agreement at the lowest cost. 

    CLEAR Operations Cloud provides one software to to manage content store, processing and delivery. PFT’s CLEAR Media ERP Suite is the transformation solution to bring companies into the digital next world, offering one software, rich in applications that enable workflow orchestration across all enterprise, supply chain and partner ecosystems. In enabling such transformations, PFT has helped content enterprises cut 30 percent of operational costs and gain 40 percent more efficiencies.

    PFT also announced updates to its production workflow solutions at NAB 2016, further expanding the capabilities of the CLEAR Media ERP Suite and enabling content creators.

    PFT’s clientele includes Disney, 21st Century Fox-owned STAR TV, Warner Bros. Television Studios, CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox Television Studios, Legendary Pictures, Starz Media, Lionsgate, A&E TV Network, Crown Media Family Networks, and FX Networks.

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    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

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