Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA), Hollywood, has taken on representation for DP Christian Berger, winner of this year’s American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award for best feature cinematography on the strength of Das weisse Band (The White Ribbon), directed by Michael Haneke. Berger also earlier received an Academy Award nomination for his work on The White Ribbon….DDA has also signed cinematographer Nancy Schreiber, ASC, whose latest feature, Every Day (written and directed by Nip/Tuck’s producer/writer Richard Levine), premiered recently at the Tribeca Film Festival….DP Benoit Delhomme (1408, The Proposition) is now repped at the Sheldon Prosnit Agency, Los Angeles, for features, commercials and music videos…..Los Angeles-based Sunset Editorial has secured Chuck Silverman of indie firm Chuck Silverman Represents for national representation….VFX vet Pam Hogarth has joined bicoastal Look Effects Inc. as director of marketing. Prior to Look, she spent 12 years helping to build Gnomon School of Visual Effects into a leading educational institution for careers in computer graphics….
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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