Sound designer/engineer Weston Fonger, whose clients over the years include Coca-Cola, DirecTV, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Colgate and Lexus, has joined music/sound house Yessian which maintains offices in New York, Detroit, L.A., and Hamburg.
Fonger’s spots for Carmax and Hyundai aired during the 2011 Super Bowl. He has also been judging the Sound Design category at this year’s AICP Show.
Fonger studied Communications and Music at UMass Amherst and Music Production and Engineering at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He began his career in New York at Howard Schwartz Recording (HSRNY) assisting automated dialogue replacement (ADR) sessions on projects like The Simpsons and X-Men: The Last Stand before migrating his way to audioEngine, also in NYC, where he worked as a mixer/sound designer for almost five years for clients such as HBO, Sony, Converse, Revlon and Visa.
Fonger’s longer format work includes animation films for Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton, several TV pilots for comedian Dave Attell, Brian Iglesias’ documentary film Chosin, the feature film Aardvark by director Kitao Sakurai, and a film about R&B artist Maxwell titled Five Days of Black. Fonger also did mix and sound design for Green by Sophia Takal, a 74-minute drama that won awards at this year’s SXSW Festival.
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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