Innovision Optics Teams with Vinten Radamec and Robotic Camera Control

Innovision Optics and Vinten Radamec, a Vitec Group brand, announce a collaboration to explore bringing Innovision’s camera tracking systems under the control of Vinten Radamec’s control systems. “We’ve been excited about working with Vinten Radamec since we began talking a few years ago,” said Mark Centkowski, Innovision Optics president. Innovision makes a number of robotic […]

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Band Pro to Distribute SI-2K Camera

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Silicon Imaging, the developer of the award winning SI-2K Digital Cinema camera and Stereo 3D recording systems, has named Burbank-based Band Pro Film and Digital to be its exclusive distributor in the United States and Latin America. “We’re very excited about our newest strategic partnership to expand our sales and service for the SI-2K Cinema […]

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Petrol Inflatable Airline Bag Scores Awards at NAB

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At the NAB 2009 convention, Petrol, a Vitec group brand, once again proved that in this day of high tech gadgetry sometimes the simplest innovation is the best. Visitors to the busy NAB booth murmured, “Why didn’t I think of that?” when they saw the demonstration of the new Petrol Inflatable Airline Bag. Numerous prestigious […]

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Pomfort releases SilverStack Suite v1.5 with ARRIRAW support

Munich – Pomfort SilverStack v1.5 adds support for the ARRIRAW format from D-21 ARRI digital film cameras to their production-proof application suite. SilverStack is one of the first applications to support a digital dailies workflow with QuickTime-support for the hi-end digital movie camera from ARRI. In the new version SilverStack also got a polished user […]

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Boris FX Adds EPS Extrusion Filter to Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE

Marlborough MA – May 6, 2009 – Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced that Boris Continuum Complete 6.0.1 AE is now available as a free update for Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE customers. The BCC 6.0.1 AE update adds a new EPS extrusion filter as well […]

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Brand Threat Management in the Age of Cyberscamming

by:Joseph Mann Is the soft global economy eroding brand value? A new study by theCMO Councilseems to say so. Their global audit of 306 marketers titled “Protection From Brand Infection” reports that trademark infringement and brand knockoff artists are moving increasingly online. According to Frederick Felman, chief marketing officer ofMarkMonitor, a brand reputation protection solutions […]

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MLUC09: Future Trends in Information Access

“We have to know about our customers better because by 2012, it’s likely that75% of the contentwe interact with will be delivered to us based on what is known about us.” saysWhit Andrews, Vice President of Enterprise Search at Gartner. “We’re All Publishers Now” Andrews opened day two of theMarkLogic User Conferencewith a humorous story […]

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Google Becomes Best Evangelist for Semantic Web

Image via CrunchBase After years of quiet indifference to Sir Tim Bern Lee’s initiative to restructure the data published on the web into a more useful and accessible architecture, Google has taken the extraordinary turn of becoming the industry’s premier evangelist for Semantic mark up. For those who need a brief refresher course, theSemantic Webis […]

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Disruptive technology/innovation

From Economist.com In his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, Clayton Christensen (seearticle) made a distinction between two different types of technology that affect business, a distinction that has since become accepted wisdom. On the one hand he described what he called “sustaining technologies”, technological developments that help organisations to make marginal improvements in what they are […]

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nanoFlash recorder: Now lower price, and more features

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Convergent Design has announced a price reduction on their nanoFlash recorder, which we covered during the NAB on April 21st. Now the list price is US$2995 and more features have been added, including an analog audio input, over/undercrank, and native recording of 720p23.976/25/29.97 which comes from the camera with pulldown over 50p or 59.94p. In […]

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