By Andy Marken

Years ago, the CEO of a very successful client announced he was going to spend a week with the sales people and visit customers, prospects.
After the third day, he returned to the office and said he'd had enough. His reason, "They don't like me."
What he meant was they didn't appreciate his technological breakthroughs as much as the folks who attended conferences where he often spoke to engineers who appreciated the elegance of his expertise.

By Andy Marken

I really like the word innovation it sounds so ... progressive.

And with all of the data Facebook and Google gather and sell about you, you'd think we'd really see some innovative products emerge.

You know, really different, really better. Not just a knockoff with a few tweaks, lower price.

By Andy Marken
When the big studios and networks were in their heyday, the M&E (media &entertainment) industry was easy to find.

By Andy Marken
While cable, telco, wireless, even social sites fight over the "ownership" of the choke points of the internet (infrastructure/spectrum), the M&E industry is running hard to learn exactly how they monetize the stuff they put on your screen.
The one thing they all seemed to agree on at the recent Broadband TV conference is ... it's complicated.

By Andy Marken
OWC Storage Solutions Deliver Fun, Action for Production Team
A lot of us have a story, an idea, a movie that has to be told because things get in the way.
But a few of us have no choice but to set the story free and hope it will be favorably received.

By Andy Marken
Two things drive OTT/IPTV (Over the Top/Internet Protocol TV) streaming content and the demand for bigger, better TV screens.
Sports is one of them.

By Andy Marken
The more the IT (information technology) industry advances, the more it treads over old ground.
It wasn't quite back in Lady Lovelace's day, but there was a time when an IT manager's status in the organization was measured by the number of mainframes sitting in his/her data center.
It was power-, people-, budget-intensive.

By Andy Marken

The Internet – the network of networks – was formed in the early '50s to enable people to share information – initially scientists, engineers and then it was opened to commercial use and regular people who wanted to share.