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Met Office launches world’s first video on-demand weather service for mobile
SafeNet selected to secure subscriptions to online music store
Met Office launches world’s first video on-demand weather service for mobile
One of the world leaders in weather forecasting and climate science, the Met Office is about to deliver the world’s first free of charge video on-demand weather service for mobile.
The new service, powered by the mobile TV specialist, Gorillabox, will be available through its own branded mobile portal. Weather forecasts, updated several times a day, will give you access to the very latest weather information direct from the new Met Office television studio in Millbank, London.
"Taking the Met Office’s position as the country’s leading weather forecaster to new media and building an e-commerce brand is a key strategy for us, and we will be leading the market in weather information through mobile TV", says Juliet Gardner, Business Manager for Met Office Media.
"Today’s technology means we’ve become accustomed to having information at our fingertips, exactly when we want it. In teaming up with Gorillabox our forecasts do just that; delivering weather information that anyone can access at any time. We will be leading the market in mobile TV."
Gorillabox will provide the Met Office a full service, planning, managing and tracking the website’s mobile TV weather campaign. This includes everything from ingesting and encoding the content, and deploying and maintaining the mobile site through to offering advertising opportunities within the site.
Commenting on the tie-up between the two organisations, Christian Harris founder and CEO of Gorillabox said: "There is huge demand for mobile TV and weather has consistently been one of the most successful forms of information on mobile. Only Gorillabox can handle the volumes of video streaming which the Met Office anticipate from a service such as this. The fact that Gorillabox not only designs, builds and manages sites such as the Met Office service but can also manage search marketing as well makes us truly a 360 degree service provider for great brands and content owners such as the Met Office." says Christian Harris, founder and CEO of Gorillabox.
SafeNet selected to secure subscriptions to online music store
SafeNet, a global player in information security, has announced that Datz, an online music download service, has chosen Sentinel Hardware Keys to secure subscriptions to its Music Lounge.
The UK-based Datz Music Lounge allows users to legally download an unlimited number of tracks for a fixed annual rate. The songs are free from digital rights management and can be transferred to an iPod, MP3 player or a mobile phone.
Anyone wanting to use the Music Lounge must subscribe to the service. Each subscription is then protected by a Sentinel Hardware Key, which stores protected information using public key cryptography and 128-bit AES encryption. The keys also include internal authentication which prevents cloning and protects against identity fraud.
“We require a high level of security to protect our assets, the label partners, and the publishers alike,” said Paul Sims from Datz. “Additionally, we want to allow users to access their music subscription from more than one computer and update their subscription in the field. SafeNet’s Sentinel Hardware Keys provide both the security and flexibility to do this.”
Users simply have to install the Datz Music Lounge software and plug the Sentinel USB key into their computers. They are then automatically directed to the online music lounge. The Datz service allows access from up to two computers, and the remote update capability allows users to change which machines they access the service from, securely.
“Datz Music Lounge is an innovative approach to enjoying legal music,” said Chris Holland, vice–president of SafeNet Software Rights Management. “This partnership is a perfect example of how a software rights management solution can be used to manage a Web-based subscription application.”
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