--Will be Tasked with Embedding its Technologies in Mobile-Device Chipsets
Content security specialist, Widevine Technologies, has appointed Jim Veres as VP of advanced engineering. Veres joins the company from Microsoft, where he was a DirectX group manager in the Windows Operating System division, and where, according to Widevine, he managed teams that produced API's to enable highly interactive, multi- user content. A Widevine spokesperson told [itvt] that the company is hoping that Veres' extensive knowledge of chipset manufacturers "will play a critical role in helping Widevine to secure a content security leadership position beyond set-tops and PVR's." Consequently, Veres will be in charge of embedding the company's Cypher Virtual SmartCard into video-processor, consumer-electronics and mobile- device chipsets. The goal is to ensure that a large pool of portable media players and other mobile devices are secured by Widevine's technology, which in turn, the company says, "will enable Widevine- secured operators to maintain and attract new valued subscribers through high-quality premium content services that are normally prohibited from distribution to portable media players." Prior to his stint at Microsoft, Veres was VP of engineering at Alliant Computer, where he directed the development of that company's parallel- processing minisupercomputers. He began his career at Data General, where he helped design that company's first 32-bit minicomputer, the MV/8000. He holds nine patents, as well as a bachelor's degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
