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The Mobile World is Chock-Full of Devices, Range in Price and Features
The Mobile World Conference was held this year in Barcelona, Spain and featured mobile phone innovativeness as the main point of attraction. Yet, on top of the mobile devices we have the latest application from Viewdle for smartphone. The facial recognition tool from Viewdle would attempt to smart-tag a user’s photos before they uploaded them ...
MWC 2011: More Tablets than CES?
At the Mobile World Congress 2011, a round of tablets were introduced to the public as most competitors in the tablet market had their own pièces de résistance. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Android 3.0 OS from Samsung impressed the audience through its larger size, a 10.1 display, a lighter weights and ergonomic design. As ...
Mobile Video Infiltrates MWC 2011
More and more consumers tend to leave traditional media behind and move to the online realm, now that it’s better incorporated into their mainstream points of access. The increasing use of smartphones and tablets plays a significant role in these growing mobile video trends. The most prominent growth at the moment comes from Netflix. Netflix, ...
Tablet Market Up for Grabs, Google’s Eye on the Prize
Following the Monday announcement on XOOM being released on the European market, Motorola gave out today the names of the retailers that will be selling the new tablet. The Carphone Warehouse, Best Buy, Dixons Retail Plc and Deutsche Telekom will add on their offer list the new tablet running on Honeycomb: ‘Motorola XOOM is the ...
Mobile Social Media Sector Matures, Facebook Transitioning Nicely
Social media is still dominated by Facebook at the moment, and reports show us that Facebook will maintain its top position in the following period as well. Looking at the U.S., 90 percent of social media users were committed to Facebook, while in Europe the percentage is slightly lower at 85 percent. In 2010, 10 ...
Big Data is the Ticket to Media’s Global Market
Although everyone expected MySpace to rise from its own ashes, News Corp. decided it would be better to leave MySpace to others to manage. MySpace’s recent history might drive others to say social media is lingering beyond its days, but things must not be regarded in such a simplistic manner. MySpace approached its end by ...
RSA Chairman Gets Personal about Cybersecurity, Discusses Cooperative Ecosystems
The RSA conference held in San Francisco revolved around cloud security mainly. RSA chairman Art Coviello gave his view on information security and emphasized that cooperation between companies is the key to best practices and mentioning the term ‘cooperative ecosystems’. ‘We now recognize the limitations of perimeter defenses, and the need for information-centric security having ...
Search, Big Data and Beyond
The latest tiff between web lords Google and Facebook indicates the potential behind big data these days, with Facebook making up a list of 40 approved ad providers for developers, intentionally excluding Google from it. The stakes are enormous in this case, since ad spending on Facebook will more than double to $4.05 billion this year, ...
The Low Cost Trend in Smartphones
HTC and T-Mobile were among the the many Android supporters at the Mobile World Congress event, introducing their latest devices. HTC Flyer, the 7-inch tablet from the Chinese techies, runs Android 2.4, deviating from the current trend of tablets running on Honeycomb. The company did not reveal the price of the Flyer, and explained that ...
Apple Sets Publishers Straight: It Wants Money.
Apple has struggled a bit for its subscription fees to maintain its “fair share” of app subscriptions. Back in January learned we learned that Apple received no money when publishers would bring an existing or new subscriber to the app, but get a 30% share when it would bring a new subscriber to the app. So ...