Wednesday, February 16, 2011
YouTube The Next Netflix?
Google believes that YouTube’s future is to market premium content and streaming services to its hundreds of millions of users. Google has figured out that advertising-supported content cannot make YouTube profitable. It needs another revenue source, and subscriptions for premium content access are the likely and logical choice.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Eric Schmidt: Ice Cream Will Finally Merge Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb
Today, Android smartphones run one operating system, while some tablets run a different version known as Honeycomb. If you wonder whether a common version is coming, you would likely be correct, allowing Android to build a more-integrated ecosystem that could have Android smartphones and tablets working together, sharing applications more elegantly and possibly, in some implementations, raising new issues about the "one device" a user finds most useful to carry around.
"We have OS called gingerbread for phones, we have an OS being previewed now for tablets called Honeycomb," notes Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "The two of them, you can imagine the follow up will start with an I, be named after dessert, and will combine these two.”
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
RIM Playbook Tablet
Research in Motion goes with a seven-inch form factor for Playbook tablet.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Mobile Will be a Powerful Ad Medium, But Agencies Will Struggle With Apps
WPP chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell predicts it will be difficult for advertising agencies and other companies to profit from apps, though mobile will become a powerful advertising medium.
Though the app market has tripled in size to $15 billion, the advertising industry overall is about a trillion dollar industry, he notes.
Asked how the ad industry can make the most of the boom in apps, he was cautious. "I think the real answer is 'with difficulty' because it's not dissimilar to what you're seeing with newspaper and periodicals."
The amounts of income are becoming more significant but are highly fragmented, he said. "You have a vast array of applications and a vast array of designs and consumer loyalty is quite fickle ... It's very volatile."
VIDEO: Sorrell on apps, mobile and social networks
Though the app market has tripled in size to $15 billion, the advertising industry overall is about a trillion dollar industry, he notes.
Asked how the ad industry can make the most of the boom in apps, he was cautious. "I think the real answer is 'with difficulty' because it's not dissimilar to what you're seeing with newspaper and periodicals."
The amounts of income are becoming more significant but are highly fragmented, he said. "You have a vast array of applications and a vast array of designs and consumer loyalty is quite fickle ... It's very volatile."
VIDEO: Sorrell on apps, mobile and social networks
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
What is a Facebook Phone?
HTC's ChaCha and Salsa phones feature a dedicated Facebook button that gives you one-touch access to a user's favorite Facebook functions, allowing users to update your status, upload a photo, share a news article and check in to places. Facebook Chat, Messages and your friends are also integrated, so when a user makse a phone call, the screen displays the user's friends' status updates and photos, and birthdays.
With enough customization and personalization, a multi-purpose smartphone can be transformed into a device with unique characteristics and value for users, even when built on a standard hardware platform. If you wonder how a differentiated communications experience can be built, this is one example.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Speaks at Mobile World Congress
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
How Telefonica Deals with Mobile Data Challenges
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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