Facebook comes out on top, accounting for 38 percent of all sharing referral traffic. This is compared to 17 percent of sharing referral traffic each for Twitter and email.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Facebook Dominates Social Sharing
Facebook comes out on top, accounting for 38 percent of all sharing referral traffic. This is compared to 17 percent of sharing referral traffic each for Twitter and email.
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.
Motorola Introduces "Televation" to Stream TV Around House
Motorola Mobility announced "Motorola Televation," a broadband device that works with a Wi-Fi router to allow consumers to watch live TV on a connected IP device anywhere around the home, whether they are preparing food in the kitchen or relaxing in the backyard.According to Motorola’s 2010 Media Engagement Barometer research, Americans watch an average of 21 hours of video content a week and about 86 percent pay for TV service. Furthermore, in May 2011, Motorola conducted focus groups with consumers in the New York and Los Angeles metro markets. In many cases, consumers liked the idea of watching live TV somewhere other than a traditional family room and felt it would allow them to spend more time with loved ones if they had the ability to watch different programs in the same room.
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.
HP Working On Cloud Service For TouchPad
HP is reportedly working on an iCloud-like service for its new TouchPad tablet that will allow users to stream and download movies and music. Given that media consumption is a popular activity on tablets, if a brand wants to sell tablets, an in-house content storage, rental or purchase service is an obvious asset.
The service may work a lot like Sony's Qriocity, the service that allows users an all-you-can eat package of music and movies.
The service may work a lot like Sony's Qriocity, the service that allows users an all-you-can eat package of music and movies.
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 Chromebook Launch June 15
With so much attention focused on tablets, the new Google Chromebook is not likely to get as much attention from technology-forward observers, in part because of the "post-PC" thinking that now dominates much of the computing industry.
But tablets aren't always, maybe rarely, a fully functional substitute for a PC. Many tablets are used only at home or in offices where there is Wi-Fi connectivity, and primarily for light text entry such as email, and mostly for other forms of content consumption.
"Heavy lifting" in terms of content creation still occurs on PCs. But tablets have some advantages that Chromebook will also feature, for users who have "heavy lifting" chores and must rely on a PC. Chromebooks will boot up in eigher seconds, Google says.
If you talk to iPad users, one of the advantages quickly noted is that such devices boot up fast. The other issue is that Chromebooks are optimized for web use, cloud apps and storage, and will be most useful for people who do content creation, but "live on the web."
Chromebooks also will update automatically, when powered up and connected to Wi-Fi or 3G mobile networks.
read more here
But tablets aren't always, maybe rarely, a fully functional substitute for a PC. Many tablets are used only at home or in offices where there is Wi-Fi connectivity, and primarily for light text entry such as email, and mostly for other forms of content consumption.
"Heavy lifting" in terms of content creation still occurs on PCs. But tablets have some advantages that Chromebook will also feature, for users who have "heavy lifting" chores and must rely on a PC. Chromebooks will boot up in eigher seconds, Google says.
If you talk to iPad users, one of the advantages quickly noted is that such devices boot up fast. The other issue is that Chromebooks are optimized for web use, cloud apps and storage, and will be most useful for people who do content creation, but "live on the web."
Chromebooks also will update automatically, when powered up and connected to Wi-Fi or 3G mobile networks.
read more here
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.
Can Mobile Phones Interfere with Aircraft Safety?
A report by the International Air Transport Association, a trade group representing more 230 passenger and cargo airlines worldwide, documents 75 separate incidents of possible electronic interference that airline pilots and other crew members believed were linked to mobile phones and other electronic devices. The report covers the years 2003 to 2009 and is based on survey responses from 125 airlines that account for a quarter of the world's air traffic.
Twenty-six of the incidents in the report affected the flight controls, including the autopilot, autothrust and landing gear. Seventeen affected navigation systems, while 15 affected communication systems. Thirteen of the incidents produced electronic warnings, including “engine indications.” The type of personal device most often suspected in the incidents were cell phones, linked to four out of ten.
Twenty-six of the incidents in the report affected the flight controls, including the autopilot, autothrust and landing gear. Seventeen affected navigation systems, while 15 affected communication systems. Thirteen of the incidents produced electronic warnings, including “engine indications.” The type of personal device most often suspected in the incidents were cell phones, linked to four out of ten.
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.
Samsung and Apple to end Nokia's smartphone reign | Reuters
Samsung Electronics will become the world's largest smartphone maker in the second quarter of 2011, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura analysts believe. Nomura also sees also Apple overtaking Nokia, pushing the Finnish company to number three in the rankings.
'Nokia looks set to relinquish its smartphone crown to Samsung and Apple,' Nomura analysts said in a research note. Research firms Gartner and Canalys both said they saw Nokia, which created the smartphone market with its 1996 launch of the Communicator model, losing smartphone volume leadership later this year.
'Nokia looks set to relinquish its smartphone crown to Samsung and Apple,' Nomura analysts said in a research note. Research firms Gartner and Canalys both said they saw Nokia, which created the smartphone market with its 1996 launch of the Communicator model, losing smartphone volume leadership later this year.
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.
Social Media Doesn't Fix Crummy Products
For the last half decade, we’ve had it beaten over our heads that "it’s all about the conversation." That all a company has to do is "be social," to throw up a Twitter and Facebook account, and they have passed the marketing test.Of course, this is utter crap, says consultant Mack Collier. "If your product sucks today, it will still suck tomorrow if you start using social media," he says. "The only difference is that more people will know about it."
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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