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Alex Street

FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Entertainment: A pointer to profits - 0 views

  • cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription
  • sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year
  • partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications
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  • But new streaming or “over the top” services such as Hulu were also a factor,
  • For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago
  • etflix’s DVD service has amassed 15m subscribers in the past 10 ye
  • 60 per cent have already tried the service
  • Canada in the next few months and, next year, in the UK, a
  • ernet “thrives on inefficiency”
  • cable TV, “the inefficiency is in the cost
  • 4bn at its peak in the US in 2004 to $10.87bn in 2009
  • sing the money saved on postage as customers shift from its DVD subscription service to streaming.
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    "There's definitely some substitution taking place
Alex Street

BSkyB signs up 3 millionth subscriber to high-definition television service | Media | g... - 0 views

  • 3 millionth subscribe
  • 50 channels are available in high definition
  • total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million
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  • Sophie Turner Laing, Sky's managing director of entertainment
  • bumper second quarter boosted by the football
  • slowdown was predicted b
  • Jonathan Webb, managing director of the Living TV Group,
Alex Street

Android Most Popular Operating System in U.S. Among Recent Smartphone Buyers | Nielsen ... - 0 views

  • Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months,
  • Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a statistical dead heat for second place
Alex Street

FT.com / Management - Apple takes a second bite at TV - 0 views

  • y 8Gb of storage, c
  • 160Gb in the previous version
  • streaming media player
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  • jostles with games consoles, laptops that can wirelessly transmit what is on their screen to the TV, and similar media players f
  • $99 price tag marks a recognition of the stiff competition
  • istances it from the Mac Mini, a small-box computer that some Apple fans saw as a better value
  • enabled home-sharing in iTunes on my PC to share its content with Apple TV.
  • Netflix streaming film service, YouTube, Flickr
  • Being able to access a computer on a home network means anything stored in iTunes can be played or watched on the big screen
  • Many set-top boxes and Blu-ray players in the US offer Netflix
  • losest competitor to Apple TV in functionality is Roku’s box.
  • Roku may lack YouTube but it has more than 85 “channels” of internet content, including Netflix, Amazon’s video-on-demand service, Pandora internet radio, the MOG music streaming service,
  • Apple TV’s narrower content is its biggest weakness.
  • s synergies with other Apple devices –
  • Remote app allows control with touch gestures on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
  • ame kind of apps as an iPhone or iPad in the future
Alex Street

TV market in Ireland - 0 views

  • TÉ1 and RTÉ2, had a combined market share of 36.5% in 2008
  • TV3 (launched in 1998) had an 11.4% market share, close to that of RTÉ2,
  • 61% of Irish households receive digital televisio
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  • Pay-TV households reached 1.09 million (75%)
  • divided between satellite and cable/MMDS
  • cable market is controlled by one operator UPC Ireland
  • Liberty Global of the second operator, NTL and its merger with Chorus).
  • IPTV market,
  • agnet networks, 3Play Plus, and Smart Telecom
Alex Street

The Truth about Mobile Application Stores - 0 views

  • iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace
  • size, store growth, the most popular applications
  • Free Vs. Paid Apps
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  • which application stores have the highest percentage of free apps
  • Android Market was the winner here. In
  • Google attracts the sort of developers that enjoy giving away their works and the open nature of the application- approval process (that is, no review board middleman exists between app creation and public release)
  • ' dissatisfaction with Google Checkout - paid Android apps are required to implement this payment method for purchase
  • U.S. market only
  • okia has the most paid (85% paid)
  • prices for the paid applications
  • RIM and Microsoft were more than twice as high
  • didn't necessarily have to do with the different types of applications
  • Android is now the second-largest application store
  • Windows has 693.
  • Apple is also the fastest growing store with a shocking 13,865 new applications added per mont
  • popularity of applications by category
  • over 1245" Windows Mobile
  • surprising was the popularity of games on Blackberry, the platform often used more by enterprise
  • 9% popularity to only 18% for utilities.
  • absence of any form of review process has led to new forms of store flooding and other variety of spams in the form of applications that are just gateways to websites
David Astle

HOW TO: Advertise Inside Social Games on Facebook - 0 views

  • Facebook is now the largest display advertising site on the Internet
  • online games have surpassed personal e-mail to become the second most popular activity on the web, accounting for 10% of time spent online.
  • Games also represent a huge audience for advertisers, as more than 56 million Americans play social games on a regular basis.
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  • Game publishers have begun to tie virtual goods or currency to “real world” purchases from advertising partners (spend $50 at the Gap, get 20 Facebook Credits, for example).
  • Advertisers can also use in-game ads to get in front of consumers before there is purchase intent.
  • Retail goods:
  • Subscription services:
  • Local advertisers:
  • Survey research:
  • Branded video views:
Alex Street

More Than 1 Billion Devices to Have Embedded Wireless Networking Capability in 2011 - 0 views

  • ents, cell phones represent the largest category for embedded WLAN, with 512.8 million units set to ship this year. Mobile PCs will come in second at 230.1 million units.
Alex Street

Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010-2015  [Visual N... - 0 views

  • number of devices connected to IP networks will be twice as high as the global population in 2015.
  • In 2010, only 3 percent of Internet traffic originated with non-PC devices, but by 2015 the non-PC share of Internet traffic will grow to 15 percent.
  • TVs, tablets, smartphones, and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will have growth rates of 101 percent, 216 percent, 144 percent, and 258 percent, respectively
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  • by 2012 Internet video will account for over 50 percent of consumer Internet traffic
  • Every second, 1 million minutes of video content will cross the network in 2015
  • Internet video to TV
  • Step 1: Number of Users
  • users for each video subsegment
  • 37 percent of Internet video users watch long-form content
  • average viewing time is longer than 5 minutes in duratio
  • Adoption
  • Minutes of Use
  • For each application subsegment, minutes of use (MOU) are estimated
  • he next step is to apply kilobytes (KB) per minute
  • tep 4. Bitrates
  • 7 percent annual compression gain is applied to the bitrate.
  • final step is to compare the results of the forecast with actual broadband traffic data from service providers.
  • P Traffic, 2010-2015
  • Fixed Internet
  • 14,955
  • 59,354
  • Fixed
  • 12,355 1
  • Internet video
  • 4,672
  • 33,620
  • 53,282
  • Consumer Internet Video Communications, 2010-2015
  • Mobile 4 9 17 31 52 97 90%
  • Internet Video With the exception of the Internet video to TV subcatego
Alex Street

120 Hz vs. 60 Hz LCD TV HELP!!!! | PlayStation® Community Forums - 0 views

  • even with higher refresh rates, there are still only 24 separate frames displayed every second, but they may need to be displayed multiple times, de
  • Blu-ray 3D releases will require at least a 120Hz HDTV
Alex Street

Five ways Steve Jobs changed marketing - Marketing news - Marketing magazine - 0 views

  • genius of the iPad was that it was launched when the capabilities of operating systems had caught up with the tablet computer vision.
  • According to IDC analysts, iPads accounted for a 68.3% share of the market in the second quarter of this year
  • Design is how it works."
Alex Street

Chinese telecom firms fight for rights - 0 views

  • world's second-largest telecom equipment make
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    Huawei
Alex Street

China's Huawei: Margins, Market Share and Cisco's Router Business - Seeking Alpha - 0 views

  • Huawei also competes with Ericsson, Nokia (NOK) and Siemens
  • Huawei is currently the second largest telecom equipment supplier globally with a share of 20% as of Q3 2009, an increase from the 11% share in Q4 2008
  • global core router market share from nearly 11% in 2008 to about 12% in 2009
Alex Street

USA Network Builds Second Screen Experience Around "Psych" - 0 views

  • Psych Vision apps are USA Network’s
  • apps deeply integrate with GetGlue’s
Alex Street

BBC - Research and Development: Orchestrated Media - Beyond second and third screen - 0 views

  • Orchestrated Media” t
  • consumers are adding video consumption platforms (mobile, Internet) to their weekly viewing schedule, rather than replacing TV,
  • 2.7% of the total TV time per month involved simultaneous Internet access
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  • 7% of the respondents frequently engaged online with content related to the TV show or advertisement
Alex Street

Miso Sync: A Second Screen Experiment Using Android & Boxee [EXCLUSIVE] - 0 views

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    "You turn on the TV, your phone is on stand by, and immediately you get a push notification that says 'You're watching American Idol. Want to share this with your friends?' … then 10 minutes in, a performance completes and we deliver … a push notification: 'What do you think of Haley's performance?'"
Alex Street

Creating mobile content: a lack of application | Mobile Marketing 2011 | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • second full year that apps have been available, the UK market was worth £95m
  • total downloads of 575m
  • Screen Digest this will more than triple by 2014,
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  • market will be worth more than £300m
  • downloads will total 1.8bn.
  • shelf-life average of just four weeks
  • 51% of mobile phone owners, about 23 million people, use their device to either make a payment, redeem coupons or research products and services they later buy
Alex Street

Move Over Twitter: Facebook Wants a Piece of Social TV, Too - 0 views

  • Facebook users tend to have highly detailed profiles
  • also connect their personal profile to their favourite brands and celebritie
  • Facebook Connect allows users to sign into millions of sites
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  • wealth of data provide
  • page is used as a hub
  • t MIPTV, Facebook outlined four key ways that the platform can be used to encourage social TV behaviour:
  • Building TV Communities
  • og onto the CBS website using Facebook Connect. Instantly, CBS has access to all that user’s favourite actors,
  • One picture had 10,000 likes- the average user has 130 friends on average
  • Facebook is Topgear.com’s second largest traffic driver
  • 2.     Social Check in
  • TV check in lets TV
  • check into each episode of a series
  • see that actually ten of their friends are also watching Top Gear at the same
  • ocial EPG
  • Million Pound Drop:
  • wildly successful Facebook game
  • 8-10% of the TV audience played the game
  • voting is monetised through a sponsorship.
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