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Harbinger is not planning to provide services to consumers, but instead wants to strike wholesale deals with established mobile operators and potential new entrants in the telecoms industry

t started reporting falling revenue and profit last year

inability to capitalise on the growing consumer appetite to

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n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.

Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.

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, GameStop and Rockstar collaborated on a preorder bonus in

extend the life of "packaged goods" l

Madden NFL 10, you can manage your teams on your iPhone with a companion App.

category [where EA competes with Nike and Adidas.]" Mo

O of EA, has recently argued that social gaming is as over-hyped as mobile was a few years ago (shortly before EA acquired Jamdat Mobile for $680 million in 2005, I

Valuing businesses based on multiples of unique users is dangerous

ook for evidence that the target market is big and growi

GlobalFoundries

ARM-based major,

manufacturing partners, TSMC of Taiwan and GlobalFoundries

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Intel's Atom-based CE4100

Netflix deal on t

Mediacom's forecast, 35% of all UK media will be ad servable by 2013,

Dr David Lewis from Mindlab International, based at the Sussex Innovation Centre, found that hybrid TV, which combines internet functionality with broadcast television, increases ad recall by 300%.

ARM has design wins with Dell’s Latitude laptops and Lenovo’s Skylight smartbook. Even Apple’s iPad and its A4 chip are believed to be ARM-based.

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Semiconductor IP:

Ninety-five per cent of TV sales will be connected by 2015

, 5.6 million connected TVs are likely to be installed during 2011, r

11.6m in 2012 and to 26.7m by 2014

8.7 million Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles in the U

6.9 million) own a Wii,

UK gamers today

UDU is a revolutionary service, built into a growing number of broadband-ready TVs and Blu-ray

VUDU, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walmart.

company is not disclosing financial terms of the agreement as the acquisition is not material to its first quarter earnings for fiscal year 2011.

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K connected TV installed base will be 5.6m in 2011, growing to 28m - 100% household penetration - by 2014

targeted digital services

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personalised, location-based digital lifestyle services to the web and mobil

chase a subscription to an app-based newspaper on your iPad in the next six months

Amazon.com’s deep discounting

deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,

Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store

brand aimed at bridging traditional telecommunications and Internet-based voice and data services

live voice calls

voice messages to their friends either privately or via their ‘walls

synchronise content around a programme so that what appears on the tablet or smartphone

never.no interactivity suite is directly coupled with the broadcast playout systems and ‘listens’ to events in the live broadcast and fires off triggers to a Content Delivery Network to determine what functionality the second screen will show at any time

ompanion devices, because they are IP-based and are personal by nature, introduce the interactivity and addressability that broadcasters cannot get via the television alone.