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Nick Verkroost

ARM Holdings - business model and licensing - 0 views

  • ARM aims to recover its costs from the future licence revenues of each new technology
  • This would leave the majority of royalties as profits
  • we expect royalties to grow much faster than licence revenues and costs
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  • The licence fee is typically several million dollars
  • ARM receives a royalty, typically based on a percentage of the chip price, for every chip sold by the semiconductor company containing ARM technology
  • average of 3-4 years from the time the semiconductor company signs the licence until they start to pay royalties
Alex Street

Walmart Buys Online Video Service Vudu | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD - 0 views

  • skepticism about reported sales prices
  • my source tells me this will be a cash deal
  • Vudu is an also-ran in the online movie business,
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  • Vudu has licensing deals with all the big movie studios as well
  • everage with Hollywood than Apple, Netflix or Amazon
  • VUDU has licensing agreements with almost every major movie studio and dozens of independent and international distributors to offer approximately 16,000 movies, including the largest 1080p library of video on-demand movies available anywhere.
Rob Collier

Digital Scotland 2020: Achieving World-Class digital infrastructure: a final report to ... - 0 views

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    "4.4 Rural coverage and take-Up With a population density almost an order of magnitude greater than Scotland's, South Korea does not provide many lessons in rural coverage. However, Australia does. Its overall density is 1/20th Scotland's with vast tracks of land populated by less than one person per ten square kilometers and in some cases per hundred square kilometers. As a result Australia has not been able to escape the urban-rural digital divide, which, as already noted, is embodied in its two-track fast broadband deployment strategy. A large 93% of the population will have access to 100 Mbps service, according to the NBN plan, while the remaining 7%--in rural and remote areas-is being promised up to 12 Mbps only.[6]NBN simply assumes that rural and remote areas do not justify FTTH and that they will be served by fixed wireless and satellite technologies. On the mobile side, on the other hand, Australia has relied on competition between its mobile operators (reduced to three after a consolidation) to extend service beyond urban areas. This has generally produced limited results. Subsidies for better coverage have been applied at the state level, however, with Western Australia being an instructive example. Specifically, the Western Australia government conducted a reverse auction tender to improve mobile coverage in selected areas, which resulted in Telstra, the main incumbent operator, securing A$39.2 million in government aid (on top of committing A$106 million of its own funds) for this purpose. Like Australia, Sweden has large unpopulated areas to serve, yet cannot rely on new-generation satellites, which do not reach these areas. Initially Sweden relied on HSPA mobile coverage but it has recently added a national coverage requirement in the context of its 4G (LTE) spectrum auction. Specifically, the Swedish regulator identified rural homes and businesses that need to be covered, requiring 75% of the indicated homes and businesses to be covered by Decemb
Alex Street

Google pleads for more unlicensed spectrum instead of more auctions - 0 views

  • oogle would really, really like to see the Federal Communications Commission open up a huge swath of unlicensed spectrum for mobile broadband
  • company's case for making more unlicensed spectrum available
  • Google senior policy counsel Rick Whitt o
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  • Whitt said that an all-licensed approach to spectrum wouldn't give carriers the spectrum they need to build out common infrastructure.
Nick Verkroost

ARM raises royalty rate with Cortex - 0 views

  • Score said the royalty rate had moved up to 1.1 percent to 1.2 percent on cores from the Cortex range
Alex Street

Mobile Sales Fall While Smartphone Sales Rise, says Informa | - 0 views

  • How will device vendors differentiate themselves? What is User Experience? What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software? How to succeed in an Open Source world How to make money with Open Source The challenges and risks of Open Source What are the major trends in mobile handset OS? Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013? What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean? What is the future for proprietary OS? What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?
  • 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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  • Informa notes also that as more and more value moves from device hardware to software, and also to content, developers are becoming increasingly central to the mobile handset value chain
  • open source components and approaches
David Astle

FT.com / UK - British TV groups weigh up web video delivery - 0 views

  • Some analysts question whether VoD can be as profitable as broadcast TV. The dual costs of piping internet video into the home and licensing content from producers - both paid out on a per-view basis - "may call into question the level of profits that can be made in the long term" from VoD, says David Cockram of Oliver & Ohlbaum, a media consultancy. "More people are taking more of the pie."
  • Broadcasters already have to pay companies providing "content delivery networks" to ensure their on-demand programming reaches viewers in good quality and without loading-time delays mid-video. Every time a programme is viewed online through their VoD services, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other broadcasters pay a CDN provider such as Akamai, Level 3 or, soon, BT.
  • Today, one half-hour programme costs between 2p and 5p to stream through a CDN every time it is viewed. That may not sound much, but with the BBC iPlayer serving up almost 60m TV shows in November, a broadcaster's CDN costs could already exceed £1m a month.
Alex Street

Netflix Stock Slides 10% After Earnings Report - 0 views

  • been downloaded more than 3 million times and is
  • een as way to keep customers subscribed to the service throughout the yea
  • Netflix has already spent more than $800 million so far this year on licensing content.
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