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App-TV ready for its close-up | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post - 0 views

  • IP-based television providers. Verizon eventually shunned Microsoft, but AT&T bit. So has European giant Deutsche Telekom, as well as Bell and Telus.
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Microsoft expands Zune's footprint - 0 views

  • Spotify has so far converted less than 5 per cent of its userbase to paying subscribers, while France's Deezer has a meagre 0.3 per cent conversion rate,
  • Deezer and Spotify are accessible on iOS and Android devices)
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    Spotify has so far converted less than 5 per cent of its userbase to paying subscriber
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Vudu is Apple TV's greatest threat in online movie sales | News | Rapid TV News - 0 views

  • says Apple iTunes accounts for 64.5% of all sales
  • Apple's market share is slipping: it accounted for nearly three-quarters ( 74.4%) of all online movie sales in 2009. Its competitors are taking a few bites here and there: Microsoft has increased its market share from 11.6% to 17.9%. It offers titles via the X-Box 360 and Microsoft Zune. Sony, which sells movies online through the PlayStation 3 player and select Sony Bravia HDTVs, has gone from 5.7 % to 7.2% in 2010. The rest of the bunch accounts collectively for 10.4% of the market, up from 8.3% in 2009--and that includes Wal-Mart's Vudu se
  • iSuppli said online movie sales increased 60%in 2010, but the company did not release actual sales numbers
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Explained: Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 - 0 views

  • Forms Authentication Control Flow Figure 1 shows the sequence of events that occur during forms authenticati
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Getting started checklist - 0 views

  • (Crawlability, Site Structure for SEO, On-Page SEO, Content & Links
  • Create XML sitemaps
  • Ensure navigational structure can be accessed by search crawlers
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  • keyword rich URL structure
  • Create a robots.txt file
  • Site Structure for SEO
  • internal links
  • logical hierarchy
  • HTML & XML sitemaps for humans and search crawlers
  • Inside the <head> code
  • <H1> ta
  • targeted keywords in anchor text
  • n pointing links to other internal pages
  • content is built based on keyword research
  • produce new content frequently
  • plan how to encourage users to link to content
  • social media plan
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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
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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
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Latest sales data - 0 views

  • 8.7 million Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles in the U
  • 6.9 million) own a Wii,
  • UK gamers today
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  • Table One: UK Sales Forecast, September-December 2010[4]
  • UK consumers are planning to buy 1.8 million new game consoles by Christmas,
  • 2.2 million consumers will buy into motion gaming
  • entice almost 1.8 million consumers in the UK
  • PS3 is projected to sell the highest number of consoles this Christmas
  • 155 million units since their individual launch dates
  • Sony and Microsoft are now tapping into the popularity of motion gaming,
  • Sony PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect are more technologically advanced than the Wii a
  • capture the imagination of casual gamers
  • ntry level motion gaming experience
  • Total number of Xbox 360 and PS3 active consoles in the UK – 8,700,000
  • Market share data based on historical statistics of total number of consoles purchased to date
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Gartner Says Android to Command Nearly Half of Worldwide Smartphone Operating System Ma... - 0 views

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Xbox Live's Major Nelson » A few stats before we head into E3 - 0 views

  • Microsoft has now sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating.
  • Xbox 360 has seen a 29 percent year over year increase in sales
  • triple the growth of PlayStation 3 a
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  • 35 million active Xbox LIVE members worldwide spending an average of almost 60 hours a month on the service.
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Xbox 360 Extends Lead Over PS3 | Gaming News and Opinion at TheSixthAxis.com - 0 views

  • This table shows the millions of unit sales for the current consoles from The Big Three™ during each of the last four quarters and forms the basis for the first two graphs
  • Kinect has undoubtedly provided a big boost to the 360′s sales it is simply a question of whether Microsoft can show enough desirable Kinect games to continue the momentum.
  • Wii’s extraordinary sales during the holiday period make it the best selling home console
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