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new use-cases

add value for consumers by augmenting and enhancing the TV user experience

overview of consumers' online activities by connected device type

Qualcomm obviously is a big winner in the 4S, with company now taking sole ownership of the baseband processor position with its MDM6610 device

Phone 4 baseband design win with Intel.

MDM6610 baseband processor

This is the third in our series of six app-related articles. See also: • It’s all about the design. Essential tips from user experience gurus • Mobile applications: native v Web apps – what are the pros and cons? • What is a mobile Web app? Here’s expert opinion from the W3C • The open market approach: Q&A with GetJar, the No1 independent app store • How museums bring collections to life with augmented reality

will an iPhone app deliver return on investment (ROI)

ll you can do are some crude calculations based on the three numbers that Apple releases

37 percent of Netflix subscribers aged 25 to 34 substitute Netflix for pay television

30 percent of users between 18 and 24 are using Netflix’s streaming service instead of cable or satellite

Netflix story just works,” s

8.7 million Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles in the U

6.9 million) own a Wii,

UK gamers today

Asia Pacific fixed broadband subscriber base grew at an impressive rate of 20.5 percent over the previous year to reach 187.3 million at the end of 2009,

10 percent.

study uses the concept of 'face time'

long users actively engage

295 minutes per month on gaming.

Creative services like these face some significant social challenges however; early adopters will have to accept weird loo

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

the YouTube of the spoken word.

prompted media companies to incorporate it into coverage

ear fans' views of the game and armchair commentaries

Ad Age's Small Agency of the Year

special edition Muscle Milk bottle that used augmented reality technology

r demand-building strategy,

Daum Cloud, which provides 50 gigabytes of storage for free and makes it possible for users to view photos and videos from the storage on TV – a similar mechanism

Kim Jee-hyun, director of Daum’s strategy division, painted a picture of bright horizons.

Samsung’s Bada smartphone OS,

video delivery mechanisms

three widely used ways

Progressive Download, RTMP/RTSP Streaming, and Adaptive HTTP Streaming

nice but simple app, the design work will likely take a designer about a week, which will cost you about $6,000. The server side will likely require a developer about 2 weeks of work, or about $12,000. Similarly, the app could be written in about 2 weeks as well, another $12,000. Add $5,000 for project management, hosting fees for a year, debugging, unforeseen delays, and your total budget is around $35,000

nice high end app, like a high-end game, numbers are usually much higher. Design will likely cost you $30,000 alone. Development will be in the $150,000+ range. Hosting fees and extras will cost another $30,000. At the end of the day, your app will likely cost you at least $200,000

Infrastructure: Unless your app does not require any interaction with external servers

Netflix could become the primary subscription video service that many Latin American consumers pay for.

Less than a quarter of residents pay for cable or satellite

Brazil and Argentina — broadband penetration is actually greater than pay TV adoption.

satellite and telecom companies’ combined video subscriber numbers fel

living without the set top box is clearly becoming more than a theory

rise of the digital video recorder, used in 1 per cent of US homes in 2006 and 37 per cent now

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.

able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q

e companies have been losing half a million subscriber

During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate