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tegrate Zong in TVs and game consoles

Zong’s payment system would only require users to enter their phone number

Zong would then send a message to the cell phone number,

established an open platform, “Showtime”, that will allow developers to plug into the Zeebox world.

second screen applications would have to be cross platform and not just tied to one telco or broadcaster

HTML5 apps that can be added into the Zeebox platform

re-conceptualize how one thinks about TV

TV is the last screen to fall as a computing platform

argest computer monitor in our lives,

simpler to use, personalised and social.

iPlayer V2,

main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:

You On Demand (China), Nyoo TV (India), Voddler (Sweden), BigPond (Australia), FetchTV (Australia) and Rogers On Demand Online (Canad

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.

ing TV ratings, the app can figure out where a viewer is in a program and offer up corresponding content on the iPa

Broadcasters like ITV and Channel 4 are investing a lot in this exercise.  It can

lso be inferred from the other online behaviour of viewers with the use of cookies

improve regulations on cross-ownership of media

uthorization of cross-Ownership of Diverse Media

KT, which controls nearly half the country’s internet market, estimates about 1m smart TVs had been sold in South Korea by the end of last year,

Samsung, which aims to sell 50m TVs this year globally with half of those being internet-enabled. LG also aims to install its own internet platform on about 60 per cent of its TV shipments.

SESSION 4: Personalised and interactive connected media

Digital Media Content & Services in the Digital Connected Economy, Andy BOWER, BBC R&D, UK From SmartTV to LinkedTV, Lyndon NIXON, Semantic Technologies Institute International, Austria (presented by Joachim Kohler)

Connected TV and Media Applications, Bettina HEIDKAMP-TCHEGLOFF, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Innovationsprojekte, Germany (presented by Ralf Neudel) Immersive Media for Broadcasting, Hans HOFFMANN, EBU, Switzerland

015, over 50% of requests will be via TV* devices

irgin Media plus other services capable of delivering BBC iPlayer direct to TVs, including IPTV platforms such as BT Vision, connected “Smart TVs” and connected set-top boxes, such as Freeview HD, Freesat HD, games consoles and some Blu-Ray players.