Communicating with the world through video contents
Genie, a cloud music service
Genie, a cloud based music service, Olleh e-Book, an electronic book service,
Olleh TV Now.
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other content via N Screen o
Olleh Smart Phone Film Festival
Ustream, KT's global live broadcasting platform
Genie, a digital music application for smartphone
TV Jockey
look up anything while watching TV on his smart device in real time.
V Jockey app gives the same view as the TV
finds anything on TV that he wants to know more about, whether it is about a person, a place, a product, an episode or a line, he can simply touch it on the TV Jockey app
Touch&Pay
can participate in the production of audio books by reading
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
extra cost of adding a second and third smartphone platform is 30-50 percent of the original investment.
Average revenue per paid-app: US $6,259.78.
normal for an app to cost US $50,000 to
don’t get picked by the Apple reviewers, you don’t get featured.
iPhone users have on average 37 apps on their phones
cross-promote your app for free
SMS/email opt-in lists,
media love writing about anything you do;
, mobiThinking is not alone in querying the economics of the App Store model: see Tomi Ahonen.
And this honest first-hand app experience from Tom Hume, a design director at a London agency called IDEO, is fascinating.
What we don’t know is: was it was kept for a year, month, week or day, or did it go straight in the bin.
TWC proudly tells us that Weather.mobi gets 25 million unique users a month.
same visitor information for the app is confidential.
On Demand viewing accounted for more than 5% of viewing in connected homes - equivalent to the third most popular linear channel in those homes.
In less than a year, the total number of connected Sky+HD boxes has more than doubled to 5.4 million, equivalent to 56,000 new households getting connected every week. This explosive growth means that more than 50% of Sky’s 10.6m TV customers are now connected, stretching Sky’s lead as Britain’s most popular connected TV platform.
ability to stream in HD quality has transformed the offering
“dumb” monitors
Retailers are looking to increase their margins
Media companies, too, are spreading their bets,
Netflix,
Technology companies aim to serve all sides
network equipment makers
fighting among themselves over standards.
Walmart bought the Vudu digital media servic
Sonic Solutions acquired DivX
Pace, the world’s biggest set-top box maker, is buying 2Wire to serve telcos
Google’s developer conference
Google, Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe, Dish Networks and Best Buy appeared on stage together to launch Google TV
experimentation.
competing services on the same device
etflix and Vudu streaming movies and Yahoo Widgets
, Google TV represents Google and Intel trying to simplify and spur mass adoption with their own content combinations, operating system and interface,
Google TV as a unifying solution
app developers to target a Google TV platform and end up on multiple devices
Google TV concept allows viewers to find the content they want through search, with results that mix regular broadcast programming with web content, recorded TV and personal media such as photos and music
Google’s Chrome browser is the interface to the web and there is a big-screen version of YouTube
“Google TV is not designed for local TV needs
“Different markets around the world have different requirements,
problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy,
TV industry has a subsidised model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo… ask us… ask Google in a few month
r current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.
Google Chrome and access to the entire Internet, you can easily navigate to thousands of websites to watch your favorite web videos, play Flash games, view photos, read movie reviews or chat with friends—all on the big screen.
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