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The Red-Hot Smartphone Market Gets Hotter, in 3D!

I know, not more on 3D right?  Well, it goes in conjunction with our post from last week on the ever-expanding number of smartphone options, and the need for handset manufactures to separate themselves from the pack by offering new products that are easy to use – preferably ones that work seamlessly with the devices [...]

World Cup was a Mobile TV Success, Will Music Videos be Next?

Last month, we talked about a ton of cool ways to view the World Cup on any screen. This year’s festivities really took advantage of some serious advances in technology and communication—especially when it came to mobile devices that allowed fans to watch matches whenever and wherever they wanted.

We were pretty impressed with the amount [...]

The Army of Smartphones is Growing

Financial Times posted an interesting article last week about the war that’s currently raging among smart phone makers.  Mobile devices are getting stronger and more diverse by the day, but which company will come out on top? With Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Google and others crowding the market, the business world is hard at work trying [...]

Post Holiday News Round up

Catching up on the RSS feeds after the long weekend.  Here’s what we found:

Global Future of TV to be Shaped by Twitter and Facebook (Utalk, 2 July) Facebook and Twitter are fighting for key roles in the worldwide television market, particularly TV advertising and pay-TV, as Internet-connected television makes TV into a social [...]

Weekly News Roundup

Here’s what we were reading this week…..

ESPN’s World Cup content yields 8 million mobile views (FierceWireless, 14 June)

Interactive TV Trivia Challenge (ITVT, 17 June) Fun trivia questions!

Is TV the Next Domino To Fall? (Connected Planet, 17 June)

TV Widgets to Generate Over $1.7B by 2013 (IPTV News, 17 June)

Top 20 Mobile Phones in the US (WebProNews, [...]

More Evidence of Device Multi-tasking: Remote Controls

Last week we talked about being able to perform one action on multiple devices (which we talk about a lot here). Well, Monday morning reading shoves an example of being able to perform multiple actions on one device in my face.

Agora Media reported on a new generation of remote controls that allows you to [...]

Cellphones: Used for Data more than Calls

Looks like it’s an NYT week around here.  Another good article on how cellphones are being used now, but not for calling.  A few stats:

For example, although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government [...]

Wannabees

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From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Main Entry: wan·na·be

Variant(s): also wan·na·bee \ˈwä-nə-ˌbē\

Function: noun

Etymology: from the phrase want to be

Date: 1981

1 : a person who wants or aspires to be someone or something else or who tries to look or act like someone else
2 : something (as a company, city, or product) intended [...]

News Round up of the Week

Another good batch of news for this week….

2010 Digital Election attracts a new generation of voters (GoMoNews, 5 May 2010): Social participation and the British Elections.

Taking “Unlimited” to the max with the iPad/AT&T torture test (MobileCcrunch, 5 May 2010): How far is AT&T willing to let you go with ‘unlimited’ plans?

Social TV  – Time [...]

Mobile Device User Input and Interacting with Data

Over on Fierce Wireless, Ramon T Llamas wrote a great piece about how people input data on mobile phones nowadays (“IDC: The future of mobile device input,” 3 May 2010). He spoke about the shift from alphanumeric keypads to the inclusion of Qwerty or SureType keypads on current mobile phones, and how this shift [...]