| Apr 22 |
Android on your iPhone?Bored with iPhone OS? Frustrated by Apple’s death-grip platform control? Well David “planetbeing” Wong may have an answer for you. He’s successfully dual-booted Android on an iPhone. Yes, really! In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look on, in slack-jawed amazement. It would appear that a way to run the Android OS on an iPhone has been discovered. This is massive news for iPhone users waiting for the new iPhone OS 4.0 and all the features that are available with that platform. Googles platform has been hard on the heels of Apple for quite sometime, and despite some good features has so far been shunned in favour of the iPhone OS. Android however has seen a growing interest over the past few months with many predictng 2010 to be the year of Android. The Android App sotre now has in the region of 30,000 apps with 9000 apps added in March alone. News of a way to run Android on an iPhone will only fuel speculation that Android is becoming the must have OS for your smart phone. For more information on this story visit http://blogs.computerworld.com/15980/android_on_your_iphone_theres_an_app_for_that?source=rss_blogs. |
| Apr 13 |
Consumers will spend $6.2 billion on mobile apps this yearApplication stores will exceed 4.5 billion downloads in 2010  App Store Consumers will spend $6.2 billion in 2010 in mobile application stores while advertising revenue is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide, according to Gartner. Analysts said mobile application stores will exceed 4.5 billion downloads in 2010, eight out of ten of which will be free to end users. Gartner forecasts worldwide downloads in mobile application stores to surpass 21.6 billion by 2013. Free downloads will account for 82 per cent of all downloads in 2010, and will account for 87 per cent of downloads in 2013. |
| Apr 08 |
The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive
There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions that are either hand-crafted or purchased and then imposed on all. It’s been this way for at least three decades, but now this aging and inadequate process is beginning to improve. (more…) |
| Apr 08 |
First Look: Digg for iPhone Launches in App Store
Social news aggregator Digg.com has released its free iPhone app in the App Store. Packed with a slick, feature-rich interface, the app is a strong start for the popular website, though there’s plenty of room for it to grow. (more…) |
| Feb 25 |
The Social Shindig ‘Official Networking Party’ The Social Shindig party, the official networking party of Social Media World Forum will be taking place on the middle evening of the event.All conference pass delegates are invited to head over to the Archangel venue situated opposite the Kensington Royal Garden Hotel. The venue is a10 min walk from Olympia & The Hilton Olympia Hotel – the official event hotel and 5 m ins from High Street Kensington Tube Station.In true party style, a free bar will run at the start of the evening with the added feature of an ice luge – perfect touch for some chilled networking at the end of an action packed day. (more…)
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| Feb 24 |
Monterosa confirm participation @ Social TV ForumMonterosa (www.monterosa.co.uk) have confirmed their attendance at the Social TV Forum Europe, (www.social-tv.net) taking place on the 15/16th March 2010 at Olympia, London. Monterosa are a creative and technology company based in central London. We’re a team of experienced producers, project managers, software engineers and designers with range of backgrounds backgrounds in broadcast, advertising, games and software development. We work with media owners, production companies and brands to build realtime social tools, games and experience that push boundaries, drive engagement and deliver your objectives. Working across entertainment, sport, factual campaigns and children’s content, we create award-winning cross-platform products which use innovative but robust technology to bring them to life. Monterosa’s clients include the BBC, Channel 4, The Telegraph, Natural England, Oxfam and BBH. |
| Feb 24 |
Share that precise moment in a video clip or programme. Viewers of content on Ooyala players can now share only a particular part or snippet from a video.Ooyala’s player has always supported sharing to popular social networks sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Ooyala now supports deep linking which allows a viewer to share only a particular video within a playlist or a specific scene within a video. These deep linking sharing options are available for its player embeds, its sharing links to social networking sites, as well as the newly released URL link, also available in the player. What’s great about this is that it does not require any custom development work. A publisher can easily enable the various sharing options in Backlot for all their viewers. Ooyala has also enhanced and added new sharing options to social networks. When sharing content to Twitter, can now include the title of the video and a shortened URL in order to ensure that the tweet conforms to the 140 character limit which Twitter imposes. Ooyala is a leading video technology company, for details visit www.ooyala.com/blog |
| Feb 22 |
We are in the midst of a revolution – a revolution that is being driven, like all before it, by the desire to connect.Buongiorno Mobile Communication, like the printing press, personal transportation and the advent of mass media – is delivering new levels of personal independence, choice and opportunity. Through the most popular gadget in history, billions of people are beginning to interface with their world in completely new ways. More than 3 billion people now carry personal mobile devices, which can offer far more than just voice and text.
Social networking has clearly been an exciting, if unexpected, success on the web. This success has attracted hundreds of millions of users who connect to each other on their own terms, actively creating content and defining the links between this content. Social networking has proven to be the natural expression for the Web 2.0 movement, allowing users to wrestle the publishing power from established media to become both consumer and supplier. (more…) |
| Feb 11 |
Mobile Cloud Computing Workshops: Applications, Networks, Handsets & Social Media Apps in the CloudThe Cloud Computing Congress (http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com/), has just announced a range of free to attend workshops on mobile cloud computing, co-located with the Mobile Social Media forum (http://www.mobilesocial-networking.com/). The workshops examine why mobile and cloud computing are the perfect fit, and how this can be used to generate the next generation mobile experience. The workshops also cover practical demo of hybrid and mobile cloud computing, and how core functionality can be expanded to mobile devices for the cloud. View the free to attend workshops here: http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com/exhibition/workshops.html (more…) |
| Feb 05 |
Social TV & Mobile Social Media Speaker Line-Up Announced.Speaker line-up announced at the London Social Media Events. 200 confirmed speakers across the conferences. See our full line-up below. Speakers @ Social TV & Mobile Social Media 15/16th March include – http://www.social-tv.net & http://www.mobilesocial-networking.com
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