| Apr 13 |
Apple App Store downloads soar past three billionOne billion downloads in the past three months and one week.
 Apple announced Tuesday that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide. “Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months–this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.” The news comes nine months after it hit 1 billion downloads, with the second billion taking a further six months. When the 2 billion mark was reached, Apple also announced that 85 000 apps were available in the App Store at the time. This time, the company chose to stick to download numbers only. However, in November 2009, Apple did say that 100 000 apps were published to the store. |
| 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 26 |
NDS talks about whats next for Social TV and Social MediaWhats next for Social TV? Below Mark Groves from NDS talks about whats next for social tv and how this will be intergrated into our exisiting platforms |
| 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 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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| Feb 04 |
Microsoft Unites Software and Cloud Services to Power New TV Experiences
LAS VEGAS — Jan. 6, 2010 — Today at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. is announcing Microsoft Mediaroom 2.0, the next version of the world’s most deployed Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform. Mediaroom 2.0 will enable television service operators to provide their TV services to more subscribers than ever before, delivering more content to more screens than the previous version of Mediaroom — both inside and outside the home. (more…) |
Version 2.0 of award-winning Mediaroom TV platform enables subscription TV providers to deliver more entertainment content to more types of screens, using a single cloud-based infrastructure.
