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From New Media Age, 15th September 2010
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
A Mouse Maker Stakes Its Future on TV Sets
Gerald Quindlen, chief executive officer of Logitech International (LOGI), looked around in early 2009 and saw that the Swiss maker of keyboards and mice faced a grim future. Sales of desktop PCs were falling as smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices captured consumers' fancy. Most of those products don't require the computer peripherals that make up 89 percent of Logitech's sales.
After giving thought to adding digital accesories such as iPad cases, the American-born CEO decided to team up with Intel (INTC) and Google (GOOG) on a $300 book-size black box called Revue. The gadget, set to debut in October, will be the first product to use Google's software for flowing content off the Web onto a regular TV set...
from Bloomberg Business Week
After giving thought to adding digital accesories such as iPad cases, the American-born CEO decided to team up with Intel (INTC) and Google (GOOG) on a $300 book-size black box called Revue. The gadget, set to debut in October, will be the first product to use Google's software for flowing content off the Web onto a regular TV set...
from Bloomberg Business Week
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Ioko secures Samsung web-TV accreditation
14 September, 2010 | By Will Strauss
Sky Player and SeeSaw developer Ioko has announced that it is teaming up with Samsung to develop direct-to-TV web applications for its TV sets.
The accreditation will allow Ioko to help content providers take advantage of the growing market for web-connected TVs.
It is the first time that the digital media systems integrator has joined forces with a consumer electronics device manufacturer.
Ioko recently developed the H.264 video player for Samsung TVs that provides web-based access to movie service LOVEFiLM.
Ioko vice president of media solutions Fearghal Kelly said: “With the market for internet-connected TVs poised for take off, our tie up with Samsun is hugely strategic for us.
“As we’ve seen with LOVEFiLM’s direct-to-TV service, there’s a growing appetite from consumers to access on-demand programming on their TVs and, with Samsung’s range of Internet@TV sets, the devices are available to meet this demand. Ioko will help content providers capitalise on these emerging and lucrative routes to market.”
Sky Player and SeeSaw developer Ioko has announced that it is teaming up with Samsung to develop direct-to-TV web applications for its TV sets.
The accreditation will allow Ioko to help content providers take advantage of the growing market for web-connected TVs.
It is the first time that the digital media systems integrator has joined forces with a consumer electronics device manufacturer.
Ioko recently developed the H.264 video player for Samsung TVs that provides web-based access to movie service LOVEFiLM.
Ioko vice president of media solutions Fearghal Kelly said: “With the market for internet-connected TVs poised for take off, our tie up with Samsun is hugely strategic for us.
“As we’ve seen with LOVEFiLM’s direct-to-TV service, there’s a growing appetite from consumers to access on-demand programming on their TVs and, with Samsung’s range of Internet@TV sets, the devices are available to meet this demand. Ioko will help content providers capitalise on these emerging and lucrative routes to market.”
from Broadcast
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Comment: Small world - I contracted for Ioko for a few months about two years ago...
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Piper Jaffray: Android Army’s Victory Over iPhone Inevitable
"The battle for dominance in the smartphone market will shake out in the next five years and when it’s finished, Google (GOOG), not Apple (AAPL), will emerge the victor. That’s the outlook from Piper Jaffray which sees Google’s Android OS aggressively capturing market share in the years ahead..."
from Digital Daily
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Comment: Mind you, if PJ's (wildly wrong) predictions about the Blinkx share price are any guide to their wider analytical prowess, I wouldn't attach too much significance to it...
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Is Android Only Surging Because Apple Is Letting It?
This weekend, I’ve been catching up on some reading. One post that was of particular interest to me was David Beach’s article from last week about developing for Android. Beach, who is a product manager at eBay Mobile and a co-founder of 12seconds, basically says that the experience sucks for a number of reasons (all of which Google can fix, but will take quite a bit of work and time)...
from Seeking Alpha
from Seeking Alpha
Monday, 6 September 2010
Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs
"Fox and Disney have tossed around an old idea of Apple’s (about two years old) to lower the price of downloaded TV series to $0.99 from $1.99, and to allow them to be streamed.
But instead of launching it only with Apple, they are going to let everyone who can meet their terms join in. Potentially this could eventually include Google, though we must remember that most of the content businesses (studios) who supply the broadcast networks with content, hate Google passionately because of YouTube and its $1bn lawsuit for showing Viacom copyrighted content..."
But instead of launching it only with Apple, they are going to let everyone who can meet their terms join in. Potentially this could eventually include Google, though we must remember that most of the content businesses (studios) who supply the broadcast networks with content, hate Google passionately because of YouTube and its $1bn lawsuit for showing Viacom copyrighted content..."
from The Register
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Comment: So much content, going through so many channels... Got to be opportunities for Blinkx search functionality to help some of those companies make sense of the content and their users to search for it...
Gilder's Tenth Law (George Gilder, author of Telecosm): If you own content, you want it to flow through as many channels as possible. If you own channels, you want them to carry as much content as possible. Conflicts arrive where companies own both channels and content...
If anyone doubts the truth of that, consider the recent spat where Sky pulled Sky One from Virgin...
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