“TV Everywhere” – going Mobile
“TV Everywhere” has broad implications for the content industry.
During the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, co-moderator Rafat Ali posed the question about the prospects of “TV Everywhere.”
Bob Mason, CTO and co-founder of Brightcove and Framk Barbieri, CEO of Transpera answer the question!
The End of Single-Purpose Devices
| Jim Rapoza posted this blog in eWeek.
So what am I doing? Am I walking around with an MP3 player, an e-book reader, a digital camera and a digital camcorder? Nope, just one device, my BlackBerry smartphone, which lets me listen to music, read books, take pictures and video, and, oh, yeah, make calls, play games, manage contacts and so on. I do own a nice MP3 player, a very good digital point-and-shoot camera and a Flip camcorder, and, while I don’t own an e-book reader, I’ve had the chance to try out several. But I find that I’m leaving these devices at home more and more and just sticking with one multifunction device. All of these single-purpose devices are excellent and in pretty much every case they are superior to the functionality in my smartphone. But it’s also true that in most cases my smartphone is good enough.” Read the full article at http://etech.eweek.com/content/mobile_and_wireless/the_end_of_single_purpose_devices.html |
What Is Augmented Reality?
CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout previews what’s coming to a smartphone screen near you!
The Progress Project: Mobile Learning Institute
The Progress Project: Improving access to education Mobile Learning Institute (MLI), United States.
theprogressproject.com investigates an initiative that flies firmly in the face of traditional education. Mobile phones, banned in most schools, are here used as a key learning device in the classroom. At a summer camp kids learn to use mobile phones to make a film about the environment.
Video Producer/Director makes Top 10 Hot Jobs List
The Video Space Blog doesn’t always have to focus (pun intended) on video facts, figures or technology geekdom. But today, I tripped across a surprising assessment of the US job market – it’s in fact-n-figure form, but not what you‘d expect.
Out of 750 jobs reviewed, The Daily Beast (www.thedailybeast.com) has decided that Video Producer and Director is the #3 Top Job in America for job and wage growth! They based it on analysis of 3 years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics so it must be infallible. They’re talking PAID jobs over 45k USD, not your fav homeboy with a Flip camera, but PAID professional work. They go on to say that the demand is driven by our thirst for on-line video.
Given that tidbit, Video Value Added Services should have no problem finding good, professionally produced content to drive their apps. Hmmm, I thought outside the news and sports categories most professional online video content was repurposed broadcast material. But after some thought, there is an ton of advertisement videos made for the web. Ok, service providers, give me a ‘Cool Advert’ channel with Video Push.
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Social networking goes Mobile in Asia
Asia Report attends the social networking world forum in Singapore where Simon Kearney spoke to Mobile web optimiser Netbiscuits, social networking site Friendster and marketing firm Vöcanic.
Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband
There has been a lot of press and buzz in the industry regarding 4G deployments and the related technology choices being deployed by carriers. It is a good time to study the impacts of deployment of these technologies on the business of telecommunications providers.
Of the many articles I have read in the past few months, invariably when 4G (LTE or WiMAX) is mentioned in the same breath people start talking about more bandwidth to the cell/smart phones. While this may be true, the objective and scope for the development and deployment of 4G mobile technologies is certainly much more than that. Deployment of these technologies allows the wireless service provider to achieve the following:
- Compete for High Speed Internet business, with a much differentiated service than traditional HSI service providers by not only providing the service but also adding mobility to the plan and thus significantly differentiating their service offering.
- Provide a much richer multimedia experience on mobile phones and other devices. 4G certainly is going to emerge as a strong competitor for DSL and cable because of higher speeds and mobility. Based on current architectures it is understood that 4G could provide up to 15-30 Mbps broadband speeds to individual subscribers with about 100Mbps shared amongst various users on a particular cell cite.
- Always-on connections and seamless mobility for all wireless enabled devices.
- As technological innovation continues for these 4G technologies, there could come a time where broadcast video services are provided over the wireless infrastructure as well for certain demographic areas in the network. Voice will become ubiquitous where the phone picks the best network medium available based on the location of the subscriber
These are just some of the benefits that position 4G as the next step in mobile broadband. 4G can be used both in densely populated regions to increase capacity but also in rural areas to use spectrum that you cannot use today in existing networks.
The above points are just some of the benefits of 4G in terms of higher speeds and feeds. Another way to think about this technology is in terms of coverage for all services in areas of developing as well as developed countries which are under-served or not served in terms of telecommunications services. Even in a developed country like the United States of America there are areas of the country that are not served with broadband. As a part of the economic recovery stimulus spending the federal government has allocated $7.2 billion to serve these areas with broadband. There has been talk in certain sections of the industry that rather than spending a lot of money of adding wireline infrastructure it may be advisable to look at LTE and WiMAX as technologies that can blanket these under served areas across the country. This way the entire population can have access to not only broadband capabilities but also mobility for any type of service.
This model can also be replicated in countries where lots of greenfield infrastructure is being added to provide basic telephony as well as other advanced services.
According to a World Wireless Research Forum report, it is expected that by 2017 there will be 17 trillion wireless serving the world population and a wireless broadband network based on technologies like 4G and beyond could provide the seamless connectivity to anything from anywhere.