Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
Posted in IT, Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | No Comments »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
An interesting analysis from Telco 2.0 compares the business of YouTube versus Hulu in 2008. The table summarizes the key data used in the analysis:
YouTube
Hulu
No of videos/day
1000+ million
3-4 million
Average duration
2.75 min
27.5 min
% clips with ads
3-4%
80%
Average CPM
$10
$15-20
2008 Revenues
$118 m
$52 m
2008 Loss
$91 m
$9 m
According to Telco 2.0, YouTube ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
The essence of Net Neutrality is "All Packets are created Equal". No ISP should block or prioritize any traffic based on what the IP Packet carries. That is, no VoIP/Skype, YouTube video, music download or Bittorrent traffic should be processed differently based on its nature. All packets will be equally treated ...
Posted in Internet | No Comments »
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Some facts about Online video:
Online TV is growing. The number of people watching online video will grow from 563 million in 2007 to 941 million in 2013 according to ABI research, echoed by NewTeeVee.
People watch far more hours of TV from the couch than on the PC. According to Nielsen ...
Posted in Digital Home, Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
As usual in bad times, the debate on whether progress creates or destroys value comes back, as questioned in Martin Varsavsky blog, this time referring to how RSS destroys affects to blogs reducing the amount of displayed advertisement.
As Martin writes:
"I once debated Michael Porter at Davos on the overall ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
These are the top hottest five topics that we have covered over the past twelve months with the biggest potential for a disruption in both the Communications Industry and in our habits.
1) Mobile Internet, the Internet way.
The iPhone and Google's Android have revolutionized Mobile Internet in the handset, making web ...
Posted in IT, Internet, Telecom | No Comments »
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Speech Recognition technology is available for many years, still its impact has been quite low so far. Windows has speech recognition features that nobody use, speech-to-dial is available in mobile phones since years. Few people configure it, and less of them ever use it. Only Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems ...
Posted in Internet | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Yesterday Google put an end to the advertisement agreement with Yahoo! that both companies announced in April. Google blamed the government regulators and some advertisers who had concerns on the deal. And who wouldn't? The two major players in online advertisement were reaching an agreement to cooperate on search advertisement. ...
Posted in Internet | No Comments »
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Found via TechCrunch, Google keeps producing great stuff, and "organizing World's information" for us. Google Earth for iPhone (and iPod Touch) puts literally the entire blue planet on your handset. Enriched by links to Panoramio and Wikipedia, and fully using the iPhone user experience, these apps will soon make GPS ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Internet | No Comments »
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Internet TV has definitively arrived and it is here to stay. YouTube crossed the chasm for video on the Internet, and Internet TV is now steadily going mainstream. Here is some piece of evidence:
Lean-forward TV gets traction. Mainstream users now feel comfortable watching videos on the PC. First it was ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 4 Comments »
