"apps" articles
Verizon will soon start selling a Home Monitoring Control service, and Bright House will soon start selling a more premium home-monitoring and security service, staffed and connected to police and fire departments. "The more services they can get someone to sign up for, the stickier that customer is to them," said Bill Ablondi , director of home systems research for the Parks Associates market research firm. Having a phone company take over home automation makes some sense,...
Thanks to TVersity and PacketVideo for their sponsorship of CONNECTIONS™, and for having folks on hand to demonstrate their media aggregation software solutions. The basic premise is that all content, no matter where it's hosted, can be accessed when the companies' client software is installed on your different media servers. Although that is a fancy term, it's basically any computer that stores your personal or professional content. In addition to providing for a...
Viodi View has a really good interview with David Foote, the CTO of Hitachi Communications Technologies America. We appreciate them being there, and the interview struck me as one key component in the "smart TV" space that doesn't get talked about enough. Operators will want to have a very flexible platform to which applications developers can create features and easily port them onto existing CPE and other consumer electronics in the home is essential,...
Smartphones represent a new lifestyle. Consumer desire for that lifestyle has accelerated the traditional mobile phone replacement cycle and will drive near-term hypergrowth of the smartphone market. Parks Associates forecasts over 2 billion people worldwide will own at least one smartphone in 2015, with unit sales growing over 175% from 2010.
Hardware and software innovations, such as dual-facing camera-supported video chat and app-enabled content consumption, will continue...
Parks Associates' Mobile Health: Uptake by Consumers and Care Providers is a primary consumer survey that examines use of mobile technologies by both consumers and care workers in health applications.
Consumer Topics include:
-- Use of mobile to access health and wellness information, track personal health conditions, and interact with care organizations
-- Use of mobile apps, widgets, Web 2.0 tools, games, and mobile social networking solutions for...
Android Market is expected to offer more applications for download and/or purchase than Apple’s App Store. The Android application store’s growth rate has been accelerating recently. According to a report, Android Market added 28,000 new apps in April 2011, whereas Apple lagged behind with only 11,000 new apps.
Reports say Android Market’s high growth rate does not necessarily mean that the average mobile app developer will have a better shot at generating revenues from...
Warner Bros. home entertainment announced that it has agreed to buy Flixster . Warner Bros. is hoping this acquisition will help consumers organize and discover their favorite movies with the applications on their computers, phones and other devices. The acquisition also includes Rotten Tomatoes, a popular movie review and news site.
Warner Bros. is seeing DVD sales shrink annually as movie fans start to seek out their favorite movies on digital services. To help stop the...
Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world’s largest bookseller, announced that it added significant new features and content to the NOOK Color Reader’s Tablet, making what has already been acclaimed as the best reading device on the market, the best tablet value on the market at just $249. With a major update to its bestselling device, Barnes & Noble is delivering more of what NOOK Color customers want: shopping a broad collection of popular apps, staying connected with...
