A company called GooMe Interactive, which has been profitably designing applications and services for TV distributors like Vodafone, Orange and Tata Sky for the last eight years, has dropped its customers and branched out on its own. GooMe (which sounds like the Hebrew word for… Read More »
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The concept of attention is fascinating, Bernardo Huberman, senior HP fellow and director of HP Labs’ Social Computing Laboratory, said at Mobilize 09 today. To that effect, Huberman mentioned a couple of Labs products that he’s been working on that came out of research on… Read More »
When asked for takeaways about mobile design, five user experience experts had this to say on a panel at Mobilize 09: Prashant Agarwal, Managing Director, Fjord New York, Fjord: While understanding of mobile interaction has improved dramatically, display sizes are not keeping up. The big visual design… Read More »
Following Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha’s presentation at Mobilize of the new Moto phone Cliq and Android-powered OS MotoBlur, Jha paused amidst a papparazzi-like onslaught of attention for his new phone for a lively on-stage discussion about the big picture with Google VP Engineering Andy Rubin… Read More »
There are roughly 4,000 total mobile applications that make use of location context today, according to Ted Morgan, founder and CEO of Skyhook Wireless. That’s up from “a year and a half ago, probably only five in the world.” Skyhook, which delivers location information for Apple’s… Read More »
“It’s not about the mobile web, it’s about this PC Internet going mobile,” was Intel’s pitch to open up our Mobilize 09 conference in San Francisco this morning. The Internet is becoming more personal, social, rich, real time, intelligent, location-aware, contextual, dynamic and interactive, said Pankaj… Read More »
As TV gets back into gear for the fall season, there’s a fresh opportunity for digital initiatives. We’ve been chatting with our network and video platform contacts about what’s in store for viewers. Today, we’ll highlight CBS’ plans. The big difference for this fall season… Read More »
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Investment bank Credit Suisse, which had garnered major attention for claiming YouTube would lose $470 million this year, and then sustained criticism from infrastructure experts who said it greatly overestimated YouTube’s costs, has revised its estimates. A little bit. Now Credit Suisse analysts Spencer… Read More »
Lindsay Campbell, one of the early faces of web video as the host of Wallstrip, which was bought by CBS in 2007 for $4 million, is back on the PC screen today with a new show, Small Business Rules for Next New Networks.
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses America’s schoolchildren today at 12 p.m. ET. He’ll welcome kids back for the school year and encourage them to take personal responsibility for their education. The speech will be primarily distributed online: streamed live on whitehouse.gov and also on
Premium prices for three-dimensional movies were responsible for helping movie theaters avoid a slump this summer, according to newly tabulated box-office stats. U.S. box-office revenues were up 4 percent this summer, to $4.3 billion from $4.13 billion in 2008. That was spread across a decreased number… Read More »
After hearing all the buzz about this new Glee series, I tuned into Hulu last night to check it out. While enjoying a preview of the show’s fine singing and terrible acting, I noticed that Hulu offered me a link to “Buy this season today”… Read More »
The big news in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend is the closure of the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland for five days for a key graft in its multi-year seismic retrofit. At a height of 150 feet over Yerba Buena Island, where… Read More »
Streamy and Webby award-winning Epic Fu, which built up a passionate community around its fast-paced geek culture show, has been off the air since May, and its fans haven’t known what to think. “I didnt want to admit it, but ive given up… Read More »
Ashton Kutcher’s behind-the-scenes reality show KatalystHQ returned to the web for a second season this week. Season two will still have that Flipcam aesthetic, star employees of Kutcher’s production company Katalyst Media, feature celebrity cameos from his buddies like Gary Busey, and be primarily distributed… Read More »
The NewTeeVee team is thrilled to formally announce our 2009 conference. The third-annual NewTeeVee Live will be held on November 12 in San Francisco. We are finalizing many speakers at this very moment, but can confirm the line-up will include: Marc Whitten General Manager… Read More »
Every American television operator is said to be working on some sort of online distribution service for fall release. The category has assumed the generic (and also Time Warner-specific) name “TV Everywhere.” A reader points us to what looks to be AT&T’s yet-to-debut, but… Read More »
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