There will be an installed base of 140 million Android portable devices, including smartphones and tablets, by the end of 2011, according to IMS Research forecasts. The market intelligence firm says the recent unveiling of Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system for tablets, along with enhancements to the Android Market website, will do much to […]

In 2010, there was a rapid shift toward consumer electronics (CE) devices with networking and web content capabilities. Connected devices are expected to grow exponentially over the next five years.  By 2015, In-Stat predicts there will be 1 billion web-enabled, stationary CE devices in operation worldwide. “Smart TVs and Blu-ray players (that support online apps) […]

Google has unveiled Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers – and other content owners – set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give access to digital content across websites and mobile apps. Users who purchase from a […]

eMarketer estimates that in 2011, 68.2 per cent of US Internet users, or 158.1 million people, will be watching video content online each month. By 2015, that figure will increase to 76 per cent of Internet users, or 195.5 million people. In the same period, online video advertising spending will surge from $1.97 billion to […]

Apple has confirmed a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service that Apple recently launched with News Corp’s ‘The Daily’ app. Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the […]

SPB Software used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to unveil its latest iPhone and Blackberry applications, its SPB TV 3.0 software, which Vassily Philippov, SPB’s COO, says has already enjoyed 4m downloads to its TV streaming and VOD versions. SPB’s existing product has found firm demand in Germany, Russia, China, India, Turkey and the […]

Digital video media technologist DivX has expanded its collaboration with embedded processing solutions specialist Freescale Semiconductor to adopt DivX HD technology across multiple platforms and support DivX TV on its chipsets. Matt Milne, Executive Vice President and General Manager, DivX, said the alliance with Freescale would enable its OEM customers to release more quickly DivX […]

Over 162 million requests were made for iPlayer programmes last month, a 12 per cent increase on December and a 35 per cent jump on January 2010. Just over 100 million of these requests were made online – but for Daniel Danker, head of on-demand, the future is mobile. “The ratio of growth we’re seeing […]

Mobile phone operators are stepping up their campaign to charge Internet content providers for data traffic on their networks. Franco Bernabè, chairman of the GSMA, the mobile operators’ representative body, told FT that there could be “no free lunch” for the content providers. Network operators are hoping a mobile summit at the European Commission next […]

The HQME Steering Committee, a newly-formed group of mobile and content industry leaders that includes SanDisk Corporation, SoftBank Mobile, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Orange, has announced a proposed industry standard aimed at addressing the current and growing challenges of efficiently managing and delivering data from mobile networks to mobile devices. HQME (High Quality Mobile Experience) […]