Posts Categorized: telecomunications

Mobile Contacts Are Now The Real Social Network

Posted by & filed under app, FaceBook, smartphones, Social Media, System development, telecomunications, user habits, wireless networks.

Description: As Facebook acquires Whatsapp, it’s a clear sign that mobile messaging apps are the real form of communication between friends who regularly chat, and that’s where the money is…for now. Source: TechCrunch Date: February 21, 2014  Facebook’s surprising acquisition of WhatsApp signals that it has realized that users’ true social network is the contact list on their smartphones…. Read more »

Rogers to Take on Netflix and Hulu with Launch of Video-streaming Service

Posted by & filed under industry analysis, Netflix, social tv, streaming video, telecomunications, television, video.

Description: Rogers is attempting to compete in the video-streaming industry with an on-demand type option of network shows available the day after they are aired. Source: TechVibes Date: January 14, 2014 Rogers is reportedly looking at taking a slice of the streaming media pie. In aCartt.ca online trade magazine report, editor-in-chief Greg O’Brien says, “Rogers has spent more… Read more »

Pet-Friendly Tech Start-up Explodes On Kickstarter

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, market intelligence, national culture, streaming video, telecomunications, WI-Fi.

Description: Your days of wondering what your pets are up to while your not there are over. Introducing Petcube – a small aluminum and glass cube that is equipped with a camera, a speaker, wi-fi capability and a laser pointer that can be controlled remotely through the use of a smartphone. Source: Forbes Date: October 24, 2013… Read more »

China Will Soon Become Apple’s Most Important Market

Posted by & filed under Apple, China, Hardware, iphone, smart phones, technology, telecomunications, Tim Cook.

Description: Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting China to strengthen relations with the country’s mobile players. The visit comes after a nearly 3 month delay to roll out iPhone 5 to the worlds largest mobile market. Source: TechCrunch Date: January 10th, 2013 Tim Cook would like to get Apple on a faster boat to… Read more »

TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants

Posted by & filed under Apple, branding, business models, streaming video, telecomunications.

Description: The rise of Apple and Google in the smartphone market has pushed Nokia and Research In Motion to the brink of irrelevance. Now, television makers are scrambling to make sure the same does not happen to them. Source: www.nytimes.com Date: Sept 5, 2012 TV makers are wagering that mobile phone users hooked on consuming… Read more »

Is texting making us more creative? Canadian researchers think so

Posted by & filed under telecomunications, texting, Twitter.

Description: Some call it a universal form of English. Others argue it’s most definitely ruining the language and producing a generation of illiterates. Source: GlobeandMail.com Date: April 9, 2012 But researchers at three Canadian universities studying text messaging think we may have become more creative because of this new form of communication. The academics from… Read more »

Comics Are Now Selling Laughs by the Download

Posted by & filed under disintermediation, Ecommerce, industry analysis, marketing, revenue model, streaming video, telecomunications.

Description: Stand-up comedians of a certain era knew they had arrived when Johnny Carson invited them to a desk-side seat on “The Tonight Show.” A generation later, the gold standard was getting a solo comedy special on HBO. But in the Internet era, the yardstick for success has been redefined. Source: NYTimes .com Date: March… Read more »

iPhone 4S devours data twice as fast as previous model

Posted by & filed under Digital Policy, Hardware, iPad, iphone, ISPs, revenue model, telecomunications, wireless networks.

Description: Apple’s new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed. Source: theglobeandmail.com Date: Jan 6, 2012 When Apple rolled out the iPhone 4S in October,… Read more »