Launched with some fanfare only 10 days ago, and with over half a million installs already, Facebook Home is the company’s attempt to enforce itself in the mobile space. We wrote about it on the launch day – clients can read more
Posted by dmacqueen @ 17/04/2013 17:22:00
Put on your Google Glass. What can you see? No advertising, at least not from anyone except Google. Probably precious few apps, either, I’d imagine, since Google has announced some “interesting” rules for develo... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 10/04/2013 12:23:00
I have had it confirmed from BSkyB's spokesman that the issue affecting the collapse of its Now TV service on Monday night was identified and “a fix has been put in place”. Sky is “now testing the service to make sure the fix ensures that we do... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 08/04/2013 20:41:00
Live televised football games don’t come much bigger than the top two teams in the English Premier League facing off at 8pm on a Monday night. Sky’s over-the-top TV service, Now TV, chose this game to offer 5000 free day passes (normal price £9.99) as a promotional tool.
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Posted by dmercer @ 22/03/2013 17:02:00
We've just completed the latest analysis of our ConsumerMetrix survey from the end of last year, focusing on multiscreen TV. The first results were published today for the US and similar studies will be released over the ... read more
Posted by dmacqueen @ 21/03/2013 10:01:00
I often think of the mobile space as being consumer led, particularly when it comes to media and services. The "next big thing" often seems to crop up out of nowhere, blindsiding the bulk of the mobile industry which often has its blinkered eyes fixed on pushing some new technology rather than li... read more
Posted by npatel @ 11/03/2013 13:38:00
With MWC now well and truly over our post mortem can begin. With so much activity going on, the Insight, called "Mobile Money, Location Based Services, & HTML5 Shine at MMW 2013<... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 05/03/2013 14:23:00
As European cable’s annual get-together, read more
Posted by jmartin @ 21/02/2013 13:44:00
Amazon launched its app store in the US amidst fanfare and hope in March 2011. The catalog quickly grew as the company expanded internationally (starting in the US in early 2011 then expanding to UK, Germany, Italy, France and Spain in mid-2012 and Japan in late 20... read more
Posted by jmartin @ 14/02/2013 17:13:00
On February 11th, Nike announced that it had ceased efforts to build an Android companion app for its FuelBand. With Google Play getting ever closer to Apple’s massive title library one company’s decision to ignore the platform sur... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 25/01/2013 10:25:00
Almost 10 years ago to the month since Cisco announced it would acquire Linksys, the company has told investors it has agreed to sell the unit to Belkin, the privately held home networking specialist based in Los Angeles, CA. Financial terms have not been disclosed. The transaction is expected to... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 24/01/2013 15:37:00
Our latest ConsumerMetrix Bulletin examines the status of cloud media and “digital locker” services in the US. These have become a popular way to enable multiscreen media access since consumers no longer have to worry about where their music, v... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 17/01/2013 11:30:00
A significant statement on the future of digital terrestrial TV came yesterday via German online publication W&V. RTL, the leading commercial broadcaster in both Germany and Europe as a whole, will begin to re... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 09/01/2013 14:13:00
As hoped for in my comments last week, television has created much of the excitement so far at CES 2013. Things started off well when the first major press conference from LG spent very little time on smartphones, instead leading with OLED and Ultra-HD, and inde... read more
Posted by dmercer @ 03/01/2013 18:38:00
Smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks will grab many of the headlines over the next few days of CES mayhem, and in some cases may even deserve their accolades. The world of consumer technology has been transformed by smart personal devices and there is plenty more innovation coming down those pipel... read more
Posted by dmacqueen @ 19/12/2012 16:14:00
Instagram (owned by Facebook) created its own little PR disaster this week. It added these words to its new terms and conditions: "You hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the content that you post o... read more
Posted by jmartin @ 14/12/2012 09:40:00
I am an iPad owner. I bought the original shortly after launch, I waited on line at Best Buy for the iPad 2, and I have been using an iPad 3 for several months. The iPad is a frequent companion at home on the couch and a best friend on flights.
When Apple released the iPa... read more
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