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According to ABI Research, the market for smartphones will grow from around 10 percent of the total handset market in 2007 to 31 percent of the market in 2013. A new study from this research firm projects this meteoric growth to be a product of a number of complex factors, including carriers’ drives to grow data revenues from advanced services and the general trend to pushing “smart” operating systems down into middle tier devices. The report finds that the iPhone effect is truly filtering through the handset market as other OEMs strive to remain competitive. Features that look set to proliferate and become central to enhancing user interface experiences include touchscreens, touchpads, and accelerometers facilitating tilt and shock sensing, as well as haptics providing tactile feedback. “Smartphone and OS Markets” provides a thorough overview of the smartphone market and concentrates on key developments in device feature set expansion and the evolving software landscape. The report covers important topics including specific features and technologies that enhance the user interface, in addition to the encroachment of open source software into the smartphone domain—London, United Kingdom
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Just debuting from NVISION is the company’s new Synapse Cortex software. This app configures, controls and monitors a network comprised of NVISION’s Synapse broadcast modules. This app is offered at no cost and includes all the functionality of three previous Synapse apps—Set Up, Back Up, and Control Panel configuration. There are new features included, as well, such as Control Monitoring and an all-new GUI for ease of use during the set up of more complex modules. A new key feature is permission access to the Synapse network. The customer can establish permissions at three levels and users can access more in-depth knowledge of a specific module, with quick access to the manual data base… all that needs to be done is to click on view, manual. Cortex also includes many familiar features to help maintain the Synapse system, including copy and paste of one module configuration to another; creating a configuration from file templates; archiving of system status; backup; restore; system inventory; and batch programming—Grass Valley, California
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One Voice Technologies develops 4thGen voice solutions for telecom and interactive multimedia markets and the firm has just released a corporate info update. Over the past several months, One Voice Tech has been finalizing their MobileVoice MID software for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). The software allows consumers to use voice control to play music, view photos, videos, launch apps, dictate messages and also engage invoice search for full Internet browsing, including Google maps, navigation, YouTube video and news—all by using a pocket MID. The firm demo’d their software recently in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress, in the Intel booth and they’ll be doing the same thing at the upcoming Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in Shanghai, China, from April 2nd through 3rd as well as CTIA Wireless 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 1st through 3rd. This month, the company will release VoiceTunes. This product voice activates iTunes and Windows Media Player. The software is available as a free trial download and more info on this product may be obtained at this website—La Jolla, California
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Tianjin TEDA Cable TV Network Company is expanding their cable TV offering into video-on-demand (VOD) and network personal video recorder (nPVR) services so they selected TANDBERG Television’s OpenStream Digital Services Platform. Tianjin TEDA Cable already provides digital cable TV services to the people of Tianjin TEDA (Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area) using a TANDBERG Television head-end and network control solution. Now the operator is rolling out a state-of-the-art VOD system, based on the OpenStream Digital Services Platform, with real-time ingest for nPVR. As part of the contract, TANDBERG Television has also provided its Xport on-demand content production software system. The deal extends TANDBERG Television’s presence in China. Tianjin TEDA Cable is a state-owned organization responsible for the planning, construction, operation, and management of the cable TV network of Tianjin TEDA. Tianjin TEDA is situated in the northeastern part of China adjacent to Beijing (120km) and the Hebei province—Beijing, PRC
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The future of TV is Internet-based and the viewers most sought after by advertisers are moving from the old fashioned TV screen to interactive TV screens on devices such as laptop PCs—this from Alex Kanakaris, the Founder and Chairman of Wi-Fi TV Inc. He spoke on a panel with other luminaries from companies such as Microsoft TV, Crackle and Move Networks. A survey of 17,000 people to assess their involvement in the last TV show they watched reveals computer watchers to be 25 percent more involved than TV set viewers. “The screen may be smaller, but the payoff for broadcasters and advertisers is bigger. People who go online to watch a TV show are more engaged with the program—and its ads—than their couch potato counterparts,” says Simmons Market Research Bureau. “People watching online,” says John Fetto, a Simmons product manager, “are going to find a specific program.” The online crowd was also 47 percent more likely to find ads “useful” than TV watchers – and more inclined to make a purchase. Web TV watchers “only click on an ad if they’re interested in it,” says Darcy Gerberg, a senior fellow at the Columbia Institute of Tele-In-Formation. “That’s more valuable to the advertiser,” Gerberg added—San Francisco, California
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