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Web2.0 vs. Consumer Electronics and New Media

A recent article was about open mobile device platforms such as Android, but you see similar trends in the fixed world: eHomeUpgrade has a nice series of reports on Online Home Video Delivery that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Netflix.

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- Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 Time: 8:17 am Discussion: Comments Category: IPTV, Product & Service Innovation, Telco2.0 Tags: Android, entertainment, ipod, Media, video

In a recent entry about Google Android and New Media I explained how hardware vendors could lead a profitable video distribution service for mobile devices, and not Web2.0 mashups. Just for completion: The article was about open mobile device platforms such as Android, but you see similar trends in the fixed world: eHomeUpgrade has a nice series of reports on Online Home Video Delivery that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Netflix. Just as a reminder: In early January Netflix announced a partnership with LG, followed by a plugin for the Vista Media Center and SageTV in early February, and Seanbajuice shares his surey from Netflix what he would think about Netflix on PS3 / XBOX360 (Funny enough, Reuters took another six weeks to catch on to it.)

New Media and Google Android - You Don’t See That?!

Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.

March 22, 2008 | (2)

Silicon Valley Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab Opens Doors

Deutsche Telekom R&D will officially open the doors of its highly anticipated T-Laboratories in the Silicon Valley in January 2009. The lab will start out with a focus on Clean Slate Internet Design, Services and Mobile Platforms, and New Media.

October 28, 2008 | (0)