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Nov 11th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Apple iPad, iPods & Portable Media Players
It looks like the Apple iPad has claimed its first victim – the Fusion Garage + TechCrunch JooJoo tablet. e27 reports that the JooJoo is at its “end of life” – aka dead: “With the new platform, the current Joojoo will be at its end of life,” says Fusion Garage founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan. Chandra says […]
Tags: Apple iPad, Fusion Garage, new media trends, TechCrunch
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Nov 4th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Apple iPad, Featured Story, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players
Apple’s latest Macs are shipping Flash-free, and it’s highlighting the “Flash tax” – the hit Flash puts on your computer’s performance, browser stability and battery life.
New battery-life tests show that Flash can cut your battery life by a third, just to display banner ads.
Tags: Adobe Flash, flash, Flash Is Dead, new media trends
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Oct 26th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV
Mark Cuban shares some interesting thoughts at his blog on why the Internet is not disrupting TV: If my memory serves me right, the common thread among industries (disrupted by the Internet) is that they all sold their products ala carte. Music – By the CD Newspapers – Single Newspaper (Dallas Morning News) sold by […]
Tags: Apple TV, Google TV, Internet television, Internet TV, Netflix, new media trends, Spotify, the future of television
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Oct 19th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Media Research firm Say Media reports that one out of three people in the US has given up watching live TV for Internet TV and time-shifted video. Consumers are spending less time with live television and more time with online content as well as time-and-device-shifted premium video content. This group is young, educated and affluent […]
Tags: new media trends, research, the future of television
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Oct 9th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Podcasting Research
It looks like the other shoe has dropped for old media. New research shows that people are abandoning old media by the millions for Internet media. And if they aren’t abandoning it, they are cutting way back on the time the spend with it.
Tags: new media trends, the future of media, the future of radio, the future of television
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Oct 4th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, iPods & Portable Media Players
Google today offered an update on Google TV – its new Internet television platform. And while Apple has been content to keep Apple TV as a “hobby”, Google is intent on making its Internet TV receiver a business. Today they announced multiple content partners for Google TV: Turner Broadcasting has been optimizing some of their […]
Tags: Apple TV, Google TV, Internet television, Internet TV, new media trends, the future of television
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Sep 20th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Apple iPad, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players
Earlier in the year, we suggested that, with the iPad and other iOS devices, Apple is forking the Web: The iPad isn’t about Web-applications – it’s about Internet-enabled applications. Instead of the one-size-fits-all approach of the computer Web browser, Apple is creating a platform of dedicated apps that do one thing really well. In other […]
Tags: Apple, forking the Web, iOS, iPad, iPhone, new media trends
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Aug 17th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Apple iPad, Podcasting Statistics
Wired today declared that the Web is dead, backing it up with this chart that shows the history of the proportion of total Internet bandwidth taken up by various types of traffic. According to Wired’s Chris Anderson – the proportion of Internet traffic taken up by Web requests is getting smaller – so “the Web […]
Tags: new media trends
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Aug 5th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Nielsen has released a new report on video and the Internet, based on input from people in 55 countries, and has found that most people, around the world, are now watching online video. Furthermore, interest in Internet-ready TVs is now at 20%. “The research reveals how connected consumers all over the world are expanding their […]
Tags: Internet television, new media, new media trends, the future of television
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Jun 15th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Vlogs
Google today published this YouTube video that explains “What is Google TV?” It doesn’t offer new info, but the video does help position the Google TV solution. With Google TV, it looks like Google is trying to fork the Web, like the Apple iPad forks the Web – creating a new platform for Interacting with […]
Tags: Google TV, iJustine, Internet television, Internet TV, new media trends, the future of television, vlogging, Vlogs
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