May 24, 2007
Hurdles to mobile video
Bit Player
Jon Healey writes about the love hate relationships high tech has with Hollywood.
“Despite the increased bandwidth and improved capabilities of the mobile-phone networks in the U.S., relatively few people use their cell phones to watch video — according to analyst Mark Donovan of M:Metrics, less than 2 million people watched programmed TV on their mobiles. Donovan offered that stat at the iHollywood Forum’s Mobile Entertainment Summit this morning, and several other speakers opined on what’s holding up the market. The consensus: advertiser-supported programming is the way to go, but carriers and content providers haven’t agreed yet on a way to do it.”
Daily Tech
Kristopher Kubicki blogs about Ajith Ram talks on the future of RyderMark and clears up any confusion from last year.
“Earlier this week we had the opportunity to chat with Ajith Ram, RyderMark developer. RyderMark picked up big headlines last year when reports circulated that the company had irrefutable evidence that NVIDIA and ATI were playing games with development kits and image quality.”
The Tech Chronicles
Ellen Lee muses about the online radio site that creates playlists based on a user’s musical taste, is teaming up with Sprint to offer the service on cell phones.
“Pandora has spent several years analyzing songs based on such characteristics as the vocalist’s tone and range. It then tries to predict new music choices by taking the user’s song preferences and finding matches in its database. Users can give the song a thumb’s up or down, creating a personal playlist.”
