When companies like the mobile advertising pioneer Smaato showed off their product at long-forgotten Symbian Smartphone Shows, the average pundit did not expect ads to become a significant part of the financing of mobile applications.
However, the situation has changed and the voice of the market has spoken. Thus, it should not come as a surprise that the long-running “Cannes lion” advertising festival now has a category of its own for all things related to mobile:
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We at the Tamoggemon Team wish our readers a Very Happy New Year 2012.
We would like to thank all our readers who visited our website and participated in the discussions. Without you, we would have been nothing
You Rock People…!!!! Happy New Year 2012.
Looks like the times of CarrierIQ winning awards from agencies like FierceWireless will soon be over – now, the image of the Android OS itself is at stake.
The image below came from the main news broadcast of Austrias governmental TV Station ORF, and was followed up with a tirade stating that “mainly Android handsets are affected”:
Even though the ranting of a governmental TV station can be ignored, the situation is now getting hot: as the US government investigates and RIM distances itself from the product, it most probably is but a question of time until we will see a situation similar to the Etisalat removal patch offered by RIM some time ago.
By the way: the software is not at all limited to Android. It also lives on Symbian, iOS and webOS, with Windows Mobile classic deployments rumored.
When Google first launched its TV service, LogiTech introduced the first-ever set-top-box for the platform named the Revue. Logically, everyone who was interested in Apps on TV jumped on it – sadly, the press didn’t like it too much.
Some three weeks ago, BroadbandTV reported the following:
Logitech’s Revue set-top box for Google TV was a ‘big mistake’, according to Guerrino De Luca, chairman and acting chief executive of Logitech
Fortunately, it now looks as we will get two new, far larger hardware vendors on board:
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are expected to launch Google TV next year. But only LG will show its models at the 2012 CES in Las Vegas.
Yoon Boo-keun, chief of Samsung’s TV division, said on Tuesday to the Korean press that the company is in final talks with Google about when to release the hot new gadget. “We will announce the launch date at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.”
Samsung already showed a prototype of Google TV at last year’s CES, but did not bring any sets to the market. …
With Microsoft increasing the ad pressure for its XBox all over Europe, we could be in for an interesting fight. What do you think?
Christmas always involved sending out season’s greetings. Microsoft Austria has now performed a research checking how European citizens send and receive greetings.
When it comes to receiving greetings, users responded as following:
| Venue | Percentage |
|---|---|
| SMS | 50% |
| Voice Call | 48% |
| Post card | 45% |
| 23% | |
| Social Networks | 19% |
| Video chat | 5% |
For sending, data looked slightly different:
| Venue | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Post card | 61% |
| Voice Call | 52% |
| SMS | 44% |
| 26% | |
| Social Networks | 16% |
| Video chat | 7% |
How do you send your season’s greetings?
When the XBox 360 as released long time ago, it was just another console. It was marred by the popularity and prowess of the PS3 and the ingenuity of the Wii.
Wii was the console that popularized the concept of motion gaming going extreme. Soon Sony jumped in by introducing the PlayStation Move, which mimicked the Wii on a superior and proven console.
What Microsoft did was to introduce the Kinect, the controller without boundaries.
Almost immediately following the launch of Kinect, hobbyists and academics from around the world embraced Kinect possibilities in ways that surprised and delighted. And with the launch of a non-commercial software development kit, we saw even more exciting and creative applications in the areas of healthcare, rehab, education and so much more. As we watched these stories unfold, the term “The Kinect Effect” emerged in hallway conversations at Microsoft as a way to describe the amazing and creative ways Kinect was being used.
What began as pure entertainment had taken a new form altogether. See for yourself
Frank X Shaw over at the Technet blog quotes
Bill Gates once said, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years, and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10." Last year was an incredible year for the Kinect Effect, and with so many fantastic ideas made real in just the one year, I can’t wait to look back in nine!
Being an avid gamer and having owned a lot of consoles myself, I can vouch that no console is inferior when it comes to gaming and enjoyment, but I must really commend Microsoft and the guys who got this idea to transform the Kinect into something unexpected.
We all have indulged in piracy of some kind or the other at some point in our lives. And to tell that we haven’t is to make a fool of ourselves.
A nice piece of read regarding this is at http://www.abc.net.au, where the author questions the direction copyright has traversed since inception.
Nowadays, copyright barely resembles what it was originally designed for i.e. to protect both parties: inventors and content creators on the one side and the public on the other. Corporate America and government compliance have written out public interests in many instances.
and
One of the main reasons we all have anti-piracy slogans embedded in our brains is because the music industry chose to try and protect its existing market and revenue streams at all costs and marginalise and vilify those who didn’t want to conform to the harsh new rules being set.
The article can be read here
Google is extremely fast at launching services – unfortunately, some less successful ones get to bite the bullet from time to time. It now is time for another few services to see the white light.
In particular, the following services will soon be gone:
Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won’t be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.
Jaiku, a product we acquired in 2007 that let users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012. We’ll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku.
Several years ago, we gave people the ability to interact socially on iGoogle. With our new focus on Google+, we will remove iGoogle’s social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to our search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will close on January 15, 2012.
Should anyone of you be using one of these services, it is now time to look for an alternative…
Carriers change their policies all the time. But when the largest US carrier changes its policy, it IMHO is worthy of a PSA here.
In particular, the boys in red want to be able to share your personal data with advertisers in an anonymized form. The Boy Genius was given the following statement:
Protecting data and safeguarding privacy are high priorities at Verizon. Verizon Wireless recently introduced a new program that involves the creation of new types of aggregate business and marketing reports. For the business and marketing reports offered by Verizon Wireless, records about websites visited, cell phone locations and other consumer data will be combined (or aggregated) to compile reports that provide businesses with insights about their customers. In addition, Verizon Wireless and Verizon Telecom also introduced new ways to advertise to mobile users and wireline broadband customers.
For example, these insights may include the demographics (age ranges, gender, etc.) and interests (such as “pet lovers” or “tennis enthusiasts”) of visitors to a Web site, or commuters who might pass an outdoor billboard. These aggregate reports could be used by web publishers to help provide content that is more appealing to users, or to help advertisers better select the ads they will display on outdoor billboards or at other venues.
Use the URL below to prohibit the sharing – after all, the carrier doesn’t want to give its customers the right to “special termination”:
http://www.vzw.com/myprivacy
The Good folks over at Beta Labs once again present to us an updated version of a great app. This time, Soundtracker for S60 5th Edition and Symbian devices has been updated to version 1.6.
According to Beta Labs,
We are happy to share release 1.6 of Soundtracker Radio for S60 5th edition and Symbian devices. In addition to further improving the musical experience and fixing a number of issues signaled to us but the Nokia Beta Labs community it also brings the Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle devices to the list of compatible devices.
We recommend to install Java Runtime 2.1 beta for S60 5th edition devices before installing Soundtracker. We also recommend to remove any previous build of Soundtracker and install this new build.
There is no changelog at the moment. The app can be downloaded at http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/soundtracker.
Do let us know what you feel about the app…!!
There were rumors and reports about a behemoth of memory card in the making. But we never knew who was going to release it. The massive SanDisk 64GB microSDXC memory card. The memory card can hold approximately 30,000 digital photos, more than 2,000 music albums and over 24 hours of 720p HD video footage – so there’s more than enough room!
Interestingly, you can drop the memory card from ten foot high and it would still work and it has a 5 year guarantee, so you know you’ve got a quality and durable product.
The card will be available with Mobillefun UK who would be selling it form the 3rd October for £139.95. Though the card is a bit pricey but the amount of room you will get for your money is unbelievable.
Also, very few phones at present support external memory beyond 32 GB. Nothing much to add here.
Well guess what? MSFT has blown the trumpet. It is now openly inviting webOS devs to develop for Windows Phone 7.
According to a tweet by Brandon Watson – senior director of Windows Phone 7 development at Microsoft.
Watson is the same man who had recently bet $1,000 on Windows Phone 7 with the author of popular comic strip Dilbert.
With webOS devs hitting the panic button, MSFT will surely be luring a lot of devs to develop on the Windows Phone 7 platform.
For Watson it’s a simple approach. “Someone asked me why,” he said over Twitter. “Because every developer matters, that’s why.”
Stay tuned for more…!!!!
Nokia’s death would open up a lot of place all over the phone market – some manufacturers (e.g. Samsung) have even deployed their own platforms as Nokia “killers”. After the cooperation with Microsoft, many have considered Nokia dead – but is this really so?
The folks from InnerActive have now sent us the chart below, which shows a clear growth trend for Nokia’s platforms (dumbphone and smartphone combined):
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IDC has made it official. Samsung has knocked Nokia off from it’s home turf (read as Europe) to become the biggest handset vendor in the Western European market.
Francisco Jeronimo, European mobile devices research manager at IDC, stated that:
“Nokia is one of the most recognised and appreciated brands in Europe, but Samsung was the one understanding the trends first and moving faster. Samsung understood early the trend on touchscreen devices and became the market leader on feature-phones by providing a full range of devices at very competitive prices.”
| 1Q11 | Shipments | Share | Shipment Growth |
| Samsung | 13.2 | 29.3% | 5% |
| Nokia | 12.6 | 27.9% | -10% |
| Apple | 4.4 | 9.8% | 49% |
| RIM | 3.5 | 7.8% | 48% |
| HTC | 3.5 | 7.8% | 271% |
| Others | 7.8 | 17.4% | -22% |
| Total | 45.0 | 100% | 5% |
Top Western European Mobile Phone Vendors, Total Shipments and Market Share, 1Q11 (Source: IDC)
What is clearly visible from the data above is that Nokia is the only vendor among the top-five to see its volumes decreasing, in a market that is increasing in size overall. HTC has suprised us by registering a 271 % year on year increase in shipments taking it to fifth place.
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