It's an irrefutable fact that there's nothing more crowd-pleasing on the internet than mashing up otherwise mundane numbers into swanky visualisations. Be it infographics, flowcharts, or, in this case, videos, you're bound to attract eyeballs if you can turn boring data into pretty visuals.
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Things tend to be big at the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual gadget-fest held this...
YouTube has announced it is teaming up with music video website VEVO to bring thousands of official clips from the likes of Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Kanye West and U2 onto the YouTube 2.0 app for Android, available around the world.
A handful of open Internet access proponents sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski expressing concern over MetroPCS Communications Inc.'s (PCS) recent rate plan changes that they contend curtails access to the Internet from mobile devices and goes against the commission's...
LAS VEGAS – Kicking off the International Consumer Electronics Show in style on Tuesday, Asian tiger AsusTek Computer Inc. unveiled a host of tablets and slates under its now famous Eee brand.Asus Chairman Jonney Shih showed his firm's tablet offerings, seen recently in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The “twenty-teens” will begin my third decade in the telecom industry. In the past 17 years, there...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
comScore Press Release:
YouTube.com Makes Google Sites the Top Ranking Video Property across Latin America and Spain
Santiago, Chile, November 30, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore Video Metrix in Brazil, Mexico, Chile,...
Lars Rasmussen, the engineer behind Google Maps and later Google Wave, has left Google for pastures new. Like a great number of ex-Googlers these days, those new pastures are Facebook.
CHICAGO—Video optimization techniques are getting more attention as wireless operators try to manage consumers' increased appetite for YouTube and other videos on their networks.Openwave Systems Inc. introduced a new version of its Media Optimizer, allowing operators to analyze and implement network optimization based on...
Editor's Note: KDDI's Dr. Hideo Okinaka, VP and general manager of Japanese operator KDDI Corp., spoke about the operator's perspective on deploying various technologies across its networks, during a keynote address at 4G World in Chicago, and during a worldwide webcast presented by the...
Whether or not carriers will admit it, one thing's for sure in the overall scheme of things: mobile data is being used at a faster clip than they can increase capacity.Take Allot Communications Ltd.'s latest report, wherein it calculated mobile data bandwidth usage increased...
If we turn the clock back a few years, entrepreneurs like myself and other industry pundits were predicting the rise of mobile data, but those lofty predictions were being met with a healthy degree of skepticism and also pushback that reached the level of...
FRISCO, Texas – Wireless operators are going to have to partner with over-the-top content providers in order to stay relevant to end users, Genband CTO Fred Kemmerer said at this morning's Genband Perspective 2010 conference for financial analysts, trade press and technology analysts.Social networks...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.We have yet to learn of the bottom-line successes of the iPhone 4 or Droid X launch...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The days of “content” as simply a photograph or a ringtone download are long gone. The...
Big shows are all about emerging industry trends and CommunicAsia in Singapore this week is no exception, with a number of mobile and wireless fads and fashions on the horizon. Of all the hype, however, no trend is so great or prevalent as the mobile video phenomenon, taking Asia and the world by storm.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' March Special Edition, "The Perfect Storm – A Focus on Mobile Messaging, Marketing, Content and Apps." The 80-page special edition is available here.While most ecosystems represent a cohesive unit, the mobile marketing and...
Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, is a man who likes to share his thoughts, and the outspoken chief's latest rant on the company blog is no exception; taking aim at Adobe and its Flash offering in a move to silence critics.The Flash wars have been...
Despite all the hype about televisions' being turned off in droves in favor of Hulu and YouTube, live TV remains easily the most popular entertainment me
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With the Mobile World Congress behind us, it’s time to start re-frame the new-new broadband debate. We...
