It seems likely that any Canvas set-top box will involve Freeview – and possibly Freeview HD – channels alongside a mix of free and pay-for VoD content that will either stream (SD) or download (HD) to the set-top box.
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Unity Technologies raises $5.5M from Sequoia Capital for 3-D Browser-based game « Playbbg.com - Browser MMORPG, Browser PRG, Top Browser Games, Free Online Browser Game - http://www.playbbg.com/news...
"You can still get better 3-D graphics from disk-based games or those that come with huge file downloads. But in the U.S. in particular, where broadband speeds are particularly low, many users give up on downloads before they finish. That explains why a lot of game makers, from Nickelodeon to Electronic Arts, have turned to Unity."
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"Brightcove 4 now supports a native video player on the iPhone, in Facebook, and live video streaming on the Web. It’s got Twitter integration for sharing videos, faster-loading video players, the ability to switch between Flash streaming and HTTP, adaptive streaming based on a user’s device and bandwidth, behind-the-firewall video delivery, support for most major ad servers, better analytics, and a new, cheaper, entry-level subscription service called Brightcove Express."
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Brightcove 4 now supports a native video player on the iPhone, in Facebook, and live video streaming on the Web. It’s got Twitter integration for sharing videos, faster-loading video players, the ability to switch between Flash streaming and HTTP, adaptive streaming based on a user’s device and bandwidth, behind-the-firewall video delivery, support for most major ad servers, better analytics, and a new, cheaper, entry-level subscription service called Brightcove Express.
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"As for Apple’s overall phone profits being higher than Nokia’s, don’t believe it. Just because dozens of Websites report something as true doesn’t make it so. Because of the extent of misreporting, I can’t say where the fault lies. The Strategic [sic] Analytics report, which again I haven’t seen, might have gone no further than present numbers showing that Apple makes more profit per phone than Nokia. That absolutely makes sense. But to assert that iPhone generated $1.6 billion profit during a quarter when all Apple products generated $1.67 billion is simple stupidity."
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Interesting comparison of the iphone single-task paradigm with the multitask capable Nokia N900. Conclusion is that single task paradigm is very important for the user experience on the Iphone. I really learned something from this article. Go read it if you're interesting in usability.
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a very cut-down version of a conference speech James Cridland made at the recent WorldDMB General Assembly in Paris.
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"But as my colleagues Mark Johnson and Josh Suskewicz have shown, the true path to transformation almost always comes from developing a distinct business model." so true
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Belgian public broadcaster offers a free app for Blackberry and Iphone to access it Teletext content. The application was made by e-office who made it's first version for the dutch public broadcaster NOS.
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1. Shared media: Not yours but our media 2. Power of the crowd: People pick the news 3. Multiple streams: No one kind of content rules 4. Personal: Connections to people, not just content 5. Interactive: Responding, Not Just Consuming
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"As long as people are running around with tape, our digitalisation is not finished", with this kind of things it will take longer than we think ;-)
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Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...