Monthly Archives May 2012
BYOD Drives Communism Out of IT
Are we harboring the last vestiges of Soviet-style communism at the heart of the enterprise? And is consumerization of IT the new Glasnost? Continue Reading »
Media Insights Q&A With Ooyala’s Sean Knapp
Sean Knapp, Founder and CTO of Ooyala, started his career at Google as one of the original engineers. His experience at Google provided a strong foundation for the creation of Ooyala. Ooyala provides underlying technology and services for distribution and monetization of online video content. In my interview with him, Sean talks about his work at Google, the launching of Ooyala, some of the metrics he has developed, data fusion and his perspective on the future of television. Continue Reading »
Rise In TV Shows Viewed Online, On Mobile
Longer Internet video viewing — particularly that of full-length TV shows — continues to climb at the expense of short-form video content. Continue Reading »
REPEAT/Ooyala Wins 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award, Named One of North America’s Most Promising Companies
Ooyala, the fastest growing company in online video, is a winner of the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award, a prestigious honor for the most promising private technology companies from the North American business region. Ooyala was selected by Red Herring’s editorial staff based on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy and market penetration. Continue Reading »
InvenSense Opens Proprietary Nasiri Fabrication Platform to Broader MEMS Developer Community
InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of MotionTracking™ devices for consumer electronics, continuing on a tradition of pioneering MEMs technology breakthroughs, today came forward with another game-changing strategy. The company is offering its proprietary MEMS fabrication process for use by all MEMS developers on a limited licensing basis. The NF-Shuttle offering enables emerging MEMS developers to focus on innovation rather than time consuming and costly specialized fabrication development. The NF-Shuttle will be showcased today at the MEPTEC MEMS Technology Symposium at the San Jose Holiday Inn. Continue Reading »
Appcelerator: Fragmentation, Monetization Issues Hurting Interest in Android Development
Developers are losing interest in creating apps for Google’s Android OS due to platform fragmentation issues and its numerous internationals monetization models, according to Appcelerator. Continue Reading »
Appcelerator Says Developers’ Interest in Android Is Waning
Although Google’s Android mobile OS was supposed to rule the world by now, support for developing apps for Android is actually waning. That’s according to Appcelerator, which provides a platform for developing for Android, iOS and HTML5. The company has regularly surveyed the 300,000 developers currently in its network. The data shows that over the past three Quarters, interest in developing mobile applications to run on Android platforms (both tablet and smartphone ) has fallen off more than 10 per cent.By contrast, interest in developing for the iPhone dropped only slightly but interest in developing for the iPad has remained consistently high. The least popular mobile OS out of the four is Android for tablets. Continue Reading »
