What is the state of the video revolution, video internet delivery, broadband, “smartphones”, education, entertainment and the mobile web?
Here’s a round-up of some recent links on these subjects:
- In a video-taped panel discussion, Walt Mossberg, tech writer and reviewer for the Wall Street Journal discusses the video revolution and the problem the United States has with Broadband on beet.tv.
- ABI Research just completed a series of reports highlighting the mobile web and predicts that the Mobile Browser market will grow tenfold to 1.5 billion units by 2013.
- The Smartphone market is continuing to grow, occupying 22% of the Asian mobile market in 2008, and worldwide smartphone shipments almost doubled between 2006 and 2007, with North American shipments also doubling.
- Piper Jaffray‘s semi-annual survey of teens sees legal music purchasing continuing to rise, along with iPhone ownership and plans to purchase an iPhone doubling.
- iTunes has become the number one music retailer in the United States, surpassing brick-and-mortars like Best Buy and Target in 2007, and finally Wal-Mart in 2008. Through iTunes you can also watch and rent movies on your computer, mobile device, or directly to your TV with no computer required.
- More user-friendly set-top boxes for viewing web content on televisions will be coming to market to join the likes of Apple TV and Tivo (with Amazon’s unbox content), with Blockbuster, among others, now working on devices.
- As for the mobile web in education, mLearning, (the shortened term for Mobile Learning) research, studies, whitepapers, and initiatives have been growing, with the work of many schools and universities informing the developments and discoveries. For one recent example among many, see Abilene Christian University’s initiative and list of resources on the subject.
