Innovation in digital technologies shows no signs of abating. The pervasive impact of these technologies means that it is sometimes hard to classify and predict their potential impact. We use a functional classification here to bring order to this confusion and enable some assessment of relevance and impact.
Disney’s investment and joint-venture partnership with ad-supported streaming video site Hulu, will seriously impact existing players like Google’s YouTube and Apple's iTunes service.
Arun Muthirulan, 02 May 2009
- Content Creation and Management,
- Advertising and Promotion Technologies,
- Security,
- Transaction and Customer Management,
- Integration and Process Management,
- Core Computing and Processing Technologies,
- Communications Technology,
- Databases,
- Digital Rights Management,
- Search,
- Widgets,
- Virtualization,
- Advanced Engineering
With Ad revenues falling, content owners are looking to develop alternate revenue streams more closely tied to their users' online behaviour. In a slowing worldwide economy, these initiatives are key to their survival until growth returns to the market. YouTube exemplifies the challenges that...
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Michelle Wong, 26 April 2009
Nokia has invested $70 million for a minority stake in the mobile payment technology company Obopay. This is another salvo in the ongoing battle being fought to control the mobile payments segment between banks, mobile networks, handset makers and start-ups.
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Arun Muthirulan, 19 April 2009
WiMax and LTE (Long Term Evolution) are shaping up as competitors to dominate the next generation of high speed data services for mobile customers. Although their origins are both in OFDM, these two emerging technologies are being promoted by rival camps aiming to establish the next industry...
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Reiko Uchida, 13 April 2009
Tanla Solutions, based in Hyderabad, India is establishing a 50:50 joint venture with ZED Worldwide Holdings SL, a Spanish digital content and services company after it received approval from India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The JV is set up as a limited liability company, to...
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Michelle Wong, 07 April 2009