remi francard's List: Mobile APP oppys

• "It's no longer devices, but apps that are driving the demand for products, and shaping the future of the devices,"
• You need to rely on others—a network of partners—to come up with attractive apps. And you must move quickly."
• "It could be just a few apps that really work for your audience in a specific market.
• You need to rely on a network of partners to pull this off.

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• Globe Telecom of The Philippines, Maxis of Malaysia, Optus of Australia, Taiwan Cellular Corporation, Telkomsel of Indonesia and Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel).

• Vietnam is set to become one of the largest mobile markets in Asia, with an estimated 120 million subscribers by the end of 2014,
• ietnam are expected to add 53 million subscriptions over the next five years,

• A coalition of 48 companies is gearing up to deliver similar digital media services this year available for anyone who wants to license its specs. "We believe we can significantly expand the digital market place, and the only way you can do it is if you give choice of [service providers] and devices," said Mitch Singer, president of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE).
• Apple commands as much as 80 percent of the $250 million market for digitally distributed songs and movies
• DECE aims to enable a broad array of cellphones, STBs, portable media players and other devices to tap into an equally broad range of digital media services that sell and store music, movies and e-books

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• "It's a fragmented consumer experience," said Arash Amel, a research director for digital media at Screen Digest. "Movies you might buy from one store may not work with other services or play on devices made by some OEMs," he said
• The big questions for DECE is whether it can it grow the 20 percent of digital distribution business not dominated by Apple, "or is it effectively a collation of smaller market players,"
• This is the beginning of a new phase of digital distribution,

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• Ajax allows content on Web pages to update immediately when a user performs an action

• Ajax (shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML^[1]) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications.

• we're seeing a shift in how companies are consuming and using technology
• Spending on cloud-based and SaaS solutions are up
• business process utility" or "business service cloud," where moving the technology, the application or the workflow to the cloud is point number one
• No longer do you have to go out and buy the building, buy the infrastructure, buy the technology. You literally say, "I like the technology, I have a domain expertise, (or a unique intelligence, or a unique capability in a particular area) -- I can get my infrastructure from the cloud."

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• Cloud computing can be likened to the provision of electricity.
• In the traditional model, each one of those enterprises would have their own copy in-house, so the provider would have sold 51,000 copies of the application
• In the traditional business model, 70% of the IT budget is typically allocated to the maintenance of infrastructure and applications. This spending can be drastically reduced with cloud computing
• will allow companies and individuals to share and collaborate with an almost unlimited number of experts and customers.

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• The CAGR of portable electro-medical device market is expected to go up significantly, with market survey showing rapid expansion from 8 billion yuan ($1.17 billion) in 2006 to 28 billion yuan ($4.1 billion) in 2011.
• Like ADI, the worldwide semiconductor manufacturers cast more eyes on the portable/home electro-medical device market of China. L
• "China and the world have a huge demand for the portable electro-medical devices, and China will enter the list of the largest electro-medical device manufacturers and largest markets."
• The market has an increasingly large demand for the respirators and electrocardiogram monitor that can be used in homes or in small community health service hospitals. Some medical products that are only used in hospitals (for example, electrocardiogram) will also enter homes. Additionally, some future-proof home medical products will come into the world."

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• Wi-Fi chip shipments in 2009 increased approximately 28 per cent y-on-y,
• Total revenue achieved an estimated CAGR of 18 per cent between 2009 and 2014
• The demand for Wi-Fi ICs in mobile devices and consumer electronic devices are the two key engines for Wi-Fi IC's market growth
• The most significant variation in Wi-Fi enabled products is the protocol type of the embedded Wi-Fi

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• Operators of 4G networks will refuse to be marginalised as 'dumb data pipe' service providers. Instead, they will offer suites of "smart services"—some internally developed, others via partnerships with third party suppliers—that will be provided over 'smart networks' enabled with all-IP technologies, IMS infrastructure and cloud-based storage."
• Internet access service will be the "killer 4G service." This is not surprising considering 4G networks are data-only. However, a suite of premium services will collectively drive significant consumer adoption, revenues and profits, including location services, such as turn-by-turn directions and POIs; multimedia services, such as VoD and P2P video sharing; media broadcast services, such as pay-per-view TV and digital radio; and gaming services, such as multiplayer and augmented reality games.
• Operators will take advantage of this market opportunity by breaking down their walls and building open ecosystems
• They will partner with third-party service providers from whom they can license and re-brand services; they'll work with network and handset OEMs to influence infrastructure and device specs; and they'll join ecosystem development organisations, such as Alcatel-Lucent's ng Connect programme

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• trop gourmand en ressources, en autonomie, risque de voir se multiplier des applications Web en dehors de l'App Store..."

• Présenter des références à d'autres plates-formes dans l'iPhone App Store n'est pas pertinent.

• D’après un analyste, le piratage des application pour iPhone engendrerait un manque à gagner de 450 millions de dollars

• une faible minorité se paye la part du lion en termes de ventes et donc de revenus.
• Il s'avère que ce développeur pense qu'Apple retire de l'AppStore toutes les applications aux concepts trop similaires - une confusion avec le fait qu'Apple a tendance à retirer les applications trop similaires aux siennes

• The market for tablet PCs consists of less than two million systems a year and is even declining according to some market watchers.
• The iPad is not a good e-book,
• Apple is attacking Kindle and Nook devices with a color system better for watching movies or browsing the Web, but worse for reading e-books
• Apple will sell a million of these just to the Apple faithful, doubling the tablet market,
• but the last thing publishers want is yet another format they have to support

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