HTML5 dev costs....well worth the 30% Apple "ransom"

Interesting news with the first shots across the iTunes bow

First
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563243-93/amazon-lets-rip-with-autorip-music-service/
When you buy an AutoRip-enabled CD, you automatically get the MP3 version for free, and those MP3 versions will be available via Amazon's Cloud Player.

and now

http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/smart-phones/amazon-dodges-apple-tax-with-mobile-mp3/240146550
Amazon.com is reinforcing its challenge to Apple's iTunes with the launch of a Web-based MP3 store designed for users of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch

I'm sure the HTML5 dev costs would have been high....but well worth the 30% Apple "ransom", personally i still purchase ALL of my music on cd's and rip to my own media server as i prefer any purchase = any device and anywhere regardless of what vendors decide i "should or shouldnt do".



Cheers,
Dean

Competition is whats missing from the USA

Next time someone says that incumbent providers is a good thing....show them this article.

- http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2012/11/time-warner-boots-up-wi-fi-hotspots-starter-internet-tier-in-kc?

Competition is whats missing in the USA telco market today. (wish Google or Fios would come to brooklyn heights to shake up TimeWarner).

Kraft pays NeoMedia

NeoMedia Licenses Mobile Barcode Patents to Kraft Foods Group, Inc.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121127005993/en/NeoMedia-Licenses-Mobile-Barcode-Patents-Kraft-Foods?

Suckers….. there is a fool born every minute. Lol Renee Zahery you’re a fool.


Cheers,
www.Cognation.net/QR

Retail App Geofencing

In store geo fencing - http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/187153/beyond-showrooming-in-store-mobile-users-want-i.html


My thoughts are do you really want a "walmart" app running in the background so that when you happen to walk into a store the geofence fires up this weeks special.

As Eddie murphy would say in Coming To America "clap clap WIPERS!!"

USA TV advertising only delivers $12 a month per user?

Can this be for real?

USA TV advertising only delivers $12 a month per user?
(slide 12)
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-roi-slideshow-2012-9#these-are-the-biggest-advertisers-see-the-link-below-if-you-want-more-detail-on-the-30-biggest-advertisers-and-their-campaign-strategies-19

If this is accurate charge me $12 a month more per month please and go completely ad free.....it would be the best $12 i spend a month.

Thoughts?

Patent trolls

and this is how a lot of patents should be dealt with
- http://jacquesmattheij.com/my-brush-with-a-patent-troll

City Lens

At  its Windows Phone 8 event in New York City, Nokia not only showed off its flagship Lumia 920, it also showed off some of Nokia’s unique Windows Phone apps and features, including its new PureView Camera and Nokia City Lens technologies.
Nokia’s City Lens is an augmented reality (AR) application that allows users to find things to do — and get more information about a location — simply by pointing their phone’s camera at a location.
http://mashable.com/2012/09/05/nokia-city-lens/

Great.....now all we need is for 200m people to buy the Nokia Lumina to make this work.

Unless there is some common platform where all location information is API'd together (eg wikipedia, foursquare,facebook) Augmented Reality will only work when there is critical mass on a single platform.