Posted on 13 May 2010. Tags: Apple, Brian Roberts, CBS Corp., Comcast Corp., DreamWorks Studios, FCC, iTunes, Les Moonves, Michael Powell, Stacey Snider, The Cable Show
**As published in RCR Wireless News**
LOS ANGELES – Media moguls from cable operators, networks and studios met on stage Wednesday morning with a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and a venture capitalist to hold court on the rapidly changing business models facing the industry and how alternative screens are playing a role in that.
“Every single piece of technology that’s come into being has been a friend to content,” said Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp. It’s hard to imagine him saying that even just a few short years ago, but he shows every indication of being on board now. Read the full story
Posted in Devices, Entertainment, Marketing, Policy, Tech, Video+TV
Posted on 06 May 2010. Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Darren Cross, Dictionary.com, Digital Hollywood, Flixster, Google, HP, iPad, iPhone, iPhone OS, iTunes, Jim Eadie, Jim Garrett, Microsoft, MTV Networks, Palm, Shravan Goli, Snapfinger, Steve Polsky
**As published in RCR Wireless News**
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. – For all the momentum Google’s Android operating system is enjoying of late, there are some key areas that many executives believe Apple has it beat on with the iPhone OS. These differentiating features – billing, user interface, development ease and scale (for at least the time being) — are nothing to scoff at either.
Now, with the iPad already surpassing 1 million units sold in as many months, there’s a reinvigorated sense of interest and easy-to-understand business reasons for placing more focus and investment in Apple’s mobile flavor.
A crowded panel of eight representing big media and publishers at Digital Hollywood yesterday spent considerable time heaping praise and wonder on Apple’s latest gadget. Later on, the OS offerings from BlackBerry, Google, Microsoft and HP-Palm got their fair shake, but Apple kept cropping up as the main draw. Read the full story
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