Tag Report: ‘ipad’
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Grapevine Star Media – comScore 2013 Mobile Future Report
The annual report examines the U.S. mobile and connected device landscape in 2012, highlighting trends that have shaped mobile media consumption and shifted market dynamics across mobile networks, platforms, and OEMs.
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Apple iPhone 5 Launch, Google YouTube Impact
We expect that iOS 6 will roll out formally either today or within the next week as the iPhone 5 deploys. And Google has slipped in at the last minute to anticipate the change with its own new and much enhanced version of the YouTube app now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Early this morning, YouTube’s head of mobile Andrey Doronichev posted to the YouTube blog announcing the arrival of the new YouTube app.
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Media Alert – The Long And The Short Of Good-Enough Tablets
For the millions of newcomers who embraced the Fire and Nook Tablet this holiday, however, I imagine the experience is different. In the end, both gadgets put in consumers’ hands more media, of more kinds, with greater fidelity and portability than they likely have experienced before.
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Kindle Fire in Hot Demand – Bigger Version Coming in 2012
Amazon may be launching at least one larger version of the Kindle Fire in the first half of 2012
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Media Alert – ‘USA Today’ Supplements iPad Presence With Flipboard Partnership
Flipboard has been focusing on alliances with magazine brands like The New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine in recent months. While any media brand’s feed can be pulled into the aggregation app, which also draws popular articles from a user’s social network relationships, the featured content partners enjoy more fluid content rendering in Flipboard.
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Media Trend Alert – Marketers: Mobile Social Networking Scores With Users
Social networking applications on mobile devices rate highly for reach, frequency and time spent, according to new research from Experian Simmons that used metering technology to track usage of U.S. smartphone owners between March and July this year.
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GrapevineStar Mobile Trend Alert – Tablet Computers Steal Time from Videogame Consoles and Print
All those hours tablet and eBook owners spend with their irresistible devices have to come from somewhere. Among most of us, iPads, Kindles and Nooks are stealing mind share from console gaming. According to a new survey of 3,000 adult tablet/eBook users
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GrapevineStar Media & Entertainment Salutes and Says Good-bye to Steve Jobs 1955-2011
GrapevineStar’s media and entertainment groups jointly sends out prayers and support to Steve Jobs personal and business family. The world will miss this creative, technology genius. Steve Jobs will go down in history along side greats like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney among others. “I am proud and excited to have lived during the life and times of Steve Jobs” ….Jacob Miles, Chairman GrapevineStar….please continue for more info on the life and times of Steve Jobs
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GrapevineStar Mobile Alert – What is Your Best Mobile Strategy?
There is no question that mobile devices from smartphones, like iphone, android, microsoft and more along with the tablets from ipad, galaxy, kindle fire and more are impacting all aspects of our lives at home and in business. For businesses mobile strategy is a must have, the first step is understanding the importance of a sound cultural and management foundation for mobile innovation.
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Grapevine Star Mobile Trend Alert – Google, Android, Apple, IPhone lead the Way According to Nielsen Survey
The latest Nielsen survey of U.S. consumers shows that the Android may be a friendly monster robot, but it is eating the market. Among those polled, 43% now own a phone based on the Google mobile OS. And the momentum is with the platform. Among those who have purchased a smartphone in the last three months, 56% bought an Android model.
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GrapevineStar Media Trend Alert – Apple Plays its Smartphone Gaming Card…Teaming with Grapevine’s GameStop
Apple and the smartphone gaming market it jump-started is taking market share from Nintendo? In something more than a trend or sign of the times, Grapevine, Texas based games retail giant, GameStop has started taking used iPods, iPhones and iPads for credit at its store, apparently in preparation for a full-scale Apple harvest and retail push. This is another clear trend indicator that mobile media is taking more market share from the existing gaming market.
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GrapevineStar Media Alert – Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook Named CEO
Steve Jobs has had and continues to have a profound impact on media and entertainment. The first thing that comes to mind for most people is Apple Computer and its earth shaking hardware designs, apple computer, imac, macbook pro, mac air, itunes, ipod, iphone, ipad and of course its easy to use graphically exciting software. Steve Jobs impact on the music industry, film industry, animation is woefully under represented in the media. Take for example……
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Congratulations to Google+ and our friend Louis Gray
Silicon Valley tech blogger and startup consultant Louis Gray is turning his passion for Google’s products and services into a career. Google was smart enough to offer Gray an opportunity to be an evangelist for Google+. .Great Choice Google…Congratulations Louis
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GrapevineStar Launches Intellectual Property based Social Game Program
GrapevineStar, owner of an extensive library of character based intellectual properties is, ramping up its efforts to attract third party developers, advertising agencies, studios & others to utilize its properties for social games.
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Obama praises the success of Apple’s Steve Jobs
Responding to a question from CBS reporter Mark Knoller, who asked about the divide between the middle class and the wealthy, Obama said it was a fact that the top 1 percent or even a smaller slice of the population have a larger proportion of the income share than at any time since the 1920s. Then he added that everyone should “have a shot at the American Dream.”
