Twice as quick as 4G: World's fastest wireless network launches in South Korea... and you can download a movie in 40 seconds
South Korea's largest mobile operator is launching what it says is the world's fastest wireless network this week.
The LTE-Advanced network can download data at speeds twice as fast as 4G networks and 10 times faster than 3G services, according to SK Telecom Co.
Global Ad Trends: Mobile Takes Off, Internet Set to Surpass Print
After several false starts, mobile advertising has now truly taken off and is forecast to account for 37% of all growth in global ad expenditure this year, and 31% in 2014, according to a recent report by ZenithOptimedia.
Mobile advertising (defined in the report as internet ads delivered to smartphones and tablets, whatever their format) is still relatively small—with a total spend of $14.3 billion worldwide this year, or 2.8% of total ad expenditure.
However, it is growing extremely rapidly: 77% growth in 2013, followed by 56% in 2014 and 48% in 2015, ZenithOptimedia forecasts. By 2015, mobile ad spend is expected to total $33.1 billion and to account for 6% of total ad expenditure.
A New Scan For 3D Printing And Augmented Reality
Typically, after he finishes scanning a room with the Structure Sensor, a 3D scanner for mobile devices, Jeff Powers, chief executive officer of Occipital (the company behind Structure), gets a strong reaction from the audience.
“People yell at us: You didn’t actually make it (the finished scan) that fast,” he says. The fast motif seems to have carried over to his company Occipital’s Kickstarter campaign, which raked up $100,000 (their goal) in less than 3.5 hours.
HGTV Magazine Tests Social Sharing Feature in Print
HGTV Magazine is jumping on the e-commerce and social sharing trend. Its November issue, which hits newsstands Oct. 22, will let readers shop and share from the pages using technology from digital watermarking provider Digimarc.
Digimarc did a similar deal with Hearst Magazines sibling pub House Beautiful back in 2011, but HGTV is the first to use its new content-sharing feature, Digimarc Share.
Is Augmented Reality Right for Your Brand?
Augmented reality is defined as “the live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.” While technically accurate, to a consumer, AR is about something utterly different — something intangible, utilitarian, and evocative.
Hands on with Lady Gaga's ARTPOP album-app
A 3D pig is spinning on my iPad screen, with a photo of my cat mapped onto it, in front of a galactic cloud with the word DEATH spelled out in capital letters. In the background, Lady Gaga is singing about "Sexxx Dreams". Welcome to the ARTPOP app.
It's the long-awaited interactive companion to Gaga's new album of the same name, and the most high-profile music app since Bjork's Biophilia back in 2011. It was released as a free download for Android and iOS today, and has grand ambitions to say the least.
‘AppSeed’ Turns Your Sketches into Functional Prototypes
AppSeed is a clever app that automates transforming your sketches into functioning prototypes, bridging the gap between pen/paper and digital, through computer vision.
“It allows you to sketch your designs as you normally would and then manipulate your sketches directly on your phone. AppSeed can identify an enclosed space in your sketch, allowing you to make it into a button, input text, map, or another UI element.”
Google says its latest PageSpeed modules help render pages up to 2x faster, particularly on mobile devices
As part of its mission to speed up the Web, Google today announced the latest beta versions of its mod_pagespeed and ngx_pagespeed modules add new optimizations that result in a big performance bump. The company says it is seeing pages rendering up to 2x faster, particularly on mobile devices.
MEMI: Wearable Technology Made by Women for Women
MEMI is a smart device worn on the wrist, but it doesn't track steps, heart rate, sleep, or anything else for that matter. It has a very narrow focus: to filter through the diversions of smartphones while ensuring people don't miss notifications they care about. The smart bracelet buzzes to notify wearers of calls, text messages, and calendar events from the people they want to hear from.
AMC + AR
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Women + Mobile: The unbreakable bond by Time Inc. and Nuance Digital Marketing
A Look at Women and Their Relationship With Mobile Phones
Women really, really like their mobile devices. According to a new study from Time Inc. and Nuance Digital Marketing, 60 percent of women name their mobiles as the most important devices in their lives (significantly higher than men, at 43 percent). Not only is their smartphone the first thing she looks at in the morning (for 78 percent), it consumes their free time throughout the day, when they use it for engaging with social media, texting and shopping. While this time spent on their mobiles would suggest opportunities to advertise to women, fully 91 percent of women dislike ads they consider intrusive.
How Augmented Reality Works
Video games have been entertaining us for nearly 30 years, ever since Pong was introduced to arcades in the early 1970s. Computer graphics have become much more sophisticated since then, and game graphics are pushing the barriers of photorealism. Now, researchers and engineers are pulling graphics out of your television screen or computer display and integrating them into real-world environments. This new technology, called augmented reality, blurs the line between what's real and what's computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell.
Meta's Spaceglasses promise mobile augmented reality
Gribetz has a suggestion for escaping our device doldrums: Spaceglasses, a wearable computing device in the form of beefy eyeglasses stuffed with sensors, projectors, voice recognition technology and more.
The high-tech specs immerse users in a mobile augmented reality experience. Maps can be manipulated with your hands. When playing a first-person shooter video game you can quite literally become the shooter. Or imagine building a complex Lego structure and having the directions floating above the building blocks spread out in front of you.
UX Video Sketch 02 | Interactive Print
A quick user experience video
sketch demonstrating the exploration into the future of print.
Ingress, Google’s augmented reality game, will be open to all Android users from December 14
Time Inc. Signs on With Flipboard
No. 1 magazine publisher Time Inc. announced plans to put its magazine content on Flipboard. People and InStyle will roll out this week on the mobile news aggregator app, with Time and Fortune scheduled to follow in December.
Some publishers have pulled out of Flipboard, questioning its value as a revenue driver. Flipboard purports to be a friend to magazines. It displays their content in a magazine-like, flippable format, with the stated goal of helping publishers by driving people to subscribe and offering a new ad platform at print-like rates. But critics fear that users will simply bypass the publisher's site or publication altogether; one defector, Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall, went so far as to call Flipboard and its ilk "scams" (though he later softened his stance).
A Pet Recognition App That Reunites Lost Pets With Their Owners
‘PiP’ is a facial recognition app from Vancouver-based entrepreneur Philip Rooyakkers that recognizes your pet’s facial features so you can locate them when they’re lost.
The app records, classifies, and categorizes every feature of a dog’s or cat’s appearance. To use it, simply download the app, take a picture of your pet and enter its basic details. If the animal goes missing, you can send an alert to vet clinics, animal shelters, and fellow PiP users within a 15-mile radius. If someone finds an animal, they can upload a picture to initiate a matching process.
Harper's Bazaar Site Makeover Goes for Speedy Style
Much of HarpersBazaar.com is now shoppable, with e-commerce offerings throughout. Sharing opportunities have been streamlined, especially for Pinterest. The editor-in-chief (since June 2001) Glenda Bailey- and VP/publisher (since May 2011) Carol Smith-led hierarchy claims that HB is the most popular magazine media brand on Pinterest with 5 million followers.
Allure Rolls Out Mobile-Optimized Site
Beauty magazine Allure is rolling out a mobile site today that lets users sift through its 5,000-plus reviews while on the go—and should prove especially useful for point of purchase decisions.
Parent Condé Nast announced last year that it planned to launch mobile-optimized websites for all of its brands by the end of 2013, and there was a clear case to be made for Allure. The brand said its mobile traffic grew more than 230 percent in the past year and that nearly 40 percent of Allure.com's 2.3 average monthly uniques comes from mobile devices.