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Social networking is becoming personal broadcasting, says Vanden Brink. He is sowing charts about the meteoric increase in video treams and viewing time on Facebook among its 400 million users. From August through October 2009, video usage on Facebook shot up 840% in the mobile market -- views via mobile. He calls this an "exaflood" of data on mobile. Mobile data traffic reached one exabyte/month at a rate twice as fast as fixed lines. "We're predicting that by 2013 we'll be in excess of 2 exabytes per month. We're talking the equivalent of 500 million DVDs being transmitted over the mobile data networks." | Social networking is becoming personal broadcasting, says Vanden Brink. He is sowing charts about the meteoric increase in video treams and viewing time on Facebook among its 400 million users. From August through October 2009, video usage on Facebook shot up 840% in the mobile market -- views via mobile. He calls this an "exaflood" of data on mobile. Mobile data traffic reached one exabyte/month at a rate twice as fast as fixed lines. "We're predicting that by 2013 we'll be in excess of 2 exabytes per month. We're talking the equivalent of 500 million DVDs being transmitted over the mobile data networks." | ||
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You now connect with colleagues via social network. he says more and more people now contact him preferentially through his social networks, rather than via mass communication. Some phones now have 12-megapixel cameras. | You now connect with colleagues via social network. he says more and more people now contact him preferentially through his social networks, rather than via mass communication. Some phones now have 12-megapixel cameras. | ||
| − | The other trend he identifies is "the loss of the medium." In five years, the notion of a cell phone is subsumed by the notion of the activity. "We are right now in the phase of mobile electronics and electronics in general, we talk about nouns and verbs ... what's actually happening is these things are slowly blurring together." Why do you have to have a phone for audio communciation? Vanden Brink, when you can do it over a multi-function device. | + | The other trend he identifies is "the loss of the medium." In five years, the notion of a cell phone is subsumed by the notion of the activity. "We are right now in the phase of mobile electronics and electronics in general, we talk about nouns and verbs ... what's actually happening is these things are slowly blurring together." Why do you have to have a phone for audio communciation? Vanden Brink, when you can do it over a multi-function device. Your social stream will augment your reality, he says. |
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| + | Unbiquitous and high-speed connectivity is cited as another trend. He says it is no longer true that other countries are way ahead of the United States on high-speed wireless technology. He says there are 25 U.S. metros that now have so-called "4G" technology available. | ||
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"Business, Technology and the Media: Charting a Course Through Chaos"
Running notes from Bill Densmore from the two-day symposium, "Business, Technology and the Media: Charting a Course Through Chaos," at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism. There may be some typos in the moment, which we'll go back and correct later so consider this a work in progress! WATCH LIVE STREAM
Samsung executive overviews mobile growth
We're going for two full days on Monday, March 15 and Tuesday, March 16 (2010) here in Columbia, Mo. Getting us started this morning is Mark Vanden Brink, vp of technology solutions for the wireless terminals division of Samsung Telecommunciations America.
Social networking is becoming personal broadcasting, says Vanden Brink. He is sowing charts about the meteoric increase in video treams and viewing time on Facebook among its 400 million users. From August through October 2009, video usage on Facebook shot up 840% in the mobile market -- views via mobile. He calls this an "exaflood" of data on mobile. Mobile data traffic reached one exabyte/month at a rate twice as fast as fixed lines. "We're predicting that by 2013 we'll be in excess of 2 exabytes per month. We're talking the equivalent of 500 million DVDs being transmitted over the mobile data networks."
Trends shaping mobile for the future
You now connect with colleagues via social network. he says more and more people now contact him preferentially through his social networks, rather than via mass communication. Some phones now have 12-megapixel cameras.
The other trend he identifies is "the loss of the medium." In five years, the notion of a cell phone is subsumed by the notion of the activity. "We are right now in the phase of mobile electronics and electronics in general, we talk about nouns and verbs ... what's actually happening is these things are slowly blurring together." Why do you have to have a phone for audio communciation? Vanden Brink, when you can do it over a multi-function device. Your social stream will augment your reality, he says.
Unbiquitous and high-speed connectivity is cited as another trend. He says it is no longer true that other countries are way ahead of the United States on high-speed wireless technology. He says there are 25 U.S. metros that now have so-called "4G" technology available.
