Shifting the Focus from Overcoming Complexity to Usability
The Age of the Mobile Service The traditional, limited stand-alone mobile apps have been replaced by the data and contextual richness of mobile services. In fact, most of the applications on your mobile device are now mobile services. Mobile services are connected applications pulling data from backend services. You can see these new mobile services…
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Convergence Is Coming of Age with LTE and IMS
Today the largest carrier in North America, Verizon Wireless, launched its first 4G LTE device – the HTC Thunderbolt and NewBay is right there in the mix powering the cloud with its LTE/IMS live solution – Verizon Media Manager. Some may not view Verizon’s launch as a big deal and again harp on things like…
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Cloud Video Quality: A Subjective Subject
When watching a show on your TV at home, do you tend to notice if the video quality is less than perfect? Maybe not. How about when watching video clips on your phone or tablet? Probably. Perhaps you don’t pay too much attention to the details, but most people notice when the picture “doesn’t look…
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Rumors Indicate that Apple to Respond to Threat from Cloud-based Content Services
Rumors are again circulating today that Apple is close to a deal with music labels to give iTunes’ customers easier access to music they’ve purchased across multiple devices. The Apple rumors come hot on the tail of NewBay’s recent announcement at Mobile World Congress 2011: Play Your ‘iTunes’ Collection from any Device, Anywhere with NewBay….
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Maximising Notification Revenue Opportunities for Operators
As Seán Finlay discussed in an earlier blog entry, ‘notifications’ are key to delivering effective services and smartphone applications, but there are numerous challenges in delivering effective notifications. In this blog post I will examine these challenges from an operator perspective, suggest a solution that can be easily embraced and briefly describe the benefits of…
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Mobile Web App Development: Apple Top of the Heap
One of the most significant differences between legacy HTML and HTML5, is that the spec is being developed by a group consisting of the major browser developers including Mozilla, Apple and Opera, with support from Microsoft. The W3C plans to eventually release the HTML5 spec as an official recommendation, but that is a formality since…
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Register for Webinar: Optimizing Cloud-based Video Delivery
Join us for our webinar Optimizing Cloud-based Video Delivery Tuesday, March 8, 2011 9 AM PST (San Francisco) / 5 PM GMT (London) Presenter: Andrew Fuller, Senior Product Manager, NewBay At this webinar, Andrew Fuller will discuss: The explosion of video usage and the associated challenges Multi-screen video delivery from the Content Cloud Best practices…
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Ten things the LifeCache Platform can do to help Nokia succeed
I like and admire Nokia, even though they are a competitor to NewBay in some markets. My first mobile phone was a Nokia. The first GSM call was made on a Nokia. The first 3G phone was a Nokia. The first decent mobile game was Snake (not Angry Birds as my son likes to believe…
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NewBay Signs Global Licensing Agreement with LG Electronics
Great extension of our licensing agreement with LG. See the link below for the full press release. NewBay Signs Global Licensing Agreement with LG Electronics NewBay LifeCache Social Networking Gateway (SNG) to power social networking services across LG’s consumer devices http://www.newbay.com/news.php?story=pr110214_1 Click the link below to see the first LG-NewBay press release and several…
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Put your iTunes in the cloud and listen to them from any device
Today NewBay launched the following press release. Read below for more information… Play Your ‘iTunes’ Collection from any Device, Anywhere with NewBay When Apple first launched the iPod in 2001 it was a revolutionary product. In conjunction with the iTunes service (2003), the music industry was changed forever and so were our listing habits. But…
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