Here’s an impressive statistic: More than 62 percent of mobile browsing worldwide happens on an Apple device. To Web developers, this means that 62 percent of mobile users can’t properly see your site if you use Flash. And those 62 percent tend to be the ones with money to spend. On Wednesday, Adobe gave up hoping for Android to overtake iOS, and announced it would cease development of Flash for the mobile market. READ MORE
Microsoft just announced it will open up the use of its Kinect software development kit (SDK) for commercial applications, reports WinRumors. READ MORE
My husband and I decided a couple of years ago that we’d rather skip paying the monthly cable bill in favor of Netflix and other streaming content. Seems like we’re not the only ones. A new survey (in PDF) shows how streaming is growing dramatically, with Netflix alone outpacing the rest of Web usage, at least in terms of bandwidth. READ MORE
Got a particularly cute kid, or puppy…or product? We’ve all seen the phenomenon where a pair of funny twins, or a cat playing the piano gathers a zillion YouTube views. Is there a way to increase the likelihood of this happeneing to you? And if it does, can you make any serious money from it? Yes, and yes, according to The New York Times. READ MORE
A regular whiteboard seems pretty old fashioned considering everybody seems to be using online collaboration through platforms like Box.net, not to mention the digital whiteboards we’ve been hearing about for a while now. Now there’s another high tech whiteboard solution to add to the growing list of products simplifying teamwork between geographically diverse parties. READ MORE
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings would like us to stop talking about the past, and start looking to the future. If you believe what he writes in his shareholder letter, which was published yesterday, Netflix’s future seems well laid out. READ MORE
Not only is Dan Rayburn from StreamingMediaBlog predicting that the Kindle Fire is going to sell like crazy, he thinks Amazon is going to do something even Apple couldn’t do—jump-start the streaming media industry, resulting in the growth of video-related content consumption. That growth, he says, is going to help not only content owners but also all of the vendors who help those content owners create, ingest, transcode, store, manage, protect, monetize, distribute and track their content. READ MORE
As if the online video space wasn’t crowded enough already, YouTube might soon add 25 channels of all-original content, hoping to compete with the major television networks. READ MORE
As more former TV and movie viewers head online to consume video, the number of U.S. households without traditional cable service will triple by 2016, according to a new report from Magnaglobal, a media forecasting firm.With the market for online video expanding further in this five-year period, about 9 million households will forgo cable subscription. About 44 percent are “cord cutters:” Former cable subscribers who get ride of their subscription. But the majority — around 5 million — will be current teenagers who will never subscribe to cable. Read more at ReadWriteWeb.
Dish Network aimed a shot directly at rival Netflix today when it announced Blockbuster‘s new Movie Pass, a bundle that includes streaming video, DVDS, Blu-Rays, games — all for $10 a month. READ MORE
