Google TV

excerpts from:
http://www.google.com/tv/

TVs are the center of our living rooms. 5 billion people use them. That is more than the number of people who use mobile phones or computers.

Knowing how the web transformed those devices, imagine what it could potentially do for the most ubiquitous screen in the world (TV)!

Google TV is an adventure where TV meets the web, apps, search, and the world's creativity. Like Android, Google TV will be an open software platform. From the Beginning, it will be able to work with any TV. Before long, anyone will be able to write applications for it. 


Apps, on your television. 


Your smart phone has apps. Now, your TV does too. Google TV comes with several of your favorite apps, and next year developers will be able to create their own. 

Google TV lets your search across every channel, every app, and the entire web simultaneously. Television, meets search engine. 


Google TV --- TV, apps, search, and the web-----together at last. 




Some early information regarding app development for Google TV and app/website optimization for TV screens(does not yet seem to be very clear or definitive):


information from :
http://www.google.com/tv/developers.html


Starting early next year, developers will be able to create and sell Android apps for Google TV (more information coming soon)


Optimize for TV
Designers are enhancing their existing websites for an optimal viewing experience on the television. 

Google TV Web Site Optimization

Optimize your web site for a "10-foot" UI designed to be used in a home entertainment system environment, and specifically for Google TV. The Google TV logo: 

Four main topics for website optimization:

• Adhere to various user experience (UX) concepts that are relevant to the 10-foot UI and that work well in the Google TV Environment.
• An implementation guide that provides HTML, CSS, and JavaScript samples as well as other technical tips on optimizing your site for Google TV.
• Guidelines for optimizing performance of Adobe Flash on your site.
• A checklist of optimization tasks to track your progress.

(referenced from: http://code.google.com/tv/web/ )

Android Apps Market Extends Support for Selling and Buying to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore

Excerpted from:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-countries-more-sellers-more-buyers.html

Support for paid application sales is now expanded to developers in 29 countries, with today’s additions of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.

In addition, Android Market users from 32 countries will be able to buy apps, with the addition of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan. No action is necessary if you have targeted your paid apps to be available to “All Locations” and would like to launch in these additional countries. If you have not selected “All Locations” and would like to target these additional countries, or if you have selected “All Locations” and do not want to launch your apps in these additional buyer countries, please visit the Android Market publisher site regularly over the next two weeks to make the necessary adjustments as the new buyer countries launch.

chinese teach - interesting eLearning company

http://www.extremelearn.com/about.htm
 
Extreme Learning was founded in 2002 by David Payne, a former school principal motivated by a strong desire to continue working to improve children and families’ experiences with the California education system.  David crafted a new technology-driven approach to academic support designed to ignite students’ passion for learning and boost academic achievement. The first Extreme Learning Center opened that founding year in Morgan Hill, providing tutoring and enrichment services directly to families.
In July 2003, the California State Board of Education approved Extreme Learning as a Supplemental Service Provider, and the company began offering an Academic Support Program and Exit Exam preparation to school districts. Through customer-oriented, high-tech, low-cost programs and documented student success, Extreme Learning has expanded statewide.
Extreme Learning currently serves more than 13,000 students per year in 1,000 schools across 98 districts throughout California with our onsite and @Avanza Online programs.
Extreme is led by a team of distinguished, experienced executives:
  David Payne, Founder & CEO
  Mary Smathers, Co-Owner
  Ben Politzer, VP & CFO
  Damian Cozzi, VP Operations & Technology

mobile cloud - 10/18/2010 -1

Event Information: Mobile Internet Offload: Pitfalls and Best Practices 

Date and time: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 8:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) 


Description:

Broadband wireless networks are approaching saturation due to an explosion of traffic spurred by smart phones and wireless dongles. If not addressed, congestion leads to poor quality of experience and ultimately customer churn. However, adding capacity to the wireless core network is a significant investment and thus operators are looking at novel approaches to deliver more capacity more cost effectively. Appropriate solutions can empower network equipment providers to incorporate Internet Offload / Traffic Offload Gateway functionality to provide congestion relief for the wireless core network. By identifying and routing certain classes of traffic directly to the Internet rather than via the wireless core network, operators can increase customer satisfaction and delay costly core capacity upgrades. An Internet Offload / Traffic Offload Gateway is flexible in its deployment options and is applicable to both LTE and 3G wireless networks.

This webinar address the drivers for the massive increase in traffic, presents the options for offloading traffic from the carrier core network both for 3G and LTE and presents a solution architecture for an advanced internet offload / traffic offload gateway.

Speakers

Todd Mersch, Director of Product Line Management, Continuous Computing

Karl Wale, Director of Product Line Management, Continuous Computing

Devaraj Srinivasan, General Manager, Wipro Technologies

Mary Lennighan, Editor, Total Telecom

 

Duration: 1 hour