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Deloitte Digital CEO , Peter Williams - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep27
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:03:11
Publish Date: 2012-08-02 20:25:48
Description: Interview with Deloitte Digital CEO Peter Williams on digital wallets. Leon and Garry discuss issues including: Apple looking at getting into social media and investing in Twitter. Samsung shipping nearly twice as many smartphones as Apple during the second quarter. According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung shipped 50.5 million units in its second quarter — the largest number of shipments ever made by a smartphone manufacturer in a quarter — and occupied about 35% of the global market. The start of the court case between Apple and Samsung in the US. Google telling regulators it would delete the ill-gotten data after being caught spying on people across Australia and Europe with its Wi-Fi-slurping Street View cars. Google nearing a settlement with regulators in Europe over its market power. Google buying Wildfire, a startup specialising in advertising on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. UK telecom service provider British Telecom (BT) revealing that more than a third of all Google Android applications contain some form of malware. BT analysed more than 1000 Android applications. Google-owned YouTube dropping another $200 million into the programming to more effectively market the nearly 100 channels boasting professional videos. Google unveiling its new initiative for the home: Google Fiber TV. The interactive service allows you to watch and record up to 500 hours of television — and tape up to eight shows at once — across its new Google Fiber Internet network. Google making good on its plans to improve Maps and Earth by adding high-resolution imagery. Yahoo being turned into Google. Ex-Google manager Marissa Mayer, who was appointed Yahoo’s CEO the other week, is Googlifying Yahoo. Apple forking out about $350m in cash for a security company that makes embedded security solutions for mobile devices. Twitter jumping into the global media game with both feet. It’s launched a landmark partnership with NBC Universal for the Olympic Games that will see a team of curators or editors producing a Twitter-based news hub — turning the service into what “the official narrator” of the games. Twitter revealing that the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games generated more than 9.66 million tweets, as the first day of the event went on to rack up more tweets than the entire 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Also, spectators using Twitter jammed the transmissions of data from Sunday’s men’s cycling race, disrupting the BBC’s coverage of the event, according to Olympics organizers A study by social media monitor Semiocast revealing that over 500 million people are on Twitter and Americans and Brazilians are the most connected. A Taiwanese university suing Apple for alleged patent infringement in its Siri voice assistant. Apple revealing that the latest version of OS X hit 3 million downloads in four days. PricewaterhouseCoopers' latest entertainment and media outlook report revealing that almost one-third of Australians will have switched to an IPTV subscription service by 2016. Microsoft overhauling its free webmail service, dropping the Hotmail name it has used since acquiring the product in 1998, and renaming it Outlook.com.
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