tablet Articles

A tablet is a pharmaceutical dosage form. It comprises a mixture of active substances and excipients, usually in powder form, pressed or compacted from a powder into a solid dose. The excipients can include diluents, binders or granulating agents, glidants (flow aids) and lubricants to ensure efficient tabletting; disintegrants to promote tablet break-up in the digestive tract; sweeteners or flavours to enhance taste; and pigments to make the tablets visually attractive. A polymer coating is ...

Internet and Mobile Video Up, TV Down Says Nielsen [Infographic]

I stumbled upon a pretty cool infographic from Nielsen I thought I would share. It takes a look at media consumption on each screen for the past few quarters. There's nothing alarming here, TV took a small dip and in 2011 vs 2010 and other ...

Brightroll & Google Team Up for Video Advertising in Mobile Apps

Google and Brightroll today announced a new partnership that will see Brightroll pre-roll video advertising inventory being pulled into mobile apps through the AdMob SDK and the Brightroll AdMob Adapter. This makes Brightroll the first video advertising network to be integrated with the AdMob product.

The Rise of Tablets = Good News For Online Video Advertisers

Forrester expects that 112.5 million adults, or one-third of the adult population, will own a tablet by 2016, a revision of its previous forecast of 82.1 million. That's a huge jump, but it's not just from the iPad3 announced last week. The increase is due ...

Brightcove App Cloud Expands Features: Push Messaging, New Analytics

Brightcove has announced an expansion to its App Cloud feature set over in Spain at Mobile World Congress. If you're trying to reach Android, iOS and other mobile web users, you might be interested. The new features include intelligent cross-platform push messaging and content-level analytics ...

Mobile Video Is 50% Of All Wireless Traffic & Growing

Cisco powers the pipes that power your Internet. They also put out the Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2011–2016 which says that mobile video is taking up a whole lot of space in those pipes. Interesting that this report came out ...

What Does The Latest Nielsen Data Say About Cord Cutting?

More consumers are relying on broadband-only connections in their homes, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're cutting the cord. Nielsen's latest three-screen report reveals that there are now 5.1 million broadcast only/broadband homes in the United States, up 23% from last year. Those are homes ...

Tablet Video Viewing On Fire - Ooyala Q4 2011 Video Index

I got an advance sneak peek at Ooyala's Video Index for Q4 2011, and I didn't even have to beg! Every quarter, Ooyala looks at more than one billion analytics pings a day, follows the viewing habits of over 100 million unique viers and then ...

Android Video Viewing Gaining On iOS Devices

Encoding.com just released new numbers pulled from Vid.ly which show that Android is gaining on iOS in terms of video viewing. It's no surprise as the operating system has been steadily stealing market share quarter after quarter and is available on far more different devices ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Future Edition

The future of online video sometimes feels like it's only a day away, as major advancements and changes take place every week. This week's online video news round up has all kinds of stories about the future: imminent moves from YouTube on subscriptions and a ...

How Consumers Use Tablets & Mobile Devices In The Home

Like most TV networks, Scripps Networks has launched programming on mobile devices and tablets. So far, the programmer has found that tablet usage is four to five times that of the other devices. We caught up with Scripps executive Jeff Meyer and he shared insights ...

Hollywood's Ultraviolet Picks Up First Major Distributor: Amazon

I would consider myself to be cautiously optimistic about Ultraviolet--Hollywood's big gamble on digital movies. The service would provide a digital locker that consumers can "fill" with movie purchases, while the films themselves live in the cloud. I'm optimistic because I'm ready for digital media, ...

Sony CES 2012 Press Conference: New Video Related Product Lineup

It's CES people and time to bring the RAIN! As in a downpour of awesome announcements on cool new tech, services and everything connected. What's been the big thing so far for me? Well the Sony press conference promised one login for everything and that ...

Google TV Marketplace Turns YouTube Into TV - The Reel Web #21

This week on the Reel Web we cover a story about a patent that Google recently updated about a marketplace for Google TV. The Google TV Marketplace will feature channel apps, possibly from YouTube, and may even be bundled together as a network for a ...

2011 Online Video In Review - Industry Leaders Reflect On The Year's Trends

Along with talking to people about online video advertising in 2011, I also asked around about how many thought the year went for online video in general. My specific question was: What was the biggest driver of online video in 2011?

Tablets, Magazines, & Lean Back Video With Jim Louderback, CEO Of Revision3

I had a chance to catch up recently with our friend Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3. Jim talks about how video has helped magazine brands recreate a kind of deep-dive content experience on tablets that readers are used to getting from print editions. He then ...