Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom department highlights video games inspired by news and Nokia's application store

Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom Group facilitates consultations between our clients (institutional investors) and leading technology professionals on a wide variety of topics including semiconductors, data storage and security, computer hardware and software, satellite system operators, telecom equipment, cable and wireless providers, and advertising spending.

Our TMT network spans technology industries across the globe and includes CTOs, CIOs, marketing and business development executives, engineers, buyers, and resellers.

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From Madoff to Sully, news events inspire video games
May 26, 2009

When Navy snipers rescued an American cargo-ship captain last month from Somali pirates, it sounded like something from a movie.

This shooting game by Games2Win.com lets players try to rescue a ship captain from Somali pirates.

But in today's instant-gratification culture, there's no need to wait for Hollywood to re-enact that dramatic high-seas story. Video game developers are already on the case.

Online gaming site Games2Win launched "Saving Captain Phillips," a simple, two-dimensional shooting game, within nine days of the actual rescue. Not to be outdone, Kuma Games followed soon afterwards with "Somali Showdown: Pirates on the High Seas," a PC multiplayer action game that puts players in the middle of a pirate attack on a cargo ship -- and even lets them become one of the pirates.

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Nokia's Application Store Faces Apple Dominance
May 26, 2009

Nokia (NOK) is the world's largest handset company. It has been late to the high-end smart-phone market, but it has distribution leverage all over the world because of its 37% global market share. One of the things Nokia will need to cement its place in the smart-phone market is an application store like the one Apple (AAPL) has. Apple apps have been downloaded over one billion times, mostly onto its iPhone.

The Apple App store gives the company two significant advantages over its competition. The first is that outside developers make the software apps saving Apple engineers huge amounts of time and effort by building a worldwide network of people all working on products for the relatively new iPhone. Second, the apps are useful tools for entertainment, business management, and daily tasks. People with a handset that gives them so many features are unlikely to switch to competing products.

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Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom department highlights Apple, Twitter and Rupert Murdoch Wants to build Kindle Rival

Coleman Research Group’s Technology, Media & Telecom Group facilitates consultations between our clients (institutional investors) and leading technology professionals on a wide variety of topics including semiconductors, data storage and security, computer hardware and software, satellite system operators, telecom equipment, cable and wireless providers, and advertising spending.

Our TMT network spans technology industries across the globe and includes CTOs, CIOs, marketing and business development executives, engineers, buyers, and resellers.

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10 Things Apple Should Do With Twitter
March 30, 2009

There's no reason for Apple to buy Twitter, as rumor had it earlier this week. Apple's business is to sell more computers, iPods, and iPhones, and owning Twitter won't help with that at all.

But using Twitter more in Apple products could help, especially as the messaging/microblogging service picks up more steam.

Here's ten ideas for how Apple could work Twitter into its products:

Twitter support in iChat, Apple's messaging app.
Using Twitter for RSS-like feeds, such as featured iTunes songs, movies, TV shows, movie trailers, iPhone apps, etc.

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Prepaid wireless service could spur price war
March 30, 2009

News Corp (NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch has a global team of executives working away on developing a gadget for consuming Internet content. It's supposed to be something like Amazon's Kindle, according to reports in the Daily Beast and the New York Post.

The gadget would incorporate content from News Corp newspaper, TV and studio subsidiaries. News Corp digital boss Jonathan Miller is also talking to outside publishers and content creators about syndication deals.

The big idea is that Rupert wants to find a new way to charge consumers for content.

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