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The iPad announcement is finally here and the FrameChannel team has been working on the ultimate screensaver app in its anticipation. To turn an idle iPad into a dynamic photo and information experience the FrameChannel app will be second to none
From www.wirelesspictureframe.com (January 25, 2010)
Internally, we often discuss the “sweet spot” for the FrameChannel service. Wikipedia defines a sweet spot as a place where a combination of factors suggest a particularly suitable solution. FrameChannel has been very successful with a variety of connected screens in partnerships with companies such as Sony, Viewsonic, Roku, Toshiba, Samsung, Philips, Kodak, and Motorola. But FrameChannel’s “sweet spot” may soon be defined with Apple’s likely centerpiece announcement this week of their highly anticipated Apple Tablet.
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You couldn’t walk very far at CES this year without seeing a product or prototype in the Tablet, Slate PC or Media Player space. With the anticipation of the Apple Tablet announcement later this month, many CE companies were trying to beat Steve to the punch by showing off their newest Slate PC. All great news for FrameChannel users as FrameChannel will be available on many of these devices in both a screensaver mode, turning your idle tablet into a decorative and informative connected screen while also offering an interactive mode, one click access to the content that matters to you most.
And for every tablet announced, it seemed there was a media player announced from Boxee to Roku to Popbox, many CE companies are getting in the space of allowing over the top access to internet content on your TV, bypassing the cable companies. FrameChannel is already available on many of these devices and others are lining up.
Based on the activity at CES, looks like a huge year for the FrameChannel service!
As noted on WirelessPictureFrame, this Apple Tablet is the most talked about device that has never been officially announced. Just as Apple reset the bar for the mobile phone industry, we are excited that they will do the same for connected screens as the opportunity for a FrameChannel interactive screensaver on a large touch screen device is something we’ve been talking about since FrameChannel was first dreamed up.
When this Apple Tablet hits the market, I’m sure we’ll all be blown away as we always are with new Apple innovations. We don’t know for sure what it will be called (iSlate and iPad are the rumors), we don’t know what cool new features it will have but one thing we do know is that an internet connected screen like this will need something cool to run when its in “passive” mode. FrameChannel is the perfect screensaver app for this new device. It let’s you pick and choose the content that matters to you most, from your photos on your favorite photosharing sites and social networks and mix that with updates from your favorite news sources, blogs, RSS feeds, weather reports, sports scores and more. We can’t wait for this new device to launch as it should be a superb FrameChannel experience. Stay tuned, Apple has a big event in late January which could make for a very Happy New Year for all of us.
Syabas, a global provider of over-the-top settop software and hardware and makers of the award winning Popcorn Hour A-110 and C-200, today announced that Thinking Screen Media will be bringing its FrameChannel content widgets to the Popcorn Hour and the company’s new DAVID platform. From sports scores, to stock quotes, weather and news along with photos and status updates from your favorite social networks, FrameChannel offers over 1000 RSS-based content widgets in 12 different languages. A widget’s content can be as global as a BBC newsfeed or as local as a small town high school football team. In addition, users can add their favorite blogs or content sources that are not yet part of the FrameChannel library.
Thinking Screen's mission is to bring millions of connected screens to life by working closely with hardware manufacturers and content providers to transform these devices into dynamic information appliances with superb tools and content.
Our flagship product, FrameChannel, allows frame owners to program a unique stream of images that is updated dynamically, marrying a user's own photos with fresh content provided by FrameChannel and its partners.
Find out more about Thinking Screen at Thinkingscreen.com.
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