Until recently, most technologists and mobile industry executives viewed Wi-Fi as the “poor cousin” to licensed mobile communications.

And they most certainly never saw any role for Wi-Fi in mobile networks or their business. The explosion of mobile data traffic has changed all of that.

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The U.S. installed base of Internet-connected devices will grow to 900 million by 2017, according to MRG. Since 2010, the largest growth in connected devices has been with smartphones, media tablets and connected TVs.

The driving force behind this growth has been the creation of digital media ecosystems.

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Smartphone and media tablet penetration are rising fast in Canada. Yet Canada dramatically lags similar economies in mobile ad spending, according to eMarketer.

Smartphone usage in Canada has soared in the past two years. As of January 2013, 47% of internet users in Canada reported using a smartphone. Meanwhile, tablet usage in Canada more than doubled to 21% of internet users.

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The forward-looking outlook for the savvy leaders in the progressive digital media industry is very bright.

Annual revenue generated from digital content delivered to mobile phones and media tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion by 2016, according to Juniper Research.

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Online collaboration has evolved during the last decade, delivering even greater value — thanks to a new generation of business technology applications.

Forbes Insights released “Collaborating in the Cloud,” a Cisco-sponsored study examining the ways business leaders increasingly look at cloud collaboration as a way to increase productivity, accelerate business results and enhance innovation across borders and functions.

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No one could have imagined the fundamental impact the Internet would have on both society and the economy — changing our lives forever.

The Internet has already transformed the way we work, live, play, and learn. And, this is only the beginning.

The extraordinary growth and transformation of the Internet is unprecedented, but what does the future of technology hold, and where is the Internet heading?

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Device fragmentation is a tenacious problem for content providers and advertisers, across the globe.

Responsive web design — a single-URL site configuration that enables content providers to dynamically adjust content to fit the screen of any internet-enabled device — is seen as a way of addressing the challenge of a multiscreen environment.

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There are more than 3,000 video-on-demand services available in Europe, with nearly 580 mainly offering movies.

An increasing number of services are available through applications for tablets or smart televisions. Subscription video-on-demand services have proliferated in recent months, with 76 available at the last count.

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The Cosmonaut — a Spanish-made English-language film directed by Nicolás Alcalá and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor — raised over €300,000 from 5,000 contributors.

It’s much more than a film, it’s a whole universe. My idea is that when you finished watching the whole thing you have a sense of having watched a traditional film. A narrative linear one, even though the transmedia project or the films is nothing like that.

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According to Infonetics Research, residential gateways are critical to ensuring the successful delivery of these services within the home — particularly new video services.

Their most recent survey shows that the percentage of service providers offering multi-screen video — wireless delivery of video to mobile phones, PCs, and tablets — using a residential gateway device is growing quickly, from just 6 percent today to 50 percent by 2014.

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