Technobabble # 7 - TV + Video News

Mobile Video Services Market Growing Fast

[Mobile Video] According to an Infonetics Research report mobile video services are expected to be worth nearly US$6B before the end of this decade. That would be a nearly 12,000 percent (not a typo) jump from 2005. [via Telephony Online]

China Will Have Own Digital TV Standard

China is expected to announce its own digital TV standard soon for their own market, estimated at around 400 million viewers. They also have 120 licensed pay television channels. [via Technology Review]

Giggles Gone Wild: Google To Listen To Your TV?

Google’s been talking about it for a while now: listening in on your TV shows while you watch so that it can serve you up ads related to what you’re viewing. Apparently they already have prototype software that uses the built-in microphone in a computer and listens to sounds, recording a few seconds, then analyzing them. [via Technology Review]

Fascinating stuff. I’m just wondering how the computer algorithm is going to match up so much stuff. [My hypothesis, wavelets, is a bit beyond the scope of this website.]