The new Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV chip, set for release in 2010 will allow mobile phones to feature up to 20-megapixel cameras and record/playback video at 1080p HD resolution.  Currently the furthest manufacturer’s have ventured into with camera technology is 12-megapixels – Samsung with the Pixon12 and Sony Ericsson Satio. Mobile phones such as the Samsung Omnia HD and the HTC Touch HD (1&2) also boast HD video recording and playback but none are yet to provide recording at 1080p.

The Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV chip will also be able to take several pictures per second, will allow mobiles to have HDMI slots, even larger expandable memory slots and advanced sound output.

This is just one of many tantalizing teasers of future technology to hit and affect the world of mobile phones and to steal a popular network slogan…..The Future’s bright!

Advertising online becomes more popular as we move further into the 21^st century. With this in mind, Google Executives announced in the first three quarter of this year, that they experienced a very strong growth in their display advertising.

Next year Google is going to continue to invest deeply in advertising initiatives, involving online video and web able mobile phones. A reporter spoke with investors and analysts at the start of the week – Google said they are pushing all their efforts to increase their ad revenue from display ads, i.e. graphical images, videos and interactive web animations.

Google’s Director of online sales and operations, Tom Pickett said ’the company sold out 90 percent of the ad inventory for the homepage of YouTube, Google’s video website, in the third quarter’

Google is the world’s number 1 search engine; unfortunately no financial updates are available for the current quarter. Past figures show that Google revenue totals up to $22 billion in 2008, this comes from display ads.

Over the last few months Google have made a number of important business acquisitions, selling display ads as it increases its revenue from text ads that appear alongside its search results.

Google brought an ad serving company called DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in 2008. Then just last month they announced plans to acquire AdMob for the sum of $750. This company serves adverts to smartphones or the very famous Apple Inc’s iPhone.

Google have lots planned for 2010 and will no doubt continue to grow their revenue, especially as they are entering the mobile phone manufacturing world. A new product from Google is an advertising tool which allows advertisers to create their own display ads.

The future looks bright!

A YouTube video leads to a Hollywood contract!

A Uruguay movie producer from a small business uploaded a short film to YouTube back in November 2009! His film caught the eye of some Hollywood directors and has now been offered a £18.6million contract to make a big Hollywood film.

Have a look at this small clip from the video:

The movie is going to be sponsored by a film director called Sam Raimi, whose films include Spiderman and Evil Dead!

The short-film called ‘Panic Attack’ (”Ataque de Panico!”) features massive robots taking over and destroying the capital of Uruguay – Montevideo.

It has had more than 1.5 million views so far on YouTube and for a 4 minute and 48 second long film that is pretty good going.

The film producer told a BBC reporter ‘”I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,”

“It was amazing, we were all shocked.” He said!

“If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it,” he added.

The Sci-fi film is to be shot in the producer’s country Uruguay and to also Argentina – he wants to start a fresh and create a real amazing story.

Most watched YouTube video
YouTube last month announced their most watched video of 2009 – the winner was the Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle! She reached a massive 120 million views worldwide. The video showed her debut show, with amazing reactions from the judges.

Go YouTube!

News has it, Google are seeking to manufacture and sell their own mobile phones!

It was inevitable that Google would at some stage manufacture and sell their own mobile phones! At present Google have the Android smartphone operating system, which was created a few years ago. It’s didn’t take long for Google to move into the hardware area, and let’s face it this move is likely to shake up the whole of the mobile market.

Google has designed a mobile phone and it plans to sell directly to consumers as soon as next year, no mention of involving third parties.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, Google is “sharing a new device running its Android operating system with employees to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities.”

The phone is called the ‘Nexus One’, it has been designed by Google and produced by HTC – the phone will be sold online and customers will have to subscribe to a mobile service separately.

The reason for this move is due to Google’s disappointment with Android results so far. Many popular mobile phone manufactures including Samsung and LG have been involved in pushing Google’s Android, but they still didn’t overtake Apple’s share in the mobile market!

A user complaint triggered a re-think of the Nokia Ovi Store!

For those of you who don’t know the Nokia Ovi Store allows you to access the latest in free and premium applications, including games, videos, ringtones, productivity tools and even more – it works the same way as the Apple application store.
News has it Nokia is already falling behind when it comes to the smartphone world, with Apple and BlackBerry marching well ahead with their place in the hardware market. Nokia users have been experiencing problems with the Ovi store…

The head of products for Nokia’ media group, spoke out about the complaints it was receiving from annoyed Nokia customers ‘We have screens up in our offices running the Twitter feeds all day long,’ he said. ‘It’s like sitting there and getting punched in the face. But when we make improvements we see the impact instantly.’

From customer feedback, Nokia have stated in the second quarter of 2010, there will be a re-vamp, in which the Ovi Store sees an improved payment system and looks to improve the user interface, as well as working on a faster response time.

We will update you when we here more on this story.