Towards the finest Smart TV via apps

Leaving aside the otherwise relevant issue of improving TV content, in order to sell more sets, the TV manufacturing industry is imitating the smartphone evolution and is currently undergoing a process of introducing substantial app portfolio options in the form of widgets aimed at considerably improving the much clichéd viewer's experience. 

Sony, Toshiba, LG or Samsung are some of the companies willing to go the extra mile in order to increase their market share. All of them, including other manufacturers, understandably, are trying to establish the standard for the future Smart TV. 

Trying to take a leading role in that game, LG and the Smart TV Alliance initiative are offering answers to involve manufacturers, developers and solution providers by presenting them with a large selection of app options with the purpose of setting a standard for the industry.

Either emulating or not what Google TV, Apple TV and others are doing, the Smart TV Alliance is preparing version 2.0 of their Software Development Kit, which will be readily available to

Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2012

Source : GSMA MWC

Best Mobile App for Consumers

Rovio Entertainment Ltd. for Angry Birds Rio

Best Mobile App for Enterprise

Citrix Systems for Citrix Receiver

Judges’ Choice - Best Overall Mobile App

WhatsApp Inc. for WhatsApp

Most Innovative Mobile App

SwiftKey

Best Mobile Advertising & Marketing Campaign

Brandtone for Carling Black Label "Be the Coach"

Innovation in Mobile Advertising

Poken for the leading CMS for NFC

Mobile Marketing & Advertising Agency of the Year

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Best Enterprise Mobile Service

Fiberlink for MaaS360

Best Consumer Mobile Service

Google for Google Maps for Android

Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers

Turkcell for Turkcell TiklaKonus

Searching for the future e-commerce solution

2012 might very well confirm a drive towards what could amount to be a trending movement where different platforms could converge.

Keywords such as innovation and internationalization are more often becoming part of our vocabulary. The reason for this is that international markets are becoming a necessity, rather than an option, to fill up the gap left by the local options for companies to sell their products and services.

Similar to the convergence of internet, TV and phones into one device, a major