Author Archive for Jason Ary

By day, Jason is an Emerging Media Manager who specializes in mobile and social media strategies, currently for the pharmaceutical world. Jason's experience includes large-scale and industry-first iPhone applications, mobile websites, You-Tube based social media campaigns and numerous other online and emerging media projects. By night, Jason is an avid researcher of everything mobile and gaming-related, and can often be found online via his PS3 dominating noobs in the likes of COD: Modern Warfare 2, NCAA FB and Bad Company 2.

Hulu and the Failure of Subscription-Based iPad Applications

Hulu and the Failure of Subscription-Based iPad Applications

As I skimmed the iPad app store the other night, the one app that struck me most (besides Flipboard) was one that actually set way, way down at #55.  It was the highly-touted Hulu + app, possibly one of the most hoped-for and touted apps by the iPad crowd. The price was set at $9.99.  [...]

Top 5 Technologies Needed in Smartphones

Top 5 Technologies Needed in Smartphones

As iPhone, Droid, Blackberry and Palm continue to push smartphone development at an exponential pace, there continues to be glaring holes of opportunity in these devices that now occupy over 42% of American households. The rapid explosion in applications have pushed smartphones past the phone frontier, why we even call them phones at all anymore [...]