Infographics can tell us a lot in simple terms.  This infographic from Guohe Ad, a mobile advertising management platform, shows how the largest mobile market in the world, China, is consuming iOS and Android apps.

Here are some of the discoveries in the survey:  It’s no surprise that Apple had a head start on app marketing in China by accepting China’s RMB currency as payment early on.  Since the iPhone is more expensive, it attracts a more affluent user who purchases apps and pays for the privilege of the apps being ad-free. But only 13 percent of Android users would rather buy an app that is ad-free than get a free app that is supported through inserted ads.

You’ll find a lot of interesting points in this infographic as well as the study it is based on, which can be found here.

Pat Meier-Johnson and Russ Johnson team up for The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show

After 25 years of hosting Lunch at Piero’s exclusively for the press, we are now taking tech and travel directly to consumers, travel trade and the media with the brand new Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show March 2 – 4, 2012 at the Jacob Javits Center, Booth 271.  Amidst 500 exhibitors representing 150 countries, ours is the first and only booth totally dedicated to cool mobile devices, photo gear, apps and new technologies designed to make travel easier, safer and more fun.

Come join Pat Meier-Johnson and Russ Johnson and our great exhibitors including:

Aurasma is the world’s leading augmented reality platform that brings any destination to the palm of your hand:  the real world meets the virtual world. www.aurasma.com

HP is the world’s largest technology company, offering innovative computing products from sleek notebooks to travel-ready accessories for business and leisure travelers alike. www.hp.com

Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future is an introduction to a career in travel, available as an e-book for students or on DVD for schools.  www.learntravelandtourism.com

With Looxcie, the first handsfree wear-and-share video cam, travelers can stream live to friends anytime from any location or share clips instantly to social networks. www.looxcie.com

SugarSync is a free service ideal for travelers that enables you to access, sync and share your files across all your computers and devices from anywhere. www.sugarsync.com

TourWrist enables travelers to shoot, view and share their 360º vacation panos with the free TourWrist iOS app and helps travel professionals re-purpose their virtual tour panoramic images on www.TourWrist.com for free.

Whether traveling for business or pleasure, ZAGG helps you stay connected with creative device accessories that protect, personalize, and enhance the mobile experience.  www.zagg.com

2ReturnMe, Lost Item Recovery System. Place tags or labels on anything you want back. Finder dials an 800# enters the PIN and is connected directly to you. www.2ReturnMe.com

And look for us next year at the LA Times Travel Show and the New York Times Travel Show.

Connected Traveler Technology Showcase

Our newest event will take place tomorrow in San Francisco.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase, a media-only showcase of the latest travel tech products, apps and services will feature demonstrations by developers of tech-savvy apps, gadgets, and technologies.  Open to international travel reporters and San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s technology, feature, business and broadcast media, The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase and takes place during the week of Pow Wow, the travel industry’s premier international conference in North America.

We realized that there are plenty of technology trade shows that cater to tech media, but none bring the wealth of products and innovative technologies to travel press. The travel press includes a large audience of reporters who don’t go to tech trade shows but who are always in search of information that can improve their readers’ travel experience.

Notebooks, tablets, apps, GPS devices, cameras, mobile storage, and cloud-based solutions, are becoming an integral part of most road warriors’ lives.  In addition to the necessities, there are many products that make traveling safer, more enjoyable and create smarter travelers.

Sponsors include:  GE Digital Cameras, Gogobot, GoSmart, HP,  INRIX Traffic, Ken Kobré Photography-The Lightscoop, Line2, Liquid Image, Mobile Monitor Technologies, Plantronics, Proposal Software, Schedulicity, SpotWorld, SugarSync, TeleNav, Traxxit Technologies, Verizon Wireless, Visual Travel Tours, VIA, and Western Digital.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is a tabletop demo event based on 20+ years of similar successful media events and product showcases,  during Siggraph, and E3 and Lunch at Piero’s during COMDEX and CES.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is open only for working travel and technology writers.  Video will be featured at www.patmeier.com and www.connectedtraveler.com after the show.  For more information, please visit: www.patmeier.com/connectedtravelershow.html or call +1415.389.1700.

Future Connected Traveler events will be scheduled for Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York.

Here it is, more than a month at CES and the Lunch at Piero’s sponsor hits just keep on coming.  Here’s a nice story on ABC News Michael Ferrara, aka the TechnoDad, who highlights a bunch of Lunch at Piero’s sponsors on ABC News including eeColor, Hannspree, AOC, and Escort.

Acquire and download your promotional gift cards to Android and iPhone (and soon Blackberry) phones using JunoWallet.  You can display and store gift cards on your phone and redeem your gift cards easily and securely.  Check into a venue using FourSquare or JunoWallet and leave a free gift for friends while earning points yourself.    A valuable viral tool for vendors, JunoWallet is forming an ecosystem of redeemable cards ranging from online retailers to restaurants and from health providers to travel.. www.junowallet.com

Palo Alto Audio Design demonstrated several audio products: Cubik, a computer speaker system for Mac or PC, uses cutting edge technology that manages sound through digital USB streaming and with a proprietary digital audio amplifier. The result is lossless streaming which provides crystal clear sound and a high dynamic range. The unique, patent-pending design of the Cubik, its low footprint and big sound caught the attention of many of the reporters at Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES 2011. The company also presented Musik, their entry level speaker system. Musik does not require any external power source. Power and sound are delivered through USB resulting in a highly mobile quality speaker system.  For more information visit www.paloaltoaudio.com

VIA presented the next step in its Nano processor line which initially attracted such major brand names as Lenovo. The new VIA Nano X2 dual-core processor expands VIA’s reach into the desktop, notebook and further into the embedded market.

VIA also answers the particular challenge of delivering high quality video over separate simultaneous streams to multiple displays.  The VIA eH1 graphics card is particularly suited for embedded developers with multi-display projects requiring 1080p HD video with the kind of longevity that embedded designs require.

The VIA Nano X2 and the VIA eH1 multi-display DX 10.1 graphics card were demonstrated at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES.

For more information see www.via.com.tw

VoiceDJ from Speak With Me, Inc. is an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad* application that allows users to control their mobile music library entirely with their voice. VoiceDJ is built on Speak With Me’s device-based technology platform, which delivers 99 percent accuracy and decreases voice recognition response time from seconds to milliseconds, providing the fastest, most accurate voice-activated app available. VoiceDJ, which was demonstrated to reporters at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES, also recognizes nearly 1 million words from a person’s vocabulary and can easily handle music libraries with hundreds of thousands of entries. And unlike most other voice solutions, VoiceDJ doesn’t need an Internet connection to function so users can enjoy the app anytime, anywhere and spontaneously change songs, artists, albums or genres as the mood strikes. Watch for many more applications with this remarkable voice recognition technology.  www.speakwithme.com

Phone Halo is an App that works with the Cobra PhoneTag and prevents you from losing your valuables. Just on the heels of winning the Popular Mechanics Editors Choice Award during CES 2011, Phone Halo and the Cobra PhoneTag were showcased at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event.
Phone Halo does three things to protect your items
Recover: When the Bluetooth disconnects, Phone Halo records the GPS coordinates to pinpoints the item’s last known location on a Google map and can send the map to your contact list.
Locate: Phone Halo acts as a two-way finder by beeping your belongings at the press of a button.
Protect: Phone Halo wirelessly tethers your phone and item. If the items become separated, both can ring to remind you something is being left behind and the application locks your phone. www.phonehalo.com