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.

And watch for new developments in 2012.

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.

Escort demonstrated the PASSPORT IQ at the Lunch at PIero’s innovator and press event during CES. Some very clever engineering enabled them to combine radar detector with full GPS NAV in a single, highly attractive device. With 5″ full-color touchscreen, 3D maps, voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, over speed limit alerts, red light / speed camera alerts, speed trap warnings and full radar and laser gun alerts, the all-new PASSPORT iQ™ establishes the standard for protecting consumers from unwanted tickets and guiding them safely to their destination. www.escortinc.#mce_temp_url#com.

It’s been ten years since USB 2.0 came on the scene. Now VIA Labs, the only company in the world to have a complete USB 3.0 solution with host, hub and device controller products, is quickly setting industry standards.    At the Lunch at Piero’s innovator and press event during CES, VIA Labs explained how today’s massive high def video, high megapixel pictures and other rich huge content are commonplace on cameras and other devices, making it important to have a USB 3.0 host controller in the first place to enable data to flow swiftly and make full use of USB 3.0 devices. And unlike USB 2.0, USB 3.0 is capable of simultaneous transmitting and receiving. VIA Labs makes it faster and better. www.via-labs.com

Brite-view, a media streaming and media player company introduced its wireless transmission products including Air Sync HD is a wireless transmission product that can transmit 66 feet or 1080i content 100 feet. HDelight can wirelessly transmit uncompressed 1080p digital content 30 feet from PC to TV with no latency. Demonstrating these products at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES, brite-view showed that with the built-in loop-through connection, it is possible to connect the Air SyncHD transmitter to the HDTV and HD cable DVR in the living room via HDMI cables, and watch exactly the same cable channels and TV shows on your bedroom HDTV connected to the Air SyncHD receiver.
Professional news gathering crews will also love the benefits of latency-free wireless video transmission when out in the field shooting news stories away from their mobile video trucks.  www.brite-view.com

Connect, share, work and play with D-Link. At the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES, D-Link showed how you can securely share and store all digital media and never lose media if a hard drive fails. Turn your home into the hottest spot for gaming with a lag-free experience. With D-Link’s simple-to-install network cameras, see what’s going on inside and outside of your home in real time. You even can make your home the hottest spot for online entertainment: watch what you want, when you want, wherever you want. And D-Link’s home networking products turn your home office into the new hot spot for work productivity. www.d-link.com