October 2007
OctoberOct 30 Tuesday 07
Top 10 Mobile Handsets Gain Lion's Share
The latest Strategy Analytics data from its ProductTRAX program projected that nearly 1.1 million units were delivered to U.S. consumers through the combined AT&T and Apple outlets during Q3, totaling 1.325 million units since the iPhone was launched in late Q2.
"The …
OctoberOct 29 Monday 07
Critical Mass for Next-Generation Networks
While next-generation networks (NGNs) promise rich applications that will eventually offset the decline in voice revenue, most carriers must support IP as well as their legacy networking technologies.
Among service providers, business success is often tied to how fast …
OctoberOct 21 Sunday 07
Hiatus -- Back in One Week
Digital Lifescapes will be back in one week, with new insights and commentary on the global networked economy.
OctoberOct 19 Friday 07
Mobile Enterprise Apps: Viva La Difference!
Rodney Dangerfield still gets no respect -- that's no longer true for the wireless enterprise subscriber. Why? ABI Research survey results have confirmed that North American business customers spend 23 percent more on mobile services than consumers do.
But until now, …
OctoberOct 18 Thursday 07
Predicting the Future of Mobile Broadband
Wireless broadband market penetration expectations are on the rise, once again. Mobile broadband will generate more than $400 billion in service revenues in 2012, according to a new strategic report from Informa Telecoms & Media.
"Mobile broadband will represent close to …
OctoberOct 17 Wednesday 07
Video Growth for Portable Multimedia Players
Worldwide shipments of video portable multimedia players (PMPs) will grow at an annualized rate of 30 percent over the next five years, reaching 132 million units in 2011, according to Parks Associates.
MP3 player manufacturers will drive growth through their desire to …
OctoberOct 16 Tuesday 07
Internet Video Market has Very Broad Appeal
Change used to move relatively slowly in the entertainment business. That was, until the whole notion of a mass-market for television became null and void.
First it was music production and distribution and now it's video. In this rapidly evolving market, consumers are …
OctoberOct 13 Saturday 07
TelecomTV: Online Video Business Models
Video: BT's Director of Portfolio Innovation describes the unknown.
Flat Panel TV Market Penetration on the Rise
Consumers will spend more than $100 billion worldwide on flat panel TVs (FPTV) during 2007, according to the latest market study.
Strategy Analytics predicts that sales of flat panel LCD and plasma TVs will reach 73.7 million units worldwide, generating retail revenues …
A Quest for the Ultimate Set-Top-Box Device
Most people's relationship with their pay-TV service starts and ends with the remote-control device associated with the box that connects to their television set. Clearly, it's a key part of the overall user experience.
As revenue from traditional television set-top box …
OctoberOct 11 Thursday 07
Lazy Mass-Market Thinking Limits Mobile TV
Most wireless communications industry analysts report that the full potential of mobile TV services has not been realized. The apparent lack of mainstream consumer interest is the most mentioned challenge that's been reported in market surveys.
As recently as 2001, some …
Online Search is a Truly Global Phenomenon
If you're still wondering why the impact from the shrinking broadcast television audience threatens the advertising industry's status quo, then perhaps the following research may help. Apparently, consumer attention is increasingly being directed elsewhere.
ComScore …
Segmenting Participation in Social Computing
Why do consumers gravitate to Web 2.0 social computing activity, and what keeps them engaged? The answer to this question is somewhat complicated, because it really depends on how you segment the market.
To better understand social computing adoption, Forrester Research …
OctoberOct 10 Wednesday 07
Music Recording Industry is in Total Upheaval
According to a StrategyEye report, we are now way beyond the tipping-point for upheaval within the traditional music recording industry. In fact, the primary value proposition of a legacy record label seems to have totally capsized and sank.
Apparently, the rock band …
OctoberOct 9 Tuesday 07
IPTV Advertising Models Need Imagination
As deployments of Telco pay-TV services accelerate around the globe, new questions are being raised about applying the legacy metric of merely measuring viewer and service subscriber counts to determine appropriate advertising fees.
According to a Bloomberg News report, …
Digital TV is Creating a New Product Category
The real-time broadcast MPEG encoder market is growing as new digital TV providers and TV channels are launched and HD content grows, according to a market study by In-Stat.
There is also a large shift taking place, as the H.264 codec standard is replacing MPEG-2 as the …
OctoberOct 8 Monday 07
Competition Drives Unlicensed Mobile Access
The worldwide fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) market -- including UMA network controllers, multi-access convergence gateways, and dual mode cellular/Wi-Fi phones -- is forecast by Infonetics Research to soar to $46.3 billion in 2010.
The report entitled "FMC Equipment, …
Segmenting Mobile Subs Most Likely to Churn
According to a recent In-Stat survey, levels of customer satisfaction with wireless carriers can clearly be drawn across age and ethnic boundaries.
Older Americans are most satisfied with their wireless providers according to In-Stat's 2007 Consumer Mobility Survey. More …
OctoberOct 6 Saturday 07
TelecomTV: Mobile Innovation Program
Video: GSM Association describes new mobile innovation programme.
OctoberOct 5 Friday 07
New Demand for Portable Navigation Devices
Greater public awareness, lower entry price points, more sophisticated features, and additional channels of distribution are all key trends contributing to the surge in demand for consumer navigation devices.
Portable navigation devices (PNDs) remain the most popular …