April 2008
AprilApr 30 Wednesday 08
Traditional Wide-Area Data has Flat Growth
In 2008, U.S. Wide Area Network (WAN) wireline data services are projected to see an overall increase of 2 percent from 2007, with the enterprise segment generating 59 percent of revenues, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
Looking forward, moderate growth …
Home Networking Solutions on the Rise
Spring is in the air, and digital home technologies are blossoming. Home networking penetration worldwide will grow nearly 50 percent from 2006 to 2008, according to the latest market study by Parks Associates.
Parks study finds that households with data networking …
Mobile Phone Market Shipment Downturn
The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an expected sequential downturn in shipments following a busy holiday quarter.
According to IDC, vendors shipped a total of 291.6 million units during the first quarter of 2008 (1Q08), down 11.6 percent from the 330.8 million …
AprilApr 28 Monday 08
Linux OS Solution Growth on Mobile Devices
Linux, which has been much maligned by Symbian and Microsoft as a non-starter in the handset operating system market, is set to see strong growth as issues with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated.
The growing momentum behind the LiMo …
Digital TV Platform and On-Demand Content
Digital distribution of content is growing rapidly across the globe, driven by continued technological enhancements and content industry support. However, key to its long term success will be the development of strong consumer propositions and business models that …
AprilApr 26 Saturday 08
A Microsoft Yahoo Merger Doesn't Matter
Microsoft's three-month quest to force themselves upon an unwilling Yahoo! has reached a deadline today. But, in the evolving and Darwinian world of the Global Networked Economy -- does a combined Microsoft-Yahoo really matter?
Furthermore, if Yahoo is acquired by …
Mobile Device Management Service Growth
A very complex mobile value chain and a growing business reliance on mobile products have created the need for services that help businesses maximize the value of their mobile investments.
In a recent report from ABI Research, mobile device management (MDM) services are …
AprilApr 25 Friday 08
More than 10 Billion Online Videos Viewed
ComScore released February 2008 data indicating that U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion online videos during the month, representing a 3 percent gain versus January -- despite February being two days shorter -- and a 66 percent gain versus February 2007.
In …
Mobile Advertising Upside Forecast to $5B
Search engine marketing (SEM) is truly pervasive. Just as search became critical on the desktop, search will become increasingly important in the mobile space.
The growth of consumer options to search on-deck and off-deck, SMS, and via branded or white-label search …
AprilApr 24 Thursday 08
San Francisco is Top US Broadband Market
Broadband penetration increased more than 300 percent since 2002 in America, according to the latest analysis from Scarborough Research. In 2002, 12 percent of U.S. adults had a broadband connection in their household.
Now, a little less than half (49 percent) have …
Many Digital Mobile TV Broadcast Standards
Consumers apparently still don't care for mobile TV in the same way that technology vendors do. Moreover, there continues a fragmentation of standards for digital mobile TV broadcasting -- just as we have NTSC, PAL, and SECAM for analog TV -- that appears to be the way …
AprilApr 23 Wednesday 08
Bluetooth Finally Gains Momentum in Asia
What's old is now new again, somewhere in the world of wireless possibilities. While Bluetooth has been in the market for almost a decade, it has not proliferated widely in Asia. In terms of consumer awareness, this region still lags behind others.
However, the picture …
Segmentation of Mobile Media Consumers
M:Metrics recently revealed the demographics and size of the audiences for mobile media. Young males are a rich target for mobile advertisers, as 36 percent of 18 to 34-year-old men accessed mobile media in February.
Men in this age group are also highly receptive to SMS …
AprilApr 22 Tuesday 08
Open-Source Software, Widgets Go Mobile
Open-source software and widgets are going to improve the Web experience on mobile phones. While a large number of phones today still use browsers with very limited web browsing capabilities, many smartphones are incorporating browsers that support the latest …
AprilApr 19 Saturday 08
Consumers Without a Landline on the Rise
Use of cell phones is increasing and traditional landline telephone coverage is decreasing. In fact, one in five U.S. adults do not have a landline -- only 79 percent currently do. One in seven adults now uses only their mobile phone.
Furthermore, while the use of …
IT Vendors Enter the Digital Marketing Era
In its upcoming report on IT vendor marketing and sales investment, and key performance indicators (KPIs), IDC's Executive Advisory Group forecasts a 4 percent increase for the average marketing budget and a 7.9 percent increase for the average sales budget in 2008.
New Breed of Broadband Service Provider
The success of Internet service providers is driving legacy telecom operators to transform their service-layer architectures and business models to extract a bigger share of revenue from the IP services value chain, according to the latest market study by Light Reading.
AprilApr 18 Friday 08
U.S. Mobile Internet Consumer Landscape
ComScore released the results of a study evaluating the behaviors and attitudes of mobile phone subscribers. The findings are based on a survey of more than 2,000 U.S. wireless cell phone users, providing comprehensive insights into consumer satisfaction, factors …
Big Shift in Mobile Phone Technology Base
ABI Research forecasts global GSM subscriber growth to slow from a year-on-year rate of over 22 percent in 2006/07 to 14 percent in 2008/09 -- mainly due to the increased migration of subscribers to UMTS 3G technologies.
UMTS (including HSDPA) experienced a nearly 83 …
Personalization of the Entire IPTV Experience
The total number of households worldwide using telco IPTV services grew from 4.7 million in 2006 to exceed 14 million in 2007, according to a new white paper by Parks Associates.
The white paper analyzes key television services and offers growth strategies and …