July 2008
JulyJul 31 Thursday 08
Demand in the Digital Set-Top Box Market
In the consumer electronics sector, the digital set-top box market has been one of the fastest growing market segments over the past decade, and 2007 was no exception, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
Strong demand from Free-to-Air satellite service, …
Sony, Microsoft and Samsung Embrace Video
New online video applications, plus established offerings like YouTube and the BBC iPlayer, are no longer confined to PC users, according to the latest market study by Strategy Analytics.
A wave of recent announcements from major players such as Sony, Microsoft and …
Consumers Crave a Usable Remote Control
Households in the U.S. are increasingly looking to the remote control as their link to easing the complexity of control and search among the growing number of disparate consumer electronic systems in their homes, according to a new market study.
A new report from Parks …
JulyJul 28 Monday 08
High Growth Consumer Electronics in India
Last year, India's Consumer Electronics (CE) market grew by more than 30 percent to reach $3.8 billion and will continue to increase. According to a market study by Futuresource Consulting, the market value is on track to quadruple in the space of five years, to reach …
Open-Source WebKit Adoption on the Rise
As consumers increasingly surf the Web on their mobile phones, handset vendors are looking toward open-source browsers such as WebKit -- the browser engine at the heart of the iPhone's Safari browser.
However, despite growing interest in WebKit and Gecko (the engine for …
JulyJul 27 Sunday 08
Engagement Framework Aligns with Buying
Marketers need an intuitive framework that allows them to move away from treating customers as generic segments to focusing on an individual's buying process, according to the latest market study by Forrester Research.
Forrester's assessment says that the framework must …
JulyJul 26 Saturday 08
PC Growth Boosted by Portable Adoption
Worldwide PC shipments continued to grow at a healthy pace in the second quarter of 2008 (2Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.
Shipments were up 15.3 percent from a year ago -- slightly more than second quarter projections and first quarter growth of …
New NFC-Based Proximity Mobile Payment
Eighty-six percent of industry stakeholders believe Near Field Communication (NFC) based proximity payments will be adopted, and it will happen with a collaboration model, bringing together banks, mobile operators, merchants, handset manufacturers and other service …
JulyJul 25 Friday 08
Wireless USB Will Find Its Mojo, Eventually
Wireless technologies can have very different adoption cycles. As an example, wireless USB (WUSB) is currently hampered by the high price of the underlying UWB silicon, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
This is expected to limit its appeal until prices …
Cisco Edge Quest Game Champ Wins $10K
Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico doesn't usually come to mind when most online gamers think of where to engage in their favorite pastime. That may very well change, given today's announcement.
Etvino Rogelio Medina has won the Cisco EDGE QUEST Tournament of Aces, receiving a …
Consumers Accepting of Online Video Ads
Driven by increased online video adoption, advertising spend continues to move online. As more American consumers go online to stream or download video content, the number of advertising-subsidized online video services is also growing.
With all these new advertising …
JulyJul 24 Thursday 08
Rationale for Subscriber Data Management
Infonetics Research predicts that mobile and wireline operators around the world will invest in subscriber data management (SDM) software and integration services to help them roll out new services to customers, reduce the cost of rolling out these new services, and …
JulyJul 23 Wednesday 08
Online Ad Spend Exceeds TV-Radio-Movies
American advertisers are cutting back. Spending on U.S. advertising and marketing will grow 3.9 percent in 2008 to reach $412.4 billion -- with the advertising portion reaching $249.1 billion, according to a market study by Outsell, Inc.
Reflecting the overall economic …
No End in Sight for the Online Video Upside
Are we there yet? Apparent not, the video growth journey continues. ComScore released May 2008 data from their Video Metrix service, reporting that U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 45 percent …
JulyJul 22 Tuesday 08
Human Network Effect Reaches Enterprise
The Human Network Effect of engaging online communities in the consumer world has become a huge success, and now a growing number of enterprises are seeing internal demand, according to the latest market study by ABI Research.
To enable such communication in a business …
Growth of Customer-Specific TV Advertising
Are mass-media adverts obsolete? TV advertising is being impacted by the Internet and by mobile services that provide highly personalized content delivery, according to a new market study by In-Stat.
No longer does "one ad fit all" viewers -- and now the big trend is for …
JulyJul 20 Sunday 08
U.S. Will Follow Digital PC-TV Tuner Growth
The adoption of digital PC-TV Tuners will accelerate in Europe as Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) services continue to expand there. Moreover, Asia, China and India will present strong growth opportunities, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
North America is …
Converged IPTV Will Help Telcos Compete
The opportunity for converged (multi-platform) IPTV is explored in MRG's new IPTV infrastructure and service market study -- providing a new road-map for IPTV operators to use in competing with Cable, Satellite and even Internet Video.
By categorizing multi-platform …
JulyJul 18 Friday 08
Cable Love-Hate for Set Top Box Investment
According to ABI Research, faced with stiff competition in the cable market and from telcos vying for TV viewers, traditionally risk-averse cable operators are now bipolar -- supporting a road-map that requires deployment of new advanced Set-Top Boxes (STB), while also …
Middle East & North African Pay TV Upside
Approximately 61 percent of Middle East and North African (MENA) TV homes currently have a multichannel TV service, according to the latest market study by Informa Telecoms & Media.
Their report forecasts that by 2013 a further 14 million homes will have signed up to a …