October 2008
OctoberOct 31 Friday 08
Growing Appeal of Streaming Online Video
Over the past six months, the popularity of online video services has grown significantly with women and older consumers, helping close the age and gender gap within the online video audience in the U.S. market.
Recent data sourced from Ipsos illustrates the widespread …
Some U.S. Viewers Ready to Abandon TV
Analog broadcast television will come to an end in the United States on February 17, 2009. Although many U.S. viewers subscribe to cable or satellite TV services, apparently 15 percent still use a traditional TV antenna.
A recent ABI Research survey of U.S. terrestrial …
Cable TV Must Prepare for a Mass Migration
According to a Parks Associates market study, cable television could see a mass migration away from its services, if providers do not improve their consistently low satisfaction ratings among current subscribers.
Their new report reveals that subscribers to satellite …
OctoberOct 29 Wednesday 08
How to Add Value in the Connected Lifestyle
The boundary lines between the TV, PC, and mobile screens are blurring with increased broadband and 3G penetration, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
Service providers are being challenged from all sides for influence over the consumer and the content they …
Global Upside for Digital Video Recorders
The long-anticipated DVR boom is finally happening. Equipment prices have fallen rapidly. Operators want their subscribers to take DVRs as they register very highly in consumer satisfaction indexes -- and thus help to ensure loyalty.
DVR competition between operators is …
OctoberOct 28 Tuesday 08
The Road to Wireless 4G has Potholes
In 2008, according to the latest study by In-Stat, the road to wireless 4G became less complex with ultra-mobile broadband (UMB) displaced, narrowing the path to the two remaining technologies -- LTE and WiMAX.
Both 4G technologies, meaning those technologies that are …
Breaking the Myth of the Anti-Social Gamer
Ipsos released research findings from a study examining the growing diversity, consumption patterns and social activity of videogamers. The results of this study -- which included a quantitative overview as well as focus groups and in-home interviews -- were released in …
OctoberOct 26 Sunday 08
Fate is Sealed for the Big Media Dinosaurs
Gannett Company, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, posted a 33 percent decrease in third-quarter profit as print advertising spiraled lower, reflecting an industry-wide malaise that has persisted for three years -- and said it would suspend monthly revenue reports …
More U.S. SMS Messages than Voice Calls
Mobile phone service providers can rejoice. The average mobile phone subscriber in the U.S. sent and received more SMS text messages than mobile telephone calls during Q2 2008, according to Nielsen.
This was the second consecutive quarter in which the average number of …
OctoberOct 25 Saturday 08
Preferred Devices of Digital Nomad Segment
In-Stat conducted a survey of their Technology Adoption Panel to determine what devices road warriors -- defined as those who travel five or more days in a typical month -- travel with, and what interface options they use.
The results from 522 respondents show that these …
Mixed Markets for Worldwide PC Shipments
Worldwide PC shipments struggled to meet expectations in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Worldwide shipments were up 15.8 percent year over year, which was slightly less than projected.
Strong results in EMEA (Europe, …
OctoberOct 24 Friday 08
1M New U.S. Broadband Subs Each Month
Regardless of the current economic environment, broadband services are still in high demand -- attracting millions of new subscribers worldwide each month, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
Over the past 12 months, approximately 80 million new broadband …
Worldwide Virtualization Market Opportunity
According to IDC, worldwide virtualization license shipments in the second quarter of 2008 (2Q08) increased 53 percent year-over-year, compared to a 72 percent year-over-year increase the previous quarter.
The x86 server market led the way with 60 percent year-over-year …
OctoberOct 23 Thursday 08
Virtual Worlds Investment Reach $493 million
According to a Virtual Worlds Management market study, venture capital and media firms have invested more than $148.5 million in twelve virtual worlds-related companies during the third quarter of 2008 -- with participation from many more VC firms and angel investors.
OctoberOct 22 Wednesday 08
Linux in Mobile Devices to Displace Windows
The market for ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) is already complex, and will become more complicated as it grows. The following forecast insight may serve to guide vendors and investors as they negotiate this multifaceted landscape.
According to ABI Research principal analyst …
OctoberOct 21 Tuesday 08
Highest Growth for Pre-Paid Mobile Services
During 2007 and into 2008, the market for pre-paid mobile services has continued to grow more than twice as fast as the post-paid contract market, according to the latest study from Informa Telecoms & Media.
At the end of 2007, there were 2.33 billion prepaid …
OctoberOct 19 Sunday 08
New Device Choices in Mobile Video Market
The entry of a broad range of new mobile multimedia devices -- able to display video -- will have a profound effect on the mobile video market, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.
The reach of new device choices will provide more markets for mobile phone …
Marketer's Quest to Reach the Digital Natives
Marketers need to fully understand the Digital Native segment of the market. Why? They're the future technology savvy consumer of products and services.
eMarketer estimates that this year 95.7 percent of college students -- 17.4 million strong -- will go online at least …
OctoberOct 17 Friday 08
Emergence of Content Depots for Storage
The continued explosion in creation and storage of unstructured data and the need to generate more copies of data for availability, analytics, and archiving will be primary drivers of new storage system developments over the next five years.
The most significant new …
Cable TV Business Transformation Initiatives
Faced with more competition in their Pay-TV business, cable operators worldwide are distracted by the all-digital transition deadlines imposed upon them by governing bodies, the available options for upgrading their network, and the slow migration to an IP-based network …