November 2008
NovemberNov 29 Saturday 08
Predicting Prosumer Mash-Up of DTT Video
The global market for set-top boxes will grow gradually over the next few years, then will peak at around 110 million shipments in 2012, according to the latest market study by ABI Research.
Thereafter STB unit volumes for all platforms -- Digital Terrestrial Television …
Will the WiMAX Providers Find Their Mojo?
WiMAX may be a tale of two markets -- one being WiMAX as an emerging technology gaining momentum, and the other being the larger converging broadband market, where rival mobile broadband system HSDPA and the acceleration of LTE threatens the opportunity for WiMAX in …
Pay-TV Competition on the Game Consoles
Market study findings from research consultancy TDG predicts that console-affiliated media portals such as Microsoft's Xbox LIVE and Sony's PlayStation Network will soon become formidable competitors to incumbent Pay-TV services.
Leveraging broadband-enabled game …
More Concern about Limited IPTV Adoption
Strong anticipated growth may result in 57 million IPTV homes by 2013 -- or triple the end-2008 figure, according to a new market study by Informa Telecoms & Media.
Despite this acceleration, only 4 percent of the world's remaining pay-TV households are forecast to …
Customer Care Jobs Return Home to U.S.
A new IDC market study confirms that "homeshoring" (the antonym to offshoring) will remain an attractive option for U.S. service providers and their employees, particularly as the global economy slips into what could be a deep and protracted recession.
"Current economic …
NovemberNov 26 Wednesday 08
South Korea and Japan Still Lead Mobile TV
Revenues from mobile TV services will generate $1.5 billion in 2008, rising to over $10 billion in 2013. At present the revenues are predominantly from subscription fees, but this is expected to change over time as the advertising business model starts to gain …
NovemberNov 25 Tuesday 08
IT Spending Decline in U.S. Hits Hardware
Worldwide spending on information technology (IT) products and services will slow significantly in 2009 as a direct result of the global financial crisis that began in September 2008.
According to a revised forecast from IDC, worldwide IT spending will grow 2.6 percent …
Highest Text Messaging in El Paso, Texas
Where is the text messaging capital of the U.S. mobile market? El Paso, Texas is the top U.S. city for mobile phone text messaging, according to the latest market study by Scarborough Research.
Fifty-seven percent of cell phone subscribers age 18+ in El Paso text …
NovemberNov 22 Saturday 08
Smartphone Upside for Advertising Revenue
Has the gloomy economic outlook got you down? One of the undisputed bright spots in 2008 has been the continued rapid growth of web usage on mobile phones.
While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been …
Profitable Personalized Video Advertising
The telco television headend equipment market is expected to grow substantially over the next five years, according to the latest study by In-Stat.
This growth, driven by the expansion of video channels, the introduction of high-definition (HD) content, and the continued …
NovemberNov 21 Friday 08
Travel still Top Online Transaction Category
Nielsen Online announced that 78 percent of adult U.S. online consumers made a purchase over the Web within the previous six months.
The number one online transaction category was travel, with 38 percent of adult online consumers making at least one travel purchase on …
Control Your Digital Home Via a Web Page
Are you confused by your digital home management interface? Help is on the way. The rise of IP-enabled consumer electronics (CE) products is fueling increasing demand for browsers and web-based user interfaces in these complex devices.
ABI Research expects the number of …
NovemberNov 20 Thursday 08
Greater Challenge than Mobile Phone Sales
While the cellphone industry has generally been unaffected by economic ups and downs, this recession (depression, etc.) may well be very different, according to the latest market assessment by In-Stat.
The current economic slowdown is more widespread and deeper than ever …
Mobile Machine-to-Machine Comms Outlook
Continued strong growth in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications markets will see about 95 million cellular M2M modules shipping in 2013, according to the latest ABI Research market study.
Regarding shipments to the three main market segments -- telematics, telemetry, …
NovemberNov 19 Wednesday 08
North American IPTV May Still Catch-Up
Multimedia Research Group's (MRG) latest IPTV Global Forecast shows that global IPTV subscribers will grow from 20.4 million IPTV subscribers in 2008 to 89.6 million in 2012.
To drive this growth, IPTV Operators worldwide are expected to continue investing in improved …
NovemberNov 18 Tuesday 08
PC Microprocessor Upside and Downside
Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the third calendar quarter of 2008 (3Q08) reached record levels again, according to the latest market study by IDC.
However, the outlook for the processor market in 4Q08 and 2009 is unsure.
Worldwide PC processor unit shipments …
Global Mobile Messaging Market Forecast
With the global economy showing signs of a deep recession, mobile phone usage will continue to escalate, regardless.
In a recent market study by ABI Research, mobile messaging services revenues are forecast to grow from $151 billion in 2008 to greater than $212 billion …
NovemberNov 16 Sunday 08
Digital Video Interface Standards Adoption
Digital visual interface (DVI) and high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) are related high-bandwidth, unidirectional, uncompressed digital interface standards.
According the the latest In-Stat market study, 2008 has brought continuation of trends that have developed …
Mobile Location-Based Social Networking
According to ABI Research, mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a driver for the adoption of location-based services -- as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging.
Manipulation of Mobile Broadband Usage
The tremendous growth of mobile broadband usage, with annual growth rates of 200 percent in some parts of North America and upwards of 800 percent in parts of Europe, could create future challenges for mobile service providers.
However, a new market study from Parks …