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JanuaryJan 8 Thursday 09
New Fixed and Mobile Service Convergence
The 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held in Las Vegas this week. The annual trade show event features more than 2,700 consumer technology exhibitors in 30 product categories. Given the current state of the global networked economy, the show will …
JanuaryJan 6 Tuesday 09
Trillion Dollar Mobile Sector Continues Growth
Despite turmoil in world financial markets over the last year, the trillion dollar mobile industry continues to confound expectations with accelerating growth, according to a new market study by Portio Research.
Their new report reveals that over half the world now uses …
JanuaryJan 4 Sunday 09
U.S. Switch to Digital TV Reduces Coverage
The switchover to digital television (DTV) broadcast transmissions will reduce coverage, and therefore viewers, within many markets of the United States. People are unaware of the consequences of this transition -- including most TV advertisers.
The Federal …
JanuaryJan 3 Saturday 09
Why Most Vendors are Not Trusted Advisers
Marketing and sales executives in technology firms aspire to develop a meaningful relationship with the CIOs in their target enterprise accounts. But, according to a Forrester Research market study, most CIOs believe technology firms remain "just another vendor to deal …
JanuaryJan 1 Thursday 09
Main Source of Telecom Growth Hits a Wall
The mobile phone market will experience a significant downturn in shipments in 2009. According to IDC, total mobile phone volumes will be 1.9 percent lower in 2009 than 2008 levels, the first downturn in annual shipment volumes since 2001 -- when shipments declined 2.3 …
IPTV and Switched Digital Video Slowdown
The Internet protocol television (IPTV) and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market increased 6 percent sequentially in 3Q08 to $1.4 billion, according to a market study by Infonetics Research.
In its latest report, Infonetics lowered its long-term IPTV and SDV …
DecemberDec 30 Tuesday 08
Global Subscriber Data Management Upside
According to an Infonetics Research market study, the worldwide subscriber data management (SDM) software and integration services market will end 2008 up 21 percent, reaching $128 million.
According to their report, updated recently to reflect changing global economic …
DecemberDec 28 Sunday 08
Evolving Market for Mobile Media Devices
The processor vendors supplying semiconductors for ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) are playing a pivotal role in how this market is shaping up. The family of X86-based processors are well entrenched in the PC world and ARM-based processors are well entrenched in the mobile …
Global Online Video Viewership, by Country
The total number of online video viewers will grow by more than two-thirds to 941 million in 2013, from 563 million in 2008, according to the latest market study by ABI Research.
The 2013 estimate represents just over one-half of the 1.8 billion consumers expected to use …
DecemberDec 26 Friday 08
Creative Apps for Service Delivery Platforms
Based upon an expected 28 percent increase in 2008, the worldwide broadband service delivery platform (SDP) software and integration services market is forecast by Infonetics Research to top $3.5 billion in 2011.
Mobile and fixed line service providers are deploying …
DecemberDec 24 Wednesday 08
Managed Services will Grow in Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) IT services market is expected to remain healthy and grow to $49.4 billion in 2009 -- despite IDC's recent downward adjustment of the region's overall IT spending forecast.
The optimistic outlook is driven primarily by continued demand …
Peer-Group Influence Drives Online Retail
According to Nielsen Online, 81 percent of online shoppers have read product or retailer reviews by other customers when doing their holiday shopping this year. Customer reviews are an important research tool for online consumers, with 71 percent agreeing that reviews …
DecemberDec 22 Monday 08
Mobiles Grow in Asia-Pac, Africa and LatAm
The global mobile phone market revenues will top $1.03 trillion by 2013, when the number of subscriptions worldwide will have risen to more than 5.3 billion, according to a market study by Informa Telecoms & Media.
From end-2007 to end-2013, the global mobile market will …
OTT Video Moving Soon to the TV Screen
While today's consumer is most likely to watch online video on their PC screen -- either desktop or portable -- over time more and more consumers will watch over-the-top (OTT) video delivered to the living room, according a new study from ABI Research.
This continued …
DecemberDec 21 Sunday 08
The Whole Truth about Online Video Usage
There's still much to learn about the ongoing evolution of online video usage. As an example, Americans have embraced streaming video, often at the expense of video downloading.
A market study by Ipsos found that 57 percent of U.S. Internet users 12 years of age and …
How Digital Media Disrupted All Advertising
Advertising spending began contracting in early 2008, well before the financial crisis unfolded in the fall. Among traditional media, television is predicted to fare better than newspapers, magazines and radio.
National media will do better than local, but national ad …
DecemberDec 19 Friday 08
Social Net Usage Pattern on Mobile Phones
Consumers using social networks via their mobile phones today are mainly checking messages, status updates and comments of friends rather than posting photos or comments themselves, according to a market study by ABI Research.
However, this usage pattern is changing as …
DecemberDec 18 Thursday 08
Demand for Personal Computers to Slow
As the economic crisis continues to evolve, demand for personal computers is expected to slow quickly. IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to grow just 3.8 percent in 2009 with shipment value falling by 5.3 percent.
This is considerably slower than second quarter …
U.S. DVD Video Market in a Transformation
The U.S. Home Video market is in the process of transformation, with its supply chain gearing up for change, according to a market study by Futuresource Consulting.
"U.S. consumer demand for SD DVD and High Definition discs is projected to fall by a small amount this …
DecemberDec 17 Wednesday 08
Profiting from Mobile Phone Memory Cards
Although cellular handset accessories such as chargers and batteries ship far more units in what is a $58 billion industry today, memory cards provide the greatest revenue of all mobile phone add-ons, according to a market study by ABI Research.
Driven by the photo, …