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New Growth Forecast for Mobile Internet Users
In 2009, there are now more than 450 million Mobile Internet users worldwide, a number that will more than double by the end of 2013. Driven by the popularity and affordability of mobile phones, smartphones, and other wireless devices, IDC expects th...
Decline of Digital Media Adapters Predicted
According to the latest market study by The Diffusion Group (TDG), the global market for digital media adapters (DMAs) will be virtually nonexistent by 2014 -- a result of manufacturers shifting to embedded solutions and growing demand for video plat...
Portable Electronics Device Shipment Growth
The weak economic environment is taking its toll across most consumer markets. Consumer electronics devices are no exception. Yet even economic pressure can't overcome a broader migration to mobile and portable devices, as indicated by the proliferat...
The End of Growth for Mobile Voice Services
We knew that the day would eventually come when the mobile phone service growth engine would run out of fuel. Well, that day is coming soon. Mobile voice service revenues are on a trajectory to reach their peak in 2010, after which they are likely to...
Top 5 Mobile Smartphone Vendors for 2009
The worldwide mobile smartphone market reached a new record for shipments during a single quarter. According to an IDC market study, vendors shipped a total of 43.3 million units during the third quarter of 2009 (3Q09) -- up 4.2 percent from the 41.5...
Mobile Internet Device Market Diversification
According to the latest market study by ABI Research, almost 35 million netbook PCs will be shipped by manufacturers in 2009 -- a forecast the firm first made in February. ASUS dominated the netbook category in 2007 when it debuted the Eee PC, and Ac...
Touch-screen Mobile Phones Gain Adoption
A comScore market study of touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the U.S. uncovered a 159 percent growth rate during the past year -- to 23.8 million users in August 2009.The growth in touchscreen device adoption substantially outpaced the already str...
Upside for Wireless Broadband USB Modem
The majority of cellular broadband modems purchased as add-ons to portable and mobile wireless computing devices have traditionally been bought by businesses -- to equip their mobile workforces.However, according to a new market study by ABI Research...
When Smartphones Reach Market Saturation
The next mobile phone feature, no matter how cool it's said to be, apparently isn't enough to create meaningful competitive advantage. Consumers demand applications that leverage a combined set of features and improved performance to enhance their us...
Next Wave of IP Connected Home Devices
Broadband Internet access service adoption and home networking infrastructure advances have contributed to a new wave of digital home connectivity. On the hardware front, the trend in the digital home is headed towards more IP-connected devices, sign...
Fourth-Screen Scenarios in the Digital Home
If broadband service providers want to provide useful value-add services to consumers, then don't they need to become more fluent in the evolving domain of the digital home? It's a challenge, when most of your early-adopter customers know more than y...
WiMAX Subscribers Have High Expectations
WiMAX operators are departing from the current cellular phone device model, according to Senza Fili Consulting. Operators are pushing vendors to provide powerful, interoperable, and affordable devices that give subscribers the freedom to choose, plus...
New USB SuperSpeed for Multimedia Devices
With over three billion devices shipped in 2008 alone, USB is the most successful electronic device interface ever, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.Fueled by new SuperSpeed technology, also known as USB 3.0, and continued adoption acr...
Global PC Shipments Better than Expected
As in the first quarter of 2009, global PC shipments again came in slightly ahead of expectations in the second quarter (2Q09), lessening fears over the extent of the PC market slump.Worldwide PC shipments (including Desktop and Portable PCs, but exc...
Demand for Lower Price Digital Photo Frames
The market for digital photo frames has gone mainstream, particularly since prices dropped to affordable levels in the first half of 2009, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.However, most units shipped still lack advanced features such a...
Pay-TV Set-Top Box Demand Peaks in 2009
Shipments of set-top boxes (STBs) are expected to peak this year, at least in mature markets, and then commence a gradual decline. However, the analog TV shut-offs in countries around the world, combined with the strong uptake of high-definition (HD)...
Broadband Digital Home Network Evolution
By 2013, the average household will have 2.5 times as many digital media devices -- computing, gaming, stationary digital consumer electronics, portable and mobile wireless devices -- in use as compared with 2008, according to the latest market study...
Upside for Mobile Rich Communication Suite
Infonetics Research released the results on a new market study which tracks Rich Communication Suite (RCS) service revenue, subscribers, mobile phones and user clients.In a world where mobile communications is quickly evolving, all service providers ...
Mobile Phones Suffering from Weak Demand
The worldwide mobile phone market began 2009 with an expected sequential downturn, fueled by the ongoing worldwide recession. According to IDC, handset vendors shipped a total of 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009, approximately 15.8 pe...
Upside for Connected Consumer Electronics
Consumer demand for digital media and online content will push worldwide annual sales of connected consumer electronics (CE) to more than 100 million units by 2013, according to the lates study by Parks Associates.The market for connected CE includes...
World Digital Terrestrial TV STB Opportunity
The global semiconductor opportunity in standard definition (SD) Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) Set Top Boxes will peak in 2011 at nearly $500 million.High-definition DTT Set Top Boxes also offer a short term spike in semiconductor opportunity. However...
STBs in the CE Home Media Server Market
Media server PCs form the majority of the devices used to store and distribute multimedia content in the home. However, set-top boxes (STBs) and consumer electronics (CE) devices such as video game consoles will gain share of the home media server ma...
U.S. Mobile PC Data Card Usage Insights
ComScore released the results of a market study of U.S. Internet usage via mobile PC data cards, which showed that the subscriber base began to decelerate noticeably in Q4 2008.The study examined the usage and characteristics of mobile PC data card ...
Digital Home Networks are Still Too Complex
Growth for home networking products has been slowing in recent years, due to market saturation and price erosion. The decline is partly due to the current global economic slump -- and forecasts for core home networking device revenues indicate a decl...
Subscriber Upside for Mobile & WiFi Phones
Smartphones are evolving quickly, and differentiation is becoming increasingly based on software and the operating system (OS) rather than form factor, according to the latest market study by Infonetics Research.Smartphones still compete on hardware ...
Digital Terrestrial TV Set Top Box Market
The global financial crisis could endanger many large Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) deployment projects, which require large amounts of financed capital, according to the latest market study by In-Stat.This setback could cause major delays in DTT conv...
Joining TV and Social Networking Experience
The online social networking experience is moving to the television screen -- driven by a young audience interested in video features such as multi-player games, chat, and content discovery.This trend will help increase U.S. advertising spending in s...
