Worldwide Mobile Application Store Revenue Forecast to Surpass $15 Billion in 2011
Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011; a 117 percent increase from an estimated 8.2 billion downloads in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc.
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Dramatic Growth of New Consumer Electronics Categories Drives Wireless Connectivity Chipset Markets
ABI Research expects that when the final numbers for 2010 are gathered, shipments of wireless connectivity chipsets will reach a total of approximately 2 billion units, a 22% shipment increase compared to 2009.
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Mobile Services to Hit $870 Billion in 2014 as Mobile Broadband, Messaging Expand
Market research firm Infonetics Research updated its Mobile Services and Subscribers: Voice, SMS/MMS, and Broadband report based on revenue reported for the first half of 2010 (1H10), resulting in increased short- and long-term revenue forecasts.
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What's Happening on the Global Outsourcing Front?
As it has done for the past several years, Morrison & Foerster has put together a wide-angle look at the international sourcing market, as well as national and regional activity, with intelligence on key business drivers and industry sectors to watch in the year ahead. (Courtesy of its annual Global Sourcing Trends.)
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Mobile App Use Rises at Night
The use of apps and mobile web goes up in relative terms in the evening and nighttime, whereas traditional communication services capture more user attention in the daytime, according to new international Mobile Life Panel data from mobile analytics provider Zokem.
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Home-to-Broadband Services Emerging
Why should H2B be considered a specific category worth classifying and tracking?
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Increasing DLNA Software Certification Will Propel the Adoption and Connection of Devices Within the Home Network
The DLNA has started certifying software products as DNLA-compliant. The DLNA has been busy certifying hardware for some time; already more than 9,000 consumer electronics products have received the stamp of approval
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Email Evolution: Web-Based Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise
Results were released from a comScore, Inc. study on U.S. consumers' evolving email behaviors using data from its Media Metrix and MobiLens services. The study found that in November 2010, the number of visitors to web-based email sites declined 6 percent compared to the previous year, while email engagement declined at an even greater rate.
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Global Tablet Market Will Soar to U.S.$46 Billion by 2014
Yankee Group released its first-ever global tablet forecast, predicting total global revenue from tablet devices like Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab will increase from $16 billion in 2010 to a whopping $46 billion in 2014.
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The Need for Speed Pushes Broadband Subscribers to 763 Million in 2010
The growing popularity of bandwidth-intensive applications, such as watching online video, using IP-based telephony services, and downloading music files, is directly spurring demand for higher-speed Internet connections pushing the number of global subscribers to 763 million in 2010.
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U.S. Teens Send/Receive 3,700 Monthly Texts
U.S. mobile phone owners age 13-17 send and receive an average of 3,705 texts per month.
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FCC Survey: 80% of Schools/Libraries Have Insufficient Broadband Connections
According to a summary at www.muninetworks.org, only 21% of schools and 13% of libraries surveyed have connections riding on fiber optics. Half of schools and libraries are stuck on T1 lines.
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Business Mobile VoIP Gateway Revenues to Soar Past $6 Billion in 2015
Usage is on the rise creating significant opportunity for mobile VoIP gateway equipment suppliers as expenditures in this space are expected to soar beyond the $6 billion mark in 2015, says In-Stat.
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Average U.S. Household Has 2.5 TVs
The average US household has 2.5 TV sets, according to new data from The Nielsen Company. State of the Media 2010 indicates this figure encompasses 1.9 standard definition TVs (SDTVs) and 0.6 high-definition TVs (HDTVs).
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IDC MarketScape Shows That Mobile Operators Must Move Beyond Core Offerings to Gain Share in the U.S. Mobile Enterprise Services Market
A recently published IDC MarketScape report from International Data Corporation (IDC) offers a detailed assessment of the mobile enterprise service offerings from the 3 largest wireless telecommunications carriers in the United States.
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