Americans are spending more time watching mobile TV and video, and they’re doing so across screens. Though smartphones continue to be viewers’ primary means of viewing mobile TV and video content, viewers are spending more time viewing on media tablets,…
Pay-TV bills are on the rise in the U.S., with the average pay-TV subscription for basic service and premium-TV channels reaching $86 in 2011, according to NPD market research. Pay-TV rates have increased an average 6% per year as TV…
Infonetics Research delves into the VoIP market in two new research reports, “SIP Trunking and Enterprise SBC Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey” and “VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers Market Share and Forecast.” In the former, Infonetics finds that T1…
Some 38% of all US households have at least one TV set connected to the Internet via a video game system, a Blu-ray player, an Apple TV or Roku set-top box and/or the TV set itself. That’s up from 30%…
The global market for smart hardware, software and services will grow at a 17.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2010-2015, with total spending reaching nearly $46.4 billion in 2015, according to a new IDC Energy Insights report. Smart grid…
Wi-Fi network use will nearly double in homes around the world come 2016, according to new Strategy Analytics research. Already used in some 439 million households worldwide, equivalent to 25% of all households, Wi-Fi home network penetration will expand to…
Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS will maintain their dominance of the mobile application market in 2012, more than holding off challenges from the likes of Microsoft and other mobile tech industry players, according to a new ABI Research report. Android…
Established telcos and cable TV MSOs stand to lose small business customers to an emerging “crop of hosted service providers that will offer PBX-like voice services at lower reocurring costs and with minimal site equipment expense,” according to new market…
Global handset shipments will increase 29% between 2012-2016, from 1.7 billion to 2.2 billion, driven by smartphone sales, low-cost smartphone sales in particular. Smartphone shipments will exceed shipments from the “ultra-low cost, low-cost, and feature phone segments” combined come 2016,…
Making things smart, i.e. making them responsive and able to connect to the Internet, is a trend already well established, but one with its greatest growth still ahead. Mobile computing devices are at the forefront of this wave of change,…
More than half of US iPhone 4S users are “very satisfied” with the Siri voice-command feature, according to a Parks Associates’ survey. According to Parks’ survey results, another 21% are “satisfied” with Siri’s voice command features, leaving only a small…
Digital media convergence has brought the Internet to mobile devices and to TVs , which now are “smart” and have internetworking capabilities. All of this has set the stage for the rapid emergence and growth of hybrid TV services, spelling…
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