Mobile Internet and E-mail Services Jump in Popularity Among U.S. Consumers

Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

Forty-four percent pay for non-text mobile data services, reinforcing current business models for mobile carriers
Adoption of non-text mobile data services has exceeded 40% of the more than 70 million U.S. broadband households with a mobile phone service, according to Parks Associates’ new consumer study Mobile Convergence: Platforms, Applications, and Services.
Over one-fourth of mobile service users [...]

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Survey: IT spending to recover in 2010

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Kat Lorbissy

By Dave Rosenberg
Goldman Sachs’ latest IT spending survey is out and it looks a tech-spending recovery is on the way for 2010. To a large extent, the data suggests not so much that spending is dramatically higher, but that it has normalized at pre-recessionary growth rates, rather than contracting as it has over the past [...]

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Future of Virtualization Market in India Looks Promising

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Virtualization has long been portrayed as a technology that would change the dynamics of enterprise infrastructure. The overall market for virtualization in India is still nascent. It is shaping up to be one of the major trends that is expected to influence the end to end infrastructure of an enterprise, namely server, storage, network, application, [...]

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Global Concentrated Photovoltaic Market Worth US$266.0 million by 2014

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

The total concentrated photovoltaic market is expected to be worth US$266.0 million by 2014, growing at a CAGR of 33.0% from 2009 to 2014. Europe is expected to command the maximum market share at 59.3%, followed by the Americas, which are expected to hold 32% of the global concentrated photovoltaic market.
This is according to the [...]

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Survey: 90 Percent of Consumers to Shop Online this Holiday Season

Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

A new exclusive survey from Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software, reveals that more than half (56 percent) of consumers have security concerns about using credit cards online, but more than 90 percent of the 650+ respondents will still do so this holiday season. In fact, despite security concerns, more than 60 [...]

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IBM Moves Closer to Creating Computer Based on Insights From the Brain

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition, while rivaling the brain’s low power and energy consumption and compact size.
The cognitive computing team, led by IBM Research, has achieved significant advances in large-scale cortical simulation and a new algorithm that [...]

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Smartphones’ Share of New Handsets Sales in U.S. Will Double by 2014

Posted on November 13th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

A dramatic shake-up in the U.S. market for new handset sales will ensue as smartphones grow to comprise roughly 60 percent of new handsets sold in the U.S. by 2014, according to the latest forecast data from Pyramid Research (ww.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).
Pyramid Research’s recently released Mobile [...]

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IPC Named Among Top 100 Global Providers of Financial Technology

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

IPC Systems, the leading provider of indispensable trading communications solutions to the world’s leading financial services firms, announced its ranking on the FinTech 100. Each year, the FinTech 100 lists the world’s top vertical technology vendors that derive more than one-third of their revenue from the financial industry, as named by American Banker, Bank Technology [...]

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Who Really Invented the Telephone? ‘Not Alexander Graham Bell’, says author

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

In his provocative new book, “The Tangled Web Of Patent #174465″ (published by AuthorHouse), noted author and researcher Russell A. Pizer sets out to prove that an Italian-American named Antonio Meucci was the inventor of the telephone, as opposed to Alexander Graham Bell, who has long been credited for creating the ubiquitous device.
Meticulously researched, “The [...]

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First-Ever Report on How Brand Marketers Are Succeeding With Mobile Advertising Released

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

A new report reveals that marketers in industries such as CPG, Auto and Entertainment are generating high response rates and using innovative creative.
Quattro Wireless (www.quattrowireless.com), the leading premier global mobile ad network, today announced it is celebrating the company’s third birthday with the release of the first Mobile R.O.I. Report for Brands: Results and Objectives [...]

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Fuel Efficiency, High-Tech Features More Important than Brand Name, says IBM study

Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

IBM announced the findings of a new global study, which shows that trucks will become more fuel efficient, environmentally sound and safer due to the adoption of new technologies throughout the vehicle. The use of these innovations will help truck manufacturers differentiate their vehicles, as the study shows that brand names of trucks are becoming [...]

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Social Networking Sites Account for more than ‘25 Percent’ of UK Ad Impressions

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study of U.K. online display advertising on social networking sites, based on data from the comScore Ad Metrix service. The study showed that social networking sites accounted for 13.8 billion display ad impressions in August 2009, representing more than 25 [...]

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Research Shows Success of AT&T in MPLS sector

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

An independent research firm has cited AT&T as a leader in Managed Global Multi-Protocol Label Switching Services.
AT&T was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its independent report: “The Forrester Wave: Managed Global Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Services, Q4 2009″ (October 2009).
In this evaluation, AT&T was cited as a leader and received [...]

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Worldwide sales of Ethernet access market rises to $935 million

Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Worldwide sales of carrier Ethernet access platforms rose about 17 percent year-over-year to $935 million in the rolling four-quarter period ending in the second quarter of 2009, according to the new Carrier Ethernet Access Platform (CEAP) Quarterly Market Tracker service published by Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), the market research division of TechWeb’s Light Reading (www.lightreading.com). CEAP [...]

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These are the games that kids want most this holiday season

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Video games will continue to be one of the most sought after gifts this holiday season, according to a recent survey by specialty video game retailer, Game Crazy. The survey reveals that 86 percent of teens and tweens expect to ask for at least one video game this year. With video games hotter than ever [...]

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Digital photo frames near mass market status

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Abdul Montaqim

Digital photo frames will transition from an emerging to mainstream product category in 2009, when it will exceed 25% penetration in U.S. broadband households this holiday season, according to Parks Associates.
The international research firm recently released Global Digital Photo Frame Market Update, part of its Digital Photo Frame Service, which reports that penetration in U.S. [...]

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