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A white paper published by the research firm Parks Associates takes an optimistic view of the prospects for successful deployment of ultrawideband (UWB) technology in the coming year, despite the inability of the IEEE (define) to get the consensus needed to set a single - ...read more

...Kurt Scherf, Vice President and Principal Analyst at the research firm Parks Associates, says it's "exciting to see that immediately on the heels of the initial release of the MBOA-SIG ultrawideband specification we already have an - ...read more

Last week, the WiMax Forum announced the formation of a Regulatory Working Group, tasked with improving availability of WiMax spectrum worldwide. "The availability of spectrum is mission critical for enabling mass-market deployments," says Intel's Margaret LaBrecque, - ...read more

Not all industry watchers think the move is logical. Will Cheek, an analyst with Parks Associates, told internetnews.com that a Google VoIP offering could be at a disadvantage against services from telecoms or cable operators.

"[Google doesn't] control the - ...read more

Yet, with all these digital music files filling up hard drives, research from Parks Associates indicates that most music-lovers lack immediate playing portability.

The September 2003 study finds that only 20 percent of digital-music users own an MP3 player — and a - ...read more

Parks Associates found that two-thirds of the 10,500 Internet households that were surveyed created a network to share an Internet connection....

"Current home network users — consumers who already have data networks for PC connectivity — will constitute a - ...read more

Is it any surprise that 45 percent of U.S. households still don't have a DVD player? Or that 45 percent of the people who own a PC say they are intimidated by technology, said [Carly] Fiorina [HP chairman and chief executive officer], citing research performed by Parks - ...read more

And while researchers say the majority of McDonald's customers don't have Wi-Fi access, that will change as the price of laptops, mobile phones and PDAs drop and new products have chips that automatically find and connect to Wi-Fi hotspots.

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Furthermore, Parks Associates forecasts a five-fold increase in products connected in entertainment-centric home networks by the end of 2007. The report estimates there will be 35 million nodes in U.S. homes by the end of the year; 65 million in 2004; 95 million in 2005; 136 - ...read more

In January of this year Dallas-based market research and consulting firm Parks Associates conducted a survey of 10,800 Internet-enabled homes that traced a growing trend among U.S. households to network PCs with consumer electronics products such as televisions and stereos.