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The range issue reflects a larger trend in home networking, Soares says. According to Parks Associates, 2011 will be the first year when the average American home will have more consumer-electronic gadgets on the Internet than computers. If you've got the latest technology, your TV, smartphone, tablet, music player and game console can all be connected to the Web - ...read more

Social and mobile games probably aren't drawing sales away from the console games business, but are "expanding the pie," said Pietro Macchiarella, an analyst with Parks Associates. "They attract people who didn't play games - ...read more

With visions of sweet profits dancing in their heads, HDTV vendors rolled out new features the past several months to entice people to pay top dollar for new televisions. Consumers didn't bite widely, though, so "vendors have been dropping prices by anywhere from 5% to 10%," - ...read more

The history of Internet-video-on-TV is bleak, says Kurt Scherf, an analyst at research firm Parks Associates. Vudu, Akimbo, Joost, MovieBeam and USDTV are among those that have so far failed. "These are all good examples as to how difficult - ...read more

Likewise, Parks Associates found that more than half of mobile phone users now have phones that are capable of downloading and playing mobile games.

According to Parks Associates, females make up 61% of people playing mobile games between one and four times per month, and 58% - ...read more

While Netgear focuses on businesses, storage for the home networking market has a great outlook, says Kurt Scherf, an analyst at Parks Associates.

Scherf sees annual purchases for home networking storage - ...read more

Hearst plans to run 10- and 15-second "pre-roll," or TV-like, ads before each video.

Such ads are catching the eye of advertisers that want to find ways to reach the online audience.

Hearst wants to get in on the ground floor, says Michael Cai, an analyst - ...read more

The latest trend is incorporating social networking and blogging services into cell phones, says John Barrett, an analyst with Parks Associates. Examples include Cingular Wireless' deal with MySpace, a unit of News Corp., (NWS) and Verizon Wireless' deal - ...read more

"AT&T is on the leading edge of what will be a big play," said Bill Ablondi, an analyst with Parks Associates, a research firm that focuses on the digital-living market. "There are a number of players lining up at the gate. We're going - ...read more

According to Nielsen/NetRatings, MySpace saw its number of unique visitors in April skyrocket by 367% vs. April 2005 to 38.4 million visitors. That's vs. average growth of 47% for the 10 most-visited social networking Web sites, a group that is led by MySpace. "This is just the tip - ...read more