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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Amazon is best hope of a viable alternative to iPad
 For every 10 tablets sold, five netbook or notebook sales will be lost in developed markets, it estimates, limiting notebook growth to 8 per cent year-on-year in 2011, and pushing netbooks into a decline of 13 per cent, to 34 million units. Many areas – especially the US, western Europe, China and Indonesia – will suffer from overstocked - ...read more
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Femto World Summit is all smiles (mostly)
"The mobile data boom - and the increased demand on capacity it has led to - is the biggest challenge currently facing mobile networks," said Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum. "Femtocells represent the natural solution for offloading this data. They allow - ...read more
Monday, June 25, 2007
Plaxo looks to social networking market
On Friday ENN reported on a survey by Parks Associates, which found that 40 per cent of MySpace users and 50 per cent of all social networkers actively maintain multiple profiles on sites such as Bebo, Facebook and Friendster.
The report found that nearly half of all social - ...read more
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Give people back more time and they will buy your IPTV
On the content side this isn't exactly a secret, given that bartering of live sports rights have formed the basis of pay TV wars for the past 20 years at least.
But it is true that in US surveys, notably those carried out by Parks Associates, the main reason for buying into a - ...read more
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Internet speed battle escalates
Household fiber connections from phone companies will grow from about 3 million homes by the end of this year to 18 million by the end of 2011, according to a study by Parks Associates, a market research and consulting firm.
Heightened competition comes as policymakers in - ...read more
Monday, February 27, 2006
US stops joining the worldwide web - official
Internet usage in the US has flatlined, with a third of the country's households stubbornly refusing to sign up. And don't expect any sudden surges of interest - only two per cent of US citizens surveyed by Parks Associates plan to sign up this year.
From the article "US - ...read more
Monday, February 14, 2005
Buyers said to favour a la carte music in 2005
Napster and co. will have to work much harder if they're to convince music buyers that subscription services are worth the money.
That's the conclusion of research conducted by market watcher Parks Associates. Its Global Digital Living survey reveals that only eight per cent of - ...read more
Monday, October 11, 2004
802.11a comes out fighting
...But the real prize will be a mass home market. According to recent research from Parks Associates, home networking will be a $12bn business in the US alone by 2008, while In-Stat/MDR is more cautious, predicting $17.1bn globally by the same date, split about equally between the US, Asia and - ...read more
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Seeking the continuous playing platform
According to our friends at Parks Associates, the US home networks research house, the number of US broadband households subscribing to games-on-demand services will grow to more than two million by the end of 2007. This market today is just 100,000 subscribers - and that's just US broadband - ...read more
Monday, February 09, 2004
We want a Sony media server
 “With unit sales flattening, PC OEMs hope digital consumer electronics will be their next big opportunity,” said Michael Greeson, vice president of research and strategy for Parks “Yet it is far from certain that a PC leader such as HP or Dell can cross over to consumer electronics and - ...read more
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