Windows-based tablets continued to grab more market share from competitor-branded tablets by Apple and Google in the first quarter of 2015. Total Tablet shipments reached 51.8 million units in Q1 2015, down 9 per cent from 56.7 million in Q1 2014, according to preliminary data by Strategy Analytics’ Tablet & Touchscreen Strategies (TTS) service report. […]
Parks Associates research shows 27 per cent of US broadband households now own a streaming media device and nearly 90 per cent of these households have these devices connected to the Internet. The firm’s Q1 2015 consumer survey reveals more consumers bought a streaming media device than a Blu-ray player in the last 12 months […]
The global market for third party Internet of Things (IoT) platforms will show solid growth in the next few years, according to a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight. Total IoT platform revenues are forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.2 percent from € 450 million in 2014 […]
Research company GfK says that the value of the UK Consumer Electronics market fell back in March in almost every sector, except for large-screens and just about anything with 4K on its label. GfK tracks ‘hard’ sales achieved at the Point of Sale in retail stores across the country. The non-movers were Car Navigation (down […]
According to the findings of report assessing the performance and reliability of the various home networking standards under real-world conditions, there is considerable variation between some of the published and validated speeds. The report, Performance and Reliability: Home Network Technology Standard Comparison, published by Rethink Research, and
According to a forecast by Ovum, the number of residential gateways, TV set-top boxes and other home broadband equipment in use that support the Broadband Forum’s TR-069 (CPE WAN Management Protocol) standard will reach 356 million in 2016, as a growing number of service providers embrace the management protocol to support burgeoning demand for ultrafast-broadband […]
Fire TV Stick, Amazon’s OTT dongle, has become the company’s fastest-selling UK device since becoming available for pre-order on March 24th. The device, which started shipping on April 15th, plugs straight into the HDMI socket on a TV, allowing users to stream video from popular services such as Amazon Prime Instant Video (previously Lovefilm), Netflix […]
NSR’s Wireless Backhaul via Satellite, 9th Edition finds a robust market increasingly impacted by the much deliberated Non-GEO-HTS programs, specifically LEO-HTS presenting both challenges and opportunities for the industry. A diverse set of market segments are expected to grow at mixed levels, with current and next-generation solutions generating healthy revenue streams from $1.7 billion in […]
The television’s popularity as the go-to entertainment device may be ending, according to ‘Digital Video and the Connected Consumer’, a research report from Accenture. The television was the only product category to see uniform, double-digit usage declines across different types of media worldwide among viewers of nearly all ages. It is rapidly being replaced as […]
Technology market research firm Infonetics Research, now part of HIS, has reported that growth in FTTH and DOCSIS 3.0 customer premises equipment (CPE) drove the global broadband CPE market to $10.5 billion in 2014, a 9 per cent increase from the prior year. Infonetics’ fourth quarter