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Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Sep 27, 2008
From a virtual standing start of just 10 million units in 2008, shipments of ultra-mobile devices (UMD) -- the umbrella term for ultra-mobile PCs, netbooks and mobile Internet devices -- are expected to exceed 200 …
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Sep 25, 2008
Demand for intelligent control applications will push U.S. revenues for consumer wireless and powerline controls from $740 million in 2008 to over $3 billion in 2012, according to the latest market study by Parks …
Also tagged: security, systems, interactive, home networking
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Sep 23, 2008
It's true, touch screens have been available for some time, and are found in a variety of fixed and portable devices, but it was the launch of the Apple iPhone that refocused people's attention. Shipments in 2007 of …
Also tagged: asia pacific, design, mobile, device, adoption
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Sep 9, 2008
Ultra-mobile computing could far outsell desktop and notebook PCs in the long-run, and is now garnering much attention from semiconductor firms, according to the latest market study by In-Stat. Apparently, Intel is …
Also tagged: design, mobile, battery, device, semiconductor
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Aug 23, 2008
Gaming on a mobile phone is rapidly becoming a very hot commodity within the mobile data arena, in many cases surpassing mobile music and mobile video revenues for the cell phone operators. According to In-Stat's …
Also tagged: multimedia, gaming, mobile, marketing, wireless
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Aug 4, 2008
ComScore reported that the use of mobile maps is increasingly popular in the U.S. and Europe, with 8 percent of American mobile phone subscribers and 3 percent of European subscribers accessing maps from mobiles in the …
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Jul 28, 2008
As consumers increasingly surf the Web on their mobile phones, handset vendors are looking toward open-source browsers such as WebKit -- the browser engine at the heart of the iPhone's Safari browser. However, despite …
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Jun 16, 2008
Worldwide shipments of GPS-integrated mobile devices will grow at an annualized rate of nearly 40 percent over the next five years, reaching 834 million units in 2012, according to a market study by Parks Associates …
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - Jun 11, 2008
Third generation (3G) mobile TV services may complement or compete with mobile TV broadcasting, depending on the entertainment market savvy of the mobile phone network operator, according to the latest study by …
Also tagged: mobile, smartphone, tv, wireless, 3g, telco, dtt
Digital Lifescapes | by David H. Deans - May 23, 2008
The growth of data application traffic carried by wireless networks will likely force mobile service providers to accelerate their efforts to upgrade their infrastructure to a flat all-IP architecture, according to the …
Also tagged: mobile, smartphone, pc, wireless, segmentation