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Location-based advertising is still in its infancy, but according to a new study from ABI Research, businesses are primed to spend $1.8 billion on it in 2015 as part of their overall mobile marketing budgets. ...
... Dell has come to market with a low-cost device that may do well in serving an often ignored customer segment, small business. ABI Research senior analyst Michael Morgan says, "With Dell's established ...
The number of fixed broadband subscribers totaled just under 449 million in the second quarter of 2010, according to ABI Research's most recent broadband subscriber Market Data. This represents a 10% ...
While carriers will increasingly seek to offload, more metered data seems likely Global mobile data traffic has nearly tripled in the last year, and increasingly mobile operators will be seeking ways ...
... rate, says Jason Blackwell, practice director, digital home at ABI Research. According to the latest market data, overall pay-TV subscriptions are expected to reach 854.5 million in 2015, with a 5.7% ...
In a cross-country comparison of mobile data pricing, ABI Research found The United Kingdom, France and Indonesia to have among the lowest prices for mobile broadband plans. In Indonesia, a 4 GB data ...
... now," says ABI Research's senior analyst for Enterprise Communications, Subha Rama. "I am inclined to assume that Google's stance on Wave may have been prompted by the fact that the company relies heavily ...
... differentiation. By 2015, we expect mobile services to overtake fixed in terms of revenue." This is a blizzard of figures and there's more. ABI Research reports that by 2015, 3.8 billion handsets, ...
In 2015, 3.8 billion mobile handsets – slightly more than 60% of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide – will contain mobile web browsers, according to a new study from ABI Research. That doubles ...
... by mobile data traffic on some networks, and this trend will only accelerate," says ABI Research wireless analyst Bhavya Khanna. "This boom in usage is driven by the rapid adoption of smartphones in these ...
...  ABI Research findings show nearly a third of smartphone subscribers have clicked on an Internet advertisement, such as a text link or banner ad, while using their phone. Nearly 80 have used a search ...
After four quarters of decline, the global mobile handset market began showing signs of life starting in 4Q 2009. ABI Research expects the trend to continue through the next five years. According to ...
It's not a tsunami. But the first waves of what could become a marketing "perfect storm" are already lapping at the feet of marketing departments in many parts of the world, and according to ABI Research ...
When ABI Research first examined the media tablet market, neither Apple’s iPad nor any other multinational-branded tablet had been released. Six months later, the firm has revisited its forecasts, almost ...
Revenue from mobile video services is expected to top $2 billion worldwide in 2013, according to the latest data from ABI Research. Video services included in this forecast are video telephony, video messaging, ...
Worldwide Blu-ray player shipments are expected to more than double between 2009 and the end of 2010, and the numbers from ABI Research forecast continued growth next year, for a total of more than 62.5 ...
ABI Research anticipates that Linux-enabled mobile devices, led by the success of Google’s Android and upcoming Chrome OSs, will comprise 62% of the operating systems shipping in all (non-smartphone) mobile ...
... it could now be facing greater competition in emerging markets, which it has been targeting with its lower end smartphones. And this is a battle it can’t afford to lose. According to ABI Research’s latest ...
2011 will be the year when LTE goes live in a big way, as Verizon in the United States and DoCoMo in Japan will begin wide-scale roll-outs by the end of 2010. ABI Research analyst Bhavya Khanna reports, ...
... this year to 224 million, according to ABI Research. It’s Vice president of Forecasting Jake Saunders said: “While there is considerable fanfare and interest around the latest iPhone and Android phones ...
ABI Research forecasts over five billion mobile subscriptions by the end of 2010, with an approximate 4.8 billion connections having been reached by the end of the year’s first quarter. Much of this growth ...
... ABI research. The firm reported last week that it was predicting worldwide adoption of mobile TV to accelerate rapidly from 2012 through 2015, with market revenues forecast to exceed $20 billion, as the ...
... can watch.  According to ABI Research figures, global pay-TV subscriptions will grow by 7 percent this year, nearly 720 million new users inking deals with cable and satellite providers, confident ...
... home practice director at ABI Research. “In Italy, the three operators, Fastweb, Vodafone and Wind are planning to launch a shared fiber optic network to deliver FTTH to end users. ABI Research expects ...
More than 719 million pay-TV subscribers are expected to sign up in 2010 as the economic recovery continues to gain momentum, according to latest forecasts from ABI Research. Digital Home industry analyst ...
... to a new study by ABI Research which forecasts that price erosion on in-vehicle navigation systems will hurt the category just as other technologies are beginning to grow to support it. In a new study, ...
... like media tablets, will generate more than 87% of total mobile network data traffic for US operators by 2014, according to ABI Research. While smartphone traffic was the share leader in 2009, by 2014 ...
ABI Research anticipates that Linux-enabled smartphones, led by the success of Google’s Android, will comprise 33% of the worldwide smartphone market by 2015. With more than 60,000 smartphones shipping ...
... channels and advanced services. “As a result of the positive market outlook for pay TV,” says ABI Research practice director Jason Blackwell, “global pay TV revenue will net more than $312 billion for ...
Starting in February, 2009, ABI Research forecast that approximately 35 million netbooks would ship into world markets in the course of the year. That estimate was viewed in some quarters as unrealistically ...
... GHz technology to form an important part of the high-performance future for wireless networking," said Phil Solis, practice director for Wireless Connectivity at ABI Research. "By cooperating, the groups ...
Today most mobile applications for smartphones are downloaded from “app stores.” According to ABI Research data, last year consumers downloaded some 2.4 billion applications from such stores, and the download ...
As demand for connected devices expands, Internet-connected TVs form a category poised for growth and evolution. According to new forecasts from ABI Research, the estimated 19% of flat panel TVs shipping ...
... go in one connectivity direction and much of IPTV the other. According to a new forecast from ABI Research, 46 percent of flat-panel television sets will be shipping with Internet connections by 2013, ...
... a certain bunkering mentality seeks to protect business, it has the obvious downside of halting expansion and slowing down improvements. This is why new figures from ABI Research come as welcome news. ...
... to ABI Research, which this week forecasted pay TV subscriptions will swell 25 percent by 2014. Industry analyst Michael Inouye says that, “Cable will remain the largest pay TV platform, satellite the ...
... that figure grew to more than 72 million, according to the latest market data released by ABI Research. “The USB modem continues to flourish,” says senior analyst Jeff Orr. “They remain amazingly popular. ...
ABI Research expects 2010 to be a big year for mobile application downloads, with just under 6 billion mobile applications forecast to be downloaded, up from an estimated 2.4 billion in 2009. The rapid ...
Two 60 GHz wireless protocols that initially target different applications may someday compete head-to-head, according to a new Research Brief from ABI Research that includes a forecast of nearly two million ...
Fourth quarter mobile handset sales almost always outpace the performance seen in the rest of a year. But according to the latest market data from ABI Research, the final quarter of 2009 was remarkable ...
... as 10-12%. However in a just-released study, ABI Research finds that the final picture is a good deal brighter than that. “There was a contraction in the wireless infrastructure market to be sure,” ...
... the demand for high speed broadband is increasing with the popularity of services such as IPTV and online gaming. New market data from ABI Research shows that global broadband service revenue has continued ...
After a rough two years, mobile operators will look to increase their capital expenditure on improving their networks in 2010. ABI Research expects mobile CAPEX to grow by more than 4% YoY in 2010, after ...
Despite a depressed economy, global pay TV markets continue to grow. According to the latest market data from ABI Research, they will expand by a quarter from 2009 to 2014. Industry analyst Michael ...
What is a smartbook? That depends on who you ask. “Smartbook” isn’t a product category, nor is it a brand. According to ABI Research senior analyst Jeff Orr, “As ABI Research defines it, a smartbook ...
... new forecasts from ABI Research. The next generation of set-top boxes extends beyond HD and PVR functionality, and includes, first and foremost, networking/connectivity as well as hybrid designs. ...
... $17 billion by the end of 2010,” says Serene Fong, industry analyst at ABI Research. Western Europe generates the largest share of global revenue which will continue to grow from $6.8 billion in 2009 ...
As reported in an update to ABI Research’s mobile business vertical markets database, the North American mobile business customer base was found to have contracted 2.9% in 2009. This contraction was ...
The number of fixed broadband subscribers will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014, according to new market data released by ABI Research. Of those, about 106 million will subscribe to services delivered ...
Set-top boxes are set to reach Asian consumers at an ever-increasing rate, according to new STB market data published by ABI Research. Overall STB shipments in the region, including those for cable, DBS, ...