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Roku Leads Streaming Media Players

by Tom Allen

More data on streaming devices has been released by Parks Associates, in addition to the prediction that the company made last month (Parks: Streaming Devices Will Rise 186%). ‘An increasing number’ of US broadband …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Smart Toy Revenues Driven by ‘Connected Toys’

by Tom Allen

Skylanders toys are imported to a game through an NFC code.‘Smart toys’ will generate revenues of $2.8 billion this year, says Juniper Research – driven by those that connect to mobile apps and game …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Toys| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Tablet Adoption Slowing, but Hybrids are ‘Opportunity’

by Tom Allen

A survey by Gartner has found that 17% of consumers in mature markets intend to buy a tablet in the next 12 months. 19,000 consumers were surveyed in early summer, across the UK, USA, …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 45| Worldwide

Q3 ‘Cord Cutting’ Decline Anticipated by TDG Research

by Isaac Oburu

According to research conducted by TDG in the first half of 2015, the percentage of adult broadband users moderately to highly likely to cancel their pay-TV service declined 20% between early 2014 and 2015. …

Tags:Market Data| Pay TV

58.7 Million Tablets to Ship Globally in 4Q15

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes Research said that it is forecasting global tablet shipments at 58.7 million for Q4, 15.9% up sequentially, but 22.6% down from last year. Apple remains the biggest of the main brands, which between …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 44

The Advent of Wireless Power

by Steve Sechrist

Fresh into our new millennium (umm, that’s the next thousand years) we may finally be on the cusp of cutting the last cord. The power cable that is, at least to our most prevalent …

Tags:display technology| Market Data| Mobile Phones| Vol 22 - Issue 44| Wireless Charging

PEW Releases Technical Device Ownership Data

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a new survey, the PEW Research Center released the latest data on technical device ownership in the USA. The survey was taken in the March / April and June / July 2015 time …

Tags:Cellular| Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphone Market| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Parks: Streaming Devices Will Rise 186%

by Tom Allen

Annual worldwide unit sales of streaming media devices will grow from 30 million in 2013 to 86 million in 2019, says Parks Associates. Last year, 13% of US broadband households purchased a media streaming …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Apple Watch Has 74% Smartwatch Share in Q3 2015

by Isaac Oburu

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew an impressive 510 percent annually to hit a record 6.1 million units in the third quarter of 2015. In first place with …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Market Data| Smartwatches