Subscriptions to location-based mobile social networking sites will total 82 million by 2013, according to a report.
ABI Research says the growth in mobile location-based social networking will be a key driver for the uptake of location-based services.
Posts Tagged: market-data
Carrier-neutral data center expert, Interxion, is to expand the capacity of its London City data center for the second time this year.
Growing customer demand for high power density infrastructure is behind the expansion.
Unified storage has yet to make an impact on IT decision makers, with few even able to define what it stands for and even less aware of the business benefits of implementation, according to a survey.
The study was conducted by Gartner and ONStor among 1600 global IT and business decision makers.
Internet advertisers will need to create campaigns that work with multiple devices and display sizes if they want to benefit from growing mobile advertising revenue.
That’s according to telecom analysts Berg Insight, who say a significant proportion of mobile advertising revenues will actually derive from mobile Internet users accessing conventional web sites.
Almost half of the IT organisations around the world have a VoIP network, according to a British Telecom study.
The UK telecoms company also found that a further 20 per cent are in the process of deploying VoIP solutions, with 71 per cent of these expected to be operational within two years.
The Indian market for VoIP is second only to China amongst the Asia Pacific countries and, with ever increasing numbers of broadband users, has vast potential for growth.
biz-news.com blogger correspondent Jolsna Rajan gives her perspective on the internet communications outlook for the nation.
Sales of high definition plasma TVs have risen by 37 per cent in the third quarter compared to last year’s figures.
A survey by DisplaySearch has shown that consumers are being enticed to buy plasma sets by sweeping price cuts, especially on 32-inch sets.
Greatly reduced HDTV price tags and packages bundling sets and blu-rays are among the retailing treats likely to be on offer to US shoppers this holiday season, according to DisplaySearch.
Logitech International has announced the acquisition of VoIP and videoconferencing startup SightSpeed for around USD $30 million.
SightSpeed’s software has received widespread praise and sits at the core of Dell’s Video Chat application.
The service allows people to make video calls, computer-to-computer voice calls, and calls to regular telephones, with free and paid versions.
By 2011, the digital data universe will be ten times the size it was in 2006, according to research from IDC.
This digital-data explosion will require IT organizations to adopt new tools and standards to ensure an efficient information infrastructure.