Strategy Analytics says a whopping 810 Million Mobile Phones were shipped worldwide in 2005; fourth quarter alone accounted for 245 million units. 2006 will see 930 million mobile phones shipped worldwide, and a billion in 2007.
Strategy Analytics says a whopping 810 Million Mobile Phones were shipped worldwide in 2005; fourth quarter alone accounted for 245 million units. 2006 will see 930 million mobile phones shipped worldwide, and a billion in 2007.
Greg Isaacs, who runs eBay’s developer program sent me an email this morning with this most interesting link. “One (loose) predictor of who may win the Super Bowl could be the value of Seahawks versus Steelers merchandize on eBay,” he writes.
Mpire, one of eBay’s developers has developed a little web tool, that takes eBay market [...]
Girls of You Tube, and now Girls of MySpace! (Not Good for Office Link!)
Chris Anderson of Wired wrote a short piece on what he describes the New Boom. It is an interest assembly of stats and observations, but it doesn’t delve into THE WHY OF THIS BOOM? For that I suggest you check out two stories we did in Business 2.0 - How To Ride The Fifth Wave? [...]
As the parade of earnings of phone companies continues, interesting trends emerge. And some proof, that Bells don’t need to muck around with the net much to make money.
BellSouth and SBC/AT&T reported weaker than expected DSL additions. BellSouth added 204,000 DSL connections, much lower than Wall Street expectations. BellSouth was able to make more money [...]
Sling Media, one of the pioneers in place shifting business, and maker of Sling Box, has been gathering good reviews and traction with the early adopter crowd. Why, it even has promised a Mac client, for those of us who belong to the Cult of Jobs. Matt Marshall, over at Silicon Beat reports that the [...]
Update: With a million metro fiber miles, Level 3 metro make over is way underway. I totally flubbed this one, and would like to apologize. PT will add 5% to this total. (network map is here!) What percentage is LVLT owned and how much is through IRU is still unclear. Please, if you have any [...]
Chinese broadband market is growing at roughly 90% every year, and at that rate it should surpass US by 2008, according to this report. Its not all bad news. US broadband penetration grew to 65.57% in December 2005.