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Smart energy gear — from smart meters to intelligent plugs to routers that can connect with smart meters — represents the largest growth opportunity for chips and modules that use the wireless standard ZigBee (or in geek terms 802.15.4). Read more »

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The act of watching online video on one’s television might experience a serious boom in the next five years. According to In-Stat, by the year 2014 57 million US households will be watching online content on their TVs, with revenue potentially reaching $17 billion. Read more »

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The Internet is coming to the flat-screen TV in your living room, and one of the devices that’s making this possible is the set-top box provided by your cable TV company. A new report estimates that hybrid set-top boxes will be worth $1.4 billion by 2014. Read more »

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26 percent of US consumers watch TV programming online more than once a week, according to a new report from In-Stat titled “OTT Video Platforms, Devices, and Consumer Expectations.” And more and more of these consumers watch online video in the living room, thanks to game […] Read more »

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VoIP penetration among U.S. businesses will increase rapidly over the next few years, reaching 79 percent by 2013 according to research out today from analyst firm In-Stat. At this point I wonder what market represents the last stand for legacy voice; consumer landlines or mobile networks? Read more »

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Cell phone companies are by no means racing to use renewable sources of energy, such as solar and wind, to power the infrastructure that runs their wireless networks. Of the more than 4 million cellular base stations deployed world wide, less than 2,000 run on clean […] Read more »

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While Chris laid out in convincing fashion this morning why DVRs offer a preferable experience to Comcast VOD, what about the encroachment of over-the-top delivery on VOD? In-Stat thinks cheaper and more efficient Internet delivery is the way of the future. The firm today released research […] Read more »

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Joost Labs launched a version of its web TV service for the PlayStation 3 today, making it accessible on your television set via the game console. Well, making some of Joost’s content accessible on your PS3 — just not anything from Viacom, Warner Bros. or CBS. […] Read more »

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More than 40 percent of young adult U.S. households (ages 18-35) watch web video on their TV at least once a month, according to new numbers from In-Stat. The research firm predicts that by 2013, revenue from web-to-TV streaming services will hit $2.9 billion. Web video […] Read more »

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Nokia recently called WiMAX “wireless Betamax,” and its just one example of the lashing WiMAX has received from the technology community and the press. Most mobile operators are going with LTE. Even the much-heralded HTC WiMAX phone for the Russian WiMAX network Yota requires an awkward […] Read more »

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More than 66 million U.S. consumers are using their computer while watching TV, according to new research from In-Stat. In-Stat’s survey also found that more men than women are creating these so-called two-screen experiences, with 33 percent of male respondents saying they sometimes use a PC […] Read more »

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AT&T yesterday announced a package that combines wired broadband with mobile broadband via the carrier’s 3G cellular network and 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. Customers in Atlanta and Philadelphia can now sign up for plans that offer 200 MB or 5 GB per month of mobile data for […] Read more »

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So NewTeeVee readers might be forlorn over the lack of a video camera in the latest iPhone, especially since you guys asked for it, but as a consolation prize you can watch other people’s content over the AT&T 3G network. The first iPhone allowed for slow […] Read more »

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More research is out showing that today’s youth view their mobile phones as an extension of the online lives they keep on their PCs. This report from In-Stat points out that millennials, the generation aged 8 to 27, use their mobile phones to access their social […] Read more »