China is buying up a third of the world’s solar panels
China is emerging as a massive market for solar panels, not just the world’s solar panel supplier. As of Q4 2012, China has been buying a third of the world’s solar panels. Read more »
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The cable industry isn’t stupid, right?
A new study predicts $200 bills for the pay-TV portion of your cable bill by 2020. Here’s how the cable companies are using both a carrot and a stick to keep pay TV necessary in an IP age. Can government or consumers stop them? Read more »
The iPad isn’t a PC — so let’s not count it that way
By Erica Ogg
Apple doesn’t count iPads as laptops when they sell them, or when they account for them to shareholders. And we don’t use iPads the same way as PCs. So why are we throwing them in the same basket? Read more »
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NPD: Apple Takes Top Three Slots For Smartphone Best-Sellers In U.S.
By Ingrid Lunden
Android held on to its title as the most-popular smartphone platform in the U.S. in the last quarter, but when it comes to sales of specific… Read more at paidContent »
Research: Small Screens Better For Content; Bigger Screens For Productivity
By Ingrid Lunden
The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now — both in sales and basic concept — by the iPa… Read more at paidContent »
How To Succeed (Sort Of) In Tablets Without Really Trying? Ask HP
By Tom Krazit
What do you have to be willing to do in order to gain traction in an Apple-dominated tablet market? Give your product away at a huge loss. T… Read more at paidContent »
NPD: Already, More Than One In Five Smartphones Sold Is 4G-Ready
By Ingrid Lunden
Some interesting stats out today from the NPD Group underscore just how fast-moving the evolution is in devices today. Although fast mobile… Read more at paidContent »
NPD: Already, More Than One In Five Smartphones Sold Is 4G-Ready
By Ingrid Lunden
Some interesting stats out today from the NPD Group underscore just how fast-moving the evolution is in devices today. Although fast mobile… Read more at paidContent »
NPD: Android Has Market Share, But Windows Phone Has Mindshare
By Ingrid Lunden
Given how low the sales figures have been for Windows Phone-based devices up to now, it’s hard to believe that purchasing intent can be enou… Read more at paidContent »
NPD: Consumers Sticking With Entertainment Subscriptions
Newspapers and magazines may not be faring so well in this economic climate, but consumers are holding onto their entertainment subscriptions, according to a new survey from The NPD Group. The research firm says that monthly per-capita entertainment-content subscription spending rose to $115, which is up […] Read more »
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Online Gaming Grows as Retail Gaming Wanes
By Wagner James Au
Play Sushi, a gaming portal, has attracted 3 million visitors less than three months after launching, reports site owner Future Ads, yet another example of the explosive growth taking place in the free online gaming space. Sites offering free games clocked 87 million U.S. visitors in […] Read more »
As Small Notebooks, Netbooks Largely Dash Expectations
By Kevin C. Tofel
One sure way to hinder success of a device is a confusing name and an unclear purpose. That might explain the results of a recent NPD survey on netbooks, showing that many consumers are bewildered and disappointed with the gadgets. Some highlights from the survey tell […] Read more »
Vid-Biz: Eun, Kangaroo, Viralheat
Q&A With Google’s David Eun; one of the key guys tasked with making YouTube profitable says, “I know that we’re monetizing more than anyone else is making, and I know that our costs are significantly lower than what anyone else is serving up and hosting.” (paidContent) […] Read more »
DVD Tops for Entertainment; Online Delivery Small But Growing
People are sticking with physical media for their home entertainment right now, with DVD and Blu-ray disc sales and rentals representing 88 percent of consumer spending on home video content, according to a new survey from NPD Group. And though the number of people using newer […] Read more »
Viliv S5 WiFi Problem and a Fix
If you have been following my adventures with the Viliv S5 Premium UMPC then you are aware I have been so impressed with the little PC that I have ordered one for my own. I am getting a tremendous amount of good use out of the […] Read more »
The Incredible Shrinking CES
By Stacey Higginbotham
As the Consumer Electronics shows opens in Las Vegas this week, the papers are awash in stories about CES being smaller this year, by about 11,000 attendees (about an 8 percent decline) and 300 exhibitors (a 10 percent decline.) Given that the Dow Jones Index has […] Read more »
iPhone Defections Good for AT&T, Better for Wireless Broadband
By Stacey Higginbotham
Of those people that purchased the new Apple 3G iPhone this summer, some 30 percent of them defected to AT&T from other networks, according to a report out today from analysis firm The NPD Group. Read more »
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