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255 mln households to have HDTV by 2013

The number of households worldwide with HDTV service delivered via satellite, cable TV, IPTV and over the air will grow to 255 mln by the end of 2013, up from an estimated 45 mln as of the end of 2007, according to IMS Research. Blu-ray Disc market will experience strong...

Tags: Blu-ray Disc, HDTV, IBM IMS, Household, IMS Research, Blu-Ray, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-04

255 mln households to have HDTV by 2013

The number of households worldwide with HDTV service delivered via satellite, cable TV, IPTV and over the air will grow to 255 mln by the end of 2013, up from an estimated 45 mln as of the end of 2007, according to IMS Research. Blu-ray Disc market will experience strong...

Tags: Blu-ray Disc, HDTV, IBM IMS, Household, IMS Research, Blu-Ray, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-04

150 mln broadband subscribers worldwide today, 400 mln by 2009

IMS Research has revealed that the number of broadband subscribers has just passed 150 mln worldwide. This represented an increase of 51 mln since the beginning of 2004. IMS Research is forecasting that the number of broadband subscribers will surpass 400 mln during 2009.DSL continues to put distance between itself...

Tags: broadband, cable, IMS Research

Blog posts 2005-03-04

150 mln broadband subscribers worldwide today, 400 mln by 2009

IMS Research has revealed that the number of broadband subscribers has just passed 150 mln worldwide. This represented an increase of 51 mln since the beginning of 2004. IMS Research is forecasting that the number of broadband subscribers will surpass 400 mln during 2009.DSL continues to put distance between itself...

Tags: broadband, cable, DSL, IMS Research

Blog posts 2005-03-04

Additional Resources

Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

I want an iPhoneStormDroid

I want an iPhoneStormDroidUmm, Xen's been doing this for over a year...The Xen hypervisor has been shown on a future Samsung PDA prototype doing exactly this for a long time - about a year and a half. Great to see Wind River finally catch on, but notice how the...

Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Xen Hypervisor, operating system, Apple iPhone, crashe, iPhoneStormDroid, keyboard, HTC Touch Pro, Wind River Systems Inc., phone, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., Xen

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Research market shares

According to Morgan Stanley, combined TNS and GfK would have 14% of the global market research business, trailing Nielsen’s 18% but ahead of IMS in third place at 8%, and WPP, at 7%. After that, no other company has a share of more than 3%, leaving significant room for consolidation....

Tags: Market Research, Marketing Research, Marketing, AM

Blog posts 2008-06-23

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframeumm, good pointI'll change it to electro-mechanical.Thanks!possible error?[i]It was the first successful system designed "from the ground up" to advance automated data processing by replacing the physical cards and associated electro-mechanical gear with purely digital processing and magnetic tape or disk storage,...

Tags: Content management, Enterprise software, Mainframes, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe, content management system, IBM Corp., IBM O/S, zVSE, memory, MVS

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Net Neutrality outrage: reports of T-Mobile blocking Twitter

Update: Confirmed by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: Hey folks. T-Mobile has definitely turned us off without notification. At Twitter we make great effort to be in compliance with all the carrier "playbooks." We're still trying to find out why T-Mobile has taken this ...

Tags: T-Mobile, Net Neutrality, Twitter, Bob, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Groupware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-14

Intel CEO Paul Otellini woos the Oracle crowd

Intel CEO Paul Otellini went highbrow in his keynote slot at Oracle OpenWorld, invoking American architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright. He was preceded yesterday by rival AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz, who chatted with partners during his keynote see below. Both essentially gave promotional talks, which they...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Paul Otellini, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Corporate Communications, Storage, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Components, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-13

S60 Summit: Seminar, Expo, and full Summit 07 coverage and image gallery

I returned from Spain and finally had a chance to catch up on sleep (after passing back and forth through 9 time zones), celebrate my oldest daughters 13th birthday, and get back up to speed with a marine salvage case I started working on the week before I left for...

Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software, mobile services

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Claims Processor Speeds Reports 200 Percent, Boosts Accuracy When Catastrophe Strikes

IMS Claim Services wanted a faster, more accurate, and less expensive way to handle insurance claims adjusting for its insurance company customers. It found what it wanted in PowerClaim XML property estimating software from Hawkins Research Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Used both in the field by adjusters and...

Tags: Processor, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management

Case studies 2007-02-01

What makes Second Life eerily powerful is the zero-distance between thinkers and technology

It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time -- to actually finding them being productive in new ways.I was one of a 3D flurry of invited "VIPs" on Friday to enter an IBM pavilion inside...

Tags: IBM Corp., SOA, Software Development, IBM, Web Services, SaaS, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Internet, Second Life, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-15

Research: U.S. worker interruptions costly

Research: U.S. worker interruptions costlyNice article... wait my IM is popping upGreat article but I dont agree. I dont get distr What point was I trying to make? As I was saying, this study was seve.. Wait, gotta text my friend about lunch... so anyway, Oh I cant...

Tags: Instant messaging, IM, worker, phone

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Using disaster avoidance to drive change

Using disaster avoidance to drive changeThe DP strawmandied out when his site switched from IMS or ISAM to DB2.I've certainly never met anyone who subscribes to the views you put into his mouth.You would have a better chanceof pulling this off since you are an "outsider". Upper level management ULM...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Trivoli

Discussion threads 2006-08-17

Here are the top three search terms Vonage is buying

OK, what's that?Internet marketing research firm Nielsen/NetRatings has begun to calculate what it terms "Top 25 Companies By Top Three Search Terms." Let me defog this confusing terminology for you.This list is an extension of Nielsen/NetRatings "Top 25 Companies By Sponsored Link Impressions." N/NR says: "text-based ads that often...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Design and Implementation of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Emulator Using Virtualization Techniques

Multimedia service provisioning in Packet-Switched networks is one of the most active research and standardization efforts nowadays, and constitutes the most likely evolution of current telecommunication networks. In this environment, the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS represents the service provisioning platform of choice for SIP-based content delivery in mobile and...

Tags: Virtualization, IP, Service Provisioning, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2006-04-24

Will Foldera hit the mark?

I read this morning that Foldera, an online organizational tool that virtually no one has seen, has already had 400,000 people sign up for access to the public beta whenever it is finally made available. That's a remarkable number and it supports my contention that there are...

Tags: Foldera

Blog posts 2006-03-01

The great SOA vendor divide: business vs. tech

SOA has two faces. One is the IT-centric, technical aspects -- such as service-level management, performance monitoring, and security. The other face of SOA is all about the business, which includes application integration and business-level monitoring. This distinction has been identified by Forrester Research's Randy Heffner who separated out the...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-02-28

The coming war for real-time collaboration solutions

That's Siemens OpenScape, one of several powerful suites that provide for real-time collaboration in the enterprise. Other utilities in that vogue include Nortel's Multimedia Communications Server and Avaya's Converged Communications Server.Network World's Johna Till Johnson makes a good point about real-time collaboration going mainstream, and telecom vendors and carriers...

Tags: IM, dashboard

Blog posts 2006-01-16