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strategy analytics ups mobile porn forecast to $5 bln by 2010

Mobile phone users around the world spent $400 mln on pornographic pictures and video in 2004, an amount that is expected to rise to $5 bln by 2010, despite the tiny screen sizes, according to an updated estimate from Strategy Analytics. The $5 bln in porn revenues by 2010 is...

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Blog posts 2005-03-17

strategy analytics ups mobile porn forecast to $5 bln by 2010

Mobile phone users around the world spent $400 mln on pornographic pictures and video in 2004, an amount that is expected to rise to $5 bln by 2010, despite the tiny screen sizes, according to an updated estimate from Strategy Analytics. The $5 bln in porn revenues by 2010 is...

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Blog posts 2005-03-17

42.2 mln digital TV users, 11.3 mln IPTV users in Europe by 2010

According to Strategy Analytics, 25.7% of Europe's TV households acquired digital television by the end of 2004, up from 21.1% during 2003. Digital Terrestrial television DTTV will continue to grow rapidly as more countries establish services, reaching 42.2 mln households by 2010. By that time, IPTV will have become an...

Tags: TV, digitaL, digital television, Strategy Analytics

Blog posts 2005-03-03

38 mln Western European households have broadband

Strategy Analytics expects 38 mln Western European homes to subscribe to broadband by the end of 2004, 12% more than the 34 mln originally projected earlier this year. With lower prices, higher access speeds and bundled service packages driving future growth, by 2008 the research company expects 88 mln European...

Tags: broadband

Blog posts 2004-12-23

38 mln Western European households have broadband

Strategy Analytics expects 38 mln Western European homes to subscribe to broadband by the end of 2004, 12% more than the 34 mln originally projected earlier this year. With lower prices, higher access speeds and bundled service packages driving future growth, by 2008 the research company expects 88 mln European...

Tags: broadband

Blog posts 2004-12-23

37 mln US households to subscribe to HDTV by 2008

Strategy Analytics predicts that the number of US households owning some type of HD-capable hardware will rise from 8.7 mln in 2003 to more than 14 mln by the end of this year. Roughly half of these households will also receive HD programming from cable, satellite or terrestrial sources. By...

Tags: HD programming

Blog posts 2004-10-05

510 mln phones sold in 2003, 560 will be sold in 2004

Global sales of mobile phones exceeded even the most bullish expectations in 2003 and market researchers said on Tuesday the handset industry will enjoy an even better 2004 as new, fancy models catch on. Mobile phone sales to consumers topped 510 mil units in 2003 and will exceed 560 mil...

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Blog posts 2004-02-03

strategy analytics: Camera phones outsell digital cameras

Backed by rapidly growing demand in Japan and South Korea, global sales of camera phones in the period expanded to 25 M units from four million units a year before, while digital camera sales doubled to 20 M units.

Tags: camera

Blog posts 2003-09-24

Additional Resources

Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?

Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...

Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Photos: Video cameras eye Richmond Port

Northern California's busy Port of Richmond has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system.The Port of Richmond, located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco, has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system with the help of security firm ADT and a $2.3 million...

Tags: Video Surveillance, Richmond, Video Camera, Video, Photograph, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-16

Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?

Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Frenemies

Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is ‘Frenemies'...

Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Rivalry, Silo, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Collaboration 2.0...

For the last couple of years I've been in the trenches managing a sizeable collaboration space across three continents for a large multinational enterprise. The diplomacy, strategy, tactics and sheer hard work of managing, building and running this type of space can be all consuming, particularly with...

Tags: Strategy, Web, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand

Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

OS security scorecard for Q1 08 - Do patch numbers mean anything to anyone?

Jeff Jones, director of security strategy for Microsoft, has published two papers this week which look at OS vulnerabilities. According to Jones, Windows sees fewer patches than any of the other operating systems looked at. If you're in the mood for a read, here are the papers:...

Tags: Security, Operating System, Patch Management, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?

I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test)

Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

What's wrong at OpenSolaris

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-15