Archive for May, 2006
Electronic parts are a $140 bln industry in the US
More than 15,000 wholesale distribution outlets of electronic parts and equipment operate in the US, generating annual revenues of $140 bln. Large companies include Arrow Electronics and Avnet. The av...
3.5 bln mobile subscribers worldwide by 2010
In the next 5 years, Pyramid Research expects the number of mobile subscribers to increase at a CAGR of 8.7%, topping 3.5 bln by year-end 2010, reaching 3 bln between late 2007 and early 2008....
Personal navigation solutions market to ship 12 mln handsets by 2009
Berg Insight forecasts that shipments of handset based personal navigation solutions in Europe and the US will reach 12 mln units by 2009. The year 2005 marked the first successful marriage of cellula...
US video game market generated $1.4 bln in 2005
US spending on video games for personal computers hit $1.4 bln in 2005, according to NPD Group. Online subscriptions to PC games and gaming Web sites accounted for about $344 mln of those annual sales...
18% of drivers need navigation maps 20% of the time
Cell phones will take 30% slice of $88 mln navigation market by 2010, Strategy Analytics says. At least 18% of drivers require maps or directions more than 20% of the time. The vast majority of consum...
MEMS in mobile handsets to generate $1 bln by 2010
MEMS consumption in mobile handsets reached $157 mln in 2005, and by 2010, consumption will exceed $1 bln, reports In-Stat. In addition to the microphones and bulk acoustic resonators that have domina...
Semiconductor equipment revenues down 10.5% in 2005
After an excellent growth year in 2004, the semiconductor equipment industry declined 10.5% in 2005. Total equipment revenue for 2005 was nearly $34.5 bln, Gartner said....
70% of Americans are unaware of what Media Center PCs can do
Although media networking is growing, many owners of Media Center PCs or PCs with TV tuners are still not using them for recording TV broadcasts, reports In-Stat. Many of these owners are not recordin...
36% of commercial hotspot operators think of VOIP as killer app
Trustive researched more than 100 Hotspot operators with more than 44,000 Hotspots in Europe, Asia and the US. 80% of the operators have at least one roaming agreement with a hotspot aggregator. Almos...
FPGA shipments to reach $2.75 bln by 2010
The Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) market, with a quickly expanding array of uses, is on a roll, reports In-Stat. The value of worldwide FPGA shipments will increase from $1.9 bln in 2005 to $2....
RDBMS market up 9.4% in 2005
The worldwide market for relational database management systems (RDBMS) grew by 9.4% to $14.6 bln in 2005, IDC says. There were no changes among the top 5 RDBMS vendors from 2004 to 2005, with Oracle ...
Online sales to reach $211 bln in 2006
Online sales are expected to rise 20% in 2006 to $211 bln, with pet supplies and cosmetics experiencing leading growth, Forrester Research reports. Excluding travel, 2006 sales are expected to increas...
Automaker TV ad spending down 0.6% in Q1 2006
According to TNS Media Intelligence, auto ad spending on spot TV was off 0.6% YTY in Q1 2006, as the Big Three's cumulative spend decreased by 4.5%. Daimler/Chrysler reduced spot spending by 9.8% in Q...
100 mln mobile VOIP users by 2011
Services such as VOIP, video, music, radio, news and instant messaging coupled with mobile devices such as a WiFi enabled iPod, and the ubiquity of broadband will result in 100 mln consumer mobile VOI...
Semiconductor equipment billings reached $9.58 bln in Q1 2006
Worldwide semiconductor equipment billings reached $9.58 bln in Q1 2006, up 20% from Q4 2005 and about 3% above Q1 2005, according to the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International....
23% of heavy gamers are very familiar with in-game ads
Game sites reach almost 50% of the Internet universe, representing 76.9 mln consumers in April 2006, up from 71.6 mln in April 2005. comScore found that 25% of Gamers are Heavy Gamers, playing 16 or m...
381 mln hard drives shipped in 2005, 24.4% growth
2005 was a record-breaking year for the worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) industry in terms of both shipments and revenueIDC says. Global HDD unit shipments increased to nearly 381 mln drives, a 24.4% i...
Triple play to generate $206 per subscriber by 2010
The addition of incremental value-added services, such as TV-based caller ID and home monitoring, to basic triple-play service bundles in the US will boost monthly revenue per subscriber to $206 by 20...
33% of heavy gamers are ok with in-game ads
When asked about their attitudes towards games with advertisements, only 15% of Heavy Gamers claimed they would be unlikely to play games that included such product placements. In contrast, more than ...
More than 25% of US consumers can play MP3s in their cars
More than 25% of US consumers own MP3 player equipment for their vehicles, according to Consumer Electronics Association. This may seem like a far cry from the majority (97%) who own the long time sta...
Japanese economy up 1.9% in Q1 2006
Japan's economy grew at a better-than-expected 1.9% annual rate in Q1 2006....
1 mln US jobs to be outsourced by year-end 2006
The number of jobs offshored from the US to India and elsewhere has tripled since 2003, to a projected total of 1 mln in 2006, with roughly 25% of them in high tech....
Western European mobile phone market leaders: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung
IDC published the market shares for major mobile phone vendors in Western Europe. Nokia, Motorola and Samsung led the market in Western Europe in Q1 2006.Western European mobile phone shipments in Q1 ...
25% of US households to own DVRs by 2008
By 2008, more than 25% of US households will own a DVR, up from 12.5% now, Forrester Research predicts. ...