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Sales of MPEG Encoder/Decoder Chips to Hit 2b by 2013
Sales of MPEG chips (integrated circuits or ICs) that compress and decompress digital video will reach two billion units by 2013, according to In-Stat. The number shows the popularity of devices, especially portable ones that play video files in MPEG format.
"Compression technology continues to improve, offering...
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Nokia, RIM, Apple Lead 30% Increase in Smartphone Sales
Recessions come and recessions go, but consumer demand for mobile phones that connect to the Internet continues to increase rapidly. Strategy Analytics reports that global sales of smartphones increased 30% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier to 53 million units.
The company said Nokia (39.2%...
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Orange Voted UK’s Most Reliable Mobile Broadband Service
The UK’s most reliable mobile broadband service is France Telecom’s Orange, according to a study by YouGov, which polled 4,944 adults online, of which 2,037 used mobile broadband by means of a dongle, modem stick or data card. Orange subscribers in the study numbered 187.
Orange was...
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Smartphone Boom Is Underway
It looks like the best job opportunities are in smartphones, not plastics as Dustin Hoffman was advised in "The Graduate."
A $995 report from Portio Research called "Smartphone Futures 2010-2014" says that despite the recession, smartphone sales increased in 2008-2009. During the same period, worldwide handset shipments...
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60m Americans Use Web Radio Weekly
More than 60 million Americans listen to Internet radio weekly, and the number will expand to 77 million users by 2015, according to a new study from Bridge Ratings.
Of those 60 million, 84% are considered regular users and listen to at least five minutes of an...
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YouTube Movie Rental Revenues Less Than $11k
The final numbers are in, and YouTube’s experiment with film rentals for five films, which were available for 10 days, received a combined 2,684 views. Movies rented for $3.99, which gives a total of $10,709.16 for the company to divvy up.
"It definitely exceeded our expectations given...
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Report: 99% of BitTorrent Files Infringe on Copyrights
Coming to no one’s surprise, it appears that the vast majority of files on BitTorrent networks are pirated versions of a variety of content, infringing on at least one copyright.
A new study from Princeton’s Sauhard Sahi found that 99% of the files in a recent study...
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Workplace Piracy Up 55%
ScanSafe, which provides corporate software, has released a new report saying workplace piracy and attempted piracy is up 55% over the past three months.
The report monitored corporate networks and said the rise in piracy wasn’t restricted to software and often included movies and music as well....
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Three-Quarters of US Homes to Soon Have HDTVs
Illustrating why Internet videos must at least approach HD in quality, a study from ORC of US consumers shows that 62% have an HDTV and another 12% expect to buy one within two years. Together that would be almost three quarters of homes and would certainly include almost...
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Worldwide Mobile Market up 11.3%
The global mobile phone market grew 11.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009, ending five consecutive quarters of pitfalls, according to a study by IDC.
The study found that vendors shipped 325.3 million units in the quarter, up from the previous 292.4 million. The total for 2009...
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Netbook Sales Grew 79% to 30.2m in 2009
Netbook vendors shipped 30.2 million units worldwide during 2009, as worldwide units increased 79% annually, according to Strategy Analytics. The company called it "an important year for netbooks" and said North America and Western Europe were the biggest netbook markets.
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