The TOR Stat of the Week
Apple grew its worldwide market share of tablets from 55% to 68% in Q1 2012, according to a new IDC report
The TOR Stat of the Week
Globally, 33% of handset and tablet cellular traffic was offloaded to fixed networks such as copper wire-based DSL/VDSL in 2011, according to ASSIA.
The TOR Stat of the Week
Apple may well have sold over 100 million iPads by the end of 2012.
The TOR Stat of the Week
Twenty-two percent of intended tablet buyers say it’ll be a Kindle Fire, according to ChangeWave Research. Sixty-five percent say an iPad.
The TOR Stat of the Week
Amazon has increased orders for its Kindle Fire tablet to five million from four million by year-end, according to Digitimes, citing unnamed sources in the components industry. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a press release last month that Amazon was building “millions more” than it had originally planned.
The TOR Stat of the Week
44% of Brits are connected to the Web 24/7 with a smartphone, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
The TOR Stat of the Week
Almost 53 million smart TVs will be sold in 2012, more than double the 25.2 million that are estimated to be sold in 2011, according to Topology Research Institute (TRI), the largest private market research firm in Taiwan.
The TOR Stat of the Week
Social TV is here as 74% of broadband users surf while watching TV, according to Ovum.
The TOR Stat of the Week
Consumers worldwide will buy 180 million smart TVs by 2016 and 105 million Blu-ray players by 2015 — and all will need a robust home network connection, preferably wireline or a more robust Wi-Fi than most current implementations of 802.11n.
The TOR Stat of the Week
30% of Netflix subscribers are considering cancelling their service, up from 16% before Netflix announced it was raising rates, while rival Hulu passed one million subscribers earlier than expected.
