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Wireless Plus can also be used to access video, photos, music and documents on the big screen through Apple Airplay, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) platforms or an app designed specifically for Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players, Horn said.

"Less than half of U.S. mobile phone users are highly satisfied with the storage of their mobile phones, and almost 20 percent are dissatisfied with their mobile storage capacity," Brett Sappington, director of research at Park ...read more

Social networking and other popular applications and services will be key drivers for Google TV, says Wilfred Martis, general manager of the digital home group at Intel, speaking at the Connections conference.

"Google TV represents a very high-profile kind of smart TV, and we're proud to be a part of it," said Wilfred Martis, general manager of the digital home group at Intel, speaking June 10 at the Connections conference in Santa Clara, Calif. "But smart TV is going to be ...read more

One of the more interesting studies focused on consumers and their portable media devices. "The wealthy and young are leading this market," said John Barrett, Parks' director of research. "You see very strong adoption among this demographic as they become conscious of the benefits of an MP3 player—when they learned how easy it was to get music on the player, they quickly adopted."

It's no surprise that people ranging in the 18- to 24-year-old demographic are driving the opti ...read more

Before Wayport had much time to glory in its April win of a bid to unwire McDonald's restaurants, one of its key competitors went belly-up. Immediately, it seemed, pundits and analysts everywhere were asking whether the retail model for Wi-Fi hot spots—the one that suggests wireless connectivity will attract new customers to a venue—had any promise at all.

A survey of hot-spot users done by Parks Associates last year showed that the vast majority of hot-spot users are still ...read more