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Parks Associates today announced the early sponsors and preliminary agenda for CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Monetizing the Digital Home, 13-14 November at the Crowne Plaza South in Amsterdam. The executive conference, produced by Parks Associates in association with ESNA, explores new business opportunities in connected home and entertainment value-added services through high-level analysis, global and European consumer research, and information on emerging and converging technologies.

CEDIA (the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) has appointed international market research company Parks Associates to conduct significant and unique industry research on the residential custom installation market in key territories within the UK, Europe and Africa.

This extensive research project, commissioned by CEDIA Region 1 (the UK, Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa, India and Pakistan) will comprise two defined parts. Commencing in June 2012, Parks ...read more

Over 50% of U.S. users of Apple iPhone 4S are “very satisfied” with the Siri voice-command feature, according to new consumer research from the international research firm Parks Associates. The survey, featured in Apple iPhone Siri Users, finds an additional 21% are “satisfied,” leaving a small number of dissatisfied users. Thirty-seven percent of iPhone 4S owners also want to have a similar voice-command interface for their TV set, and roughly 20% would not.

“Siri is clearl ...read more

The main driver for cloud-based services today is data safekeeping, but as content libraries grow, so will demand, both explicit and implicit, for solutions to organise, manage, and retrieve data, files, and media.

Additionally, allowing consumers easier ways to share content with friends and family as well as across multiple devices can be differentiating factors in a developing market. Consumers will quickly tire of uploading photos to individual sites (Facebook, Flickr, e ...read more

Governments, energy providers, and technology developers in many countries around the world are actively participating in the development of smart grids. In its most complex form, a smart grid consists of two-way communicating meters, measuring devices, communication networks, energy data management systems, home area networking (HAN) platforms, and energy management programs.

The smart meter is the key base component of smart grids and the first step towards full-scale smar ...read more

Parks Associates projects the percentage of U.S. households with professionally monitored services will expand to 30% by 2020, with consumer demand for remote monitoring, coupled with the expanding presence of broadband service providers, driving growth in the security market.

Parks Associates analysts say broadband providers are well-positioned to tap into this market due to their existing infrastructure and ongoing customer relationships, and their field operations can ena ...read more

Parks Associates announced the 6th annual CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Cloud Services, CE & Service Provider Strategies will be held November 8-9 at the Mövenpick in Amsterdam. The executive summit, with sponsors PacketVideo, Siemens, and Technicolor, focuses on the expansion of cloud, entertainment, and value-added services and the changing roles of service providers as households adopt connected CE.

"The average broadband household in Western Europe spent over €850 on CE products ...read more

Today's television services throughout the world are provided with at least a non-interactive EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), consisting of a menu of information on scheduled linear TV programming. Operators or broadcasters deliver these menus as a dedicated channel, broadcast by specialized systems located in the provider's central distribution facility. Customers can tune into these specialized channels in order to view all of the available linear TV channels and the current ...read more