"smartphones" articles
Sprint has replaced AT&T as the wireless provider to the City of Houston. Sprint’s win marks the first time a carrier other than AT&T has provided wireless service to the city in over 20 years. Sprint will supply cellphones, push-to-talk devices, emergency communications and data services for most city departments.
The contract, estimated at $15 million over five years, calls for approximately 10,000 activations of wireless services and more than 6,000 devices. The...
Mobile data revenues are becoming more important as voice ARPU and revenue decline. With voice service commoditized, carriers are developing high-priced, data-inclusive premium mobile service bundles to create new revenue streams and foster differentiation.
The growing consumer appetite for on-the-go solutions is also driving the development and adoption of more intelligent, highly functional mobile handsets. In 2010, smartphone shipments reached almost 300 million units...
Today’s consumers want TV content not just in the web browser, but on smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, etc. In order for “TV Everywhere” to succeed, the industry cannot offer content on a multitude of devices alone, it must also surpass the viewer’s search and discovery experience, known as metadata.
Metadata is the in-depth descriptive information about programming that includes title, storyline, cast, genre, release date, images and more. Metadata drives TV...
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. In its new report IP-based Home Monitoring: Security , which analyzes trends driving the market in 2011 and beyond, the international research firm estimates U.S. security monitoring, representing 18% of U.S....
Parks Associates and LEVEL Studios will co-host a complimentary webcast Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 1 p.m. CT. This webcast is for CE device manufacturers and all brand marketers who want the latest information about the smart TV, smartphone and tablet markets. The webcast will look at ways in which device categories are converging and the impact that is having on product usage and consumer behaviors, go-to-market strategies for manufacturers and marketers looking to take advantage of...
Almost one-third of people in the U.S. over 13 play mobile games monthly, and the number of gamers in older demographics more than doubled since 2007, according to Parks Associates.
The international research firm's new report Mobile/Portable Gaming: Market Updates finds the user base for gaming has expanded into nontraditional segments thanks to the popularity of mobile apps and titles such as Rovio’s Angry Birds. These changes will also force creation of new business models to...
Join Parks Associates for the complimentary Webcast The Impact of Cloud Services and Improved On-Device Content Experiences July 28th at 1 p.m. Central, hosted by LEVEL Studios.
Join speakers Daniel Blackburn, Vice President, Mobile and Tom Kotlarek, Vice President, Technology, LEVEL Studios and Kurt Scherf , Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates as they discuss how new and converging device categories are making it difficult for manufacturers to understand...
News last week that a consortium of companies - among them Apple and Microsoft - outbid Google for a number of Nortel patents related to the smartphone industry.
We can talk about business models all we want (subscriptions, microtransactions, virtual goods, transactional payments, advertising, etc.), but it appears that the new business model for wireless players is patent litigation. This is related to yesterday's Fierce Wireless article about Microsoft wanting $15 from Samsung...
