"tablets" articles

A new survey found one-quarter of pay-TV subscribers have tried to watch online video that requires them to "authenticate" their status as a pay-TV subscriber. Authenticated video is one way of providing subscribers access to content via computers, tablets, and smartphones. The upside (from the pay-TV provider's point of view) is that the technological burden of delivering access is shifted onto content provider. The downside is that it makes for a pretty lousy user...

Parks Associates has relesased a new market focus, Support Services for Mobile Devices . This research analyzes the market for technical support services for smartphones and tablets. It begins by exploring and number and types of problems consumers experience and how they resolve these problems. Next it analyzes subscription support services including current and previous adopters as well as the demand for such services. Finally, it gauges the use of support apps and their role in...

Parks Associates and Dolby have released a complimentary whitepaper by the name of, " Audio Quality's Growing Value for Mobile Entertainment ." The whitepaper will examine the value of audio quality as an emerging differentiator in mobile devices, and it will feature analysis on current market conditions and primary consumer data. Some of the topics covered in this whitepaper include: trends in consumer adoption and usage in mobile entertainment, importance of...

Parks Associates ' Jennifer Kent was interviewed on RCR Wireless News about the shift in the M2M marketplace from B2B to B2C.     The M2M market has been predominately a tool for B2B relations in the past, but that is swiftly changing.  Consumers, in addition to businesses, are now presented with more and more opportunities to take advantage of these type of interactions.   Jennifer provides three key examples of where consumers are directly...

Parks Associates has released new market focus research entitled "Voice Recognition and Control on Mobile Devices." One of the key topics of this market focus research is the consumer response to voice-control features.  For example, Parks Associates research has found that over 50 percent of Apple Siri and Google Now users report being very satisfied with voice-recognition features.  Some of the other key topics include: Current ownership of...

AT&T announced its intentions to open two "innovation centers" as part of the company's desire to expand their reach beyond smartphones and tablets.  This announcement comes as part of AT&T's plan to remake the company's image into a more up-to-date organization that is capable of jumping on new trends.  The new facilities will serve as feeders for new ideas both from within the company and from regional start-ups. In Atlanta, AT&T plans to...

Samsung Electronics introduced its first tablet that can run both Microsoft's Windows 8 and applications based on Google's Android software.  The device will allow users to share files between Windows 8 and Android applications, and its hinge design has a keyboard that allows it to operate like a laptop.  The tablet market as a whole is set to grow by 45 percent this year to 332.4 million devices shipped per year.  Samsung is the Number 2 in the tablet...

Kurt Scherf, Contributor Tablets are seriously denting the sale of personal computers, and 2012 may have been the first time in 11 years that sales actually decreased . Shortly after CES, Intel reported its 4Q 2011 earnings , and its profit dropped 27% . The company cited slowing PC demand among other factors contributing to this drop. PC makers are putting their hopes in the recently-launched Windows 8 operating system with its focus on touchscreen capabilities and...