"smartphones" articles

According to recent research prepared by Parks Associates for HSN, women are more likely to purchase “hot” tech products than men. That includes everything from LCD TVs, to tablets, to laptops and smartphones. It turns out that women tend to engage in digital activities more frequently than their male counterparts. As a matter of fact, once a woman owns a digital product, she becomes a heavy product user over time. That usage includes everything from watching video podcasts, to...

Jennifer Kent , Research Analyst, Parks Associates will present on "Consumers and Their Mobile Devices: Data and Trends" on Wednesday, January 25th at 4 PM Eastern for the NARM Online Seminar Series. Mobile devices with anytime anywhere connectivity and powerful computing capabilities are increasingly reaching mainstream consumers. Smartphones and tablets are disrupting nearly every consumer-facing industry, including mature industries such as the pay-TV and video...

Consumer viewership of online video dramatically increased in the past few years, and this trend will continue in 2012. Nearly 70% of U.S. broadband households viewed online video on their PCs at least monthly in 2011, compared to 38% in 2006. Netflix recently announced that its members around the world viewed more than 2 billion hours of content in Q4 2011 alone. Consumers acquired an increasing number of platforms they can use to watch digital video. Throughout the course of 2012,...

You could get an inferiority complex about the televisions and appliances you own after attending this week's International Consumer Electronics Show. The way the industry's biggest names are tossing around the word "smart," you're left wondering whether any of the electronics gear you have has a high-enough IQ.Signs of the S-word in and around the Las Vegas Convention Center are everywhere: Panasonic trumpeting Smart Viera-branded televisions. Samsung proclaiming "The...

A vision of the future is taking shape that will allow communication with the ever-increasing number of gadgets in people's homes: A refrigerator suggests recipes based on its contents and keeps track of when the milk is going to expire. A wall-mounted sensor detects when a person leaves the house and turns down the temperature to a preset level. A homeowner who forgets to close the garage door can do so from across town via a smartphone application. All of these capabilities are...

Jennifer Kent , research analyst from Parks Associates will be participating at the 2011 mHealth Summit  during the Poster Presentations on December 5th from 4:15 PM -7:00 PM and December 6th from 3:30PM - 7:00 PM. Jennifer will be presenting on Parks Associates health mobile apps data from a survey of 1,428 mobile phone owners and 309 care professionals with mobile phone service in the U.S. The mHealth Summit brings together leaders in government, the private sector,...

New user experiences and a variety of viewing devices are expanding video's role from to an interactive, converged, and personalized entertainment experience. The implications to service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and content owners are significant, raising new questions about brand erosion, advertising revenues, and consumer loyalty. The Data-driven Video Discovery Evolution examines the phenomenon of video fragmentation and evaluates how an effective search...

Siemens Communications, Media and Technology (CMT) will be launching its new walletXpress mobile payment platform, which offers new services and products in the area of multimedia, ticketing, energy and healthcare, at the upcoming Mobile Money Global . The annual conference and exhibition is taking place in Dubai from 1-2 November and gathers the who’s who in the mobile money industry. Siemens will demonstrate the walletXpress platform for the unbanked and developing countries...