Blog articles from 05/2016

One of the highlights of Day 1 of the CONNECTIONS™ conference for me was when Lee Gruenfeld, VP of Strategic Initiatives for Support.com , in responding to a question about the impact of security and privacy concerns on the growth of the smart home, said that consumers in general are uncritical about security lapses. For example, Target’s stock price is now higher than it was before the company’s highly publicized security breach. He made a great point, and I think it’s 100%...

With declining sales in many connected home entertainment categories, consolidation in the TV industry over the next five years will continue to have an impact. Television manufacturing and distribution is a prime example. In the U.S., more than 70% of U.S. broadband households use one of five brands—Samsung, Vizio, LG, Sony, and Panasonic—as their primary flat-panel TV. A similar concentration of four TV brands are purchased by 68% of U.S. broadband households for all flat-panel...