Blog articles from 10/2009

Parks Associates is accepting submissions to be considered a speaker at the Smart Energy Summit, held in January, in Austin. The agenda for Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer focuses on the roadmap for the emerging in-home energy management technology market, offering consumer and industry research and strategic insight: Current status of REM and Smart Grid technologies Consumer interest in REM solutions Engaging the consumer: Strategies and tactics to communicate...

Parks Associates is supporting Advanced Meter Data Management from November 9-10 2009 in London, United Kingdom. With Smart meter projects being proposed and approved across the globe there has never been a more suitable time for SMi to hold their inaugural conference Advanced Meter Data Management . For more information please click here .

           Love us or hate us, you know that our analyst team spends hours, weeks and months sweating the details of our forecasts -- often boiling down reems of research into a single set of numbers. Sometimes accused of being too "rosy" and at other times chastised for not seeing more market potential, our analyst team constantly struggles with the right ingredients and the right recipe to bake the perfect forecast. Given that today...

Parks Associates is supporting the Future of Film Summit , which will be held on November 3, 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. Join the film industry’s key movers and influencers for Variety’s and Digital Media Wire’s inaugural Future of Film Summit focused on emerging business, legal, finance and technology trends in the $28.1 billion film industry. The inaugural event brings together top executives, creators and professionals from major and independent movie studios, film...

Product category hits new phase in lifecycle Digital photo frames will transition from an emerging to mainstream product category in 2009, when it will exceed 25% penetration in U.S. broadband households this holiday season, according to Parks Associates. The international research firm recently released Global Digital Photo Frame Market Update, part of its Digital Photo Frame Service, which reports that penetration in U.S. broadband households exceeded 20% in the first half of...

Pace announced an advanced multiroom DVR solution, Home Content Sharing (HCS). Pace’s HCS, which utilizes centralized storage to connect multiple high definition (HD) set-top boxes within the home, is integrated with Rovi’s Interactive Program Guide (IPG) and Rovi’s Connected Platform software to enhance the product’s advanced functionality.

Walmart has begun offering home installation services for TVs, home theaters and PCs through a partnership with NEW, as cited from this article from Video Business. The services, which start at $99 for a basic TV installation and $129 for a basic PC setup, will be sold via prepaid cards displayed on descriptive merchandisers and within the home-theater and computer aisles. The offering follows a major assortment and display upgrade within Walmart's consumer electronics...

Parks Associates supported Storage Visions Conference (SV2010) preliminary agenda and initial selected speakers are now posted on the conference web site, www.storagevisions.com . Announced keynotes include Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmel from Microsoft Research as well as Dean Klein from Micron. Here are a few of the confirmed speakers from the preliminary conference agenda : Storage for Content Creation and Editing: Clyde Smith, Turner Broadcasting; Alex Grossman, Active...