While the automotive industry continues to look for solutions that can close the gap with the much shorter design and replacement cycles of the consumer electronics and wireless industries, car drivers are increasingly adopting mobile consumer devices such as PNDs and phone-based software applications.
“With software continuing to become an ever-larger part of embedded automotive [...]

Telepresence – a kind of video conference providing the sensation that all participants are actually in the same room – is set for explosive growth. The whole market, which includes telepresence equipment, network services and managed services, is forecast to grow from a 2007 level of not quite $126 million to nearly $2.5 billion in [...]

Consumers using mobile social networks today are mainly checking messages, status updates and comments of friends rather than posting photos or comments themselves, according to a recent study by ABI Research. However, this pattern is changing as more consumers have access to better-equipped phones and social network applications that allow for easy uploading and communication. [...]

As more content becomes available for free online, carriers are increasingly investing in Video On Demand and time-shifting services. This trend towards time-shifted television viewing has helped produce a shift from schedule-based TV broadcasting to on-demand distribution. Time-shifting has created a new opportunity for operators to acquire and retain new customers, and has enabled several [...]

RadioFrame Networks has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.
ip.access Ltd and ZTE claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide picocell vendors.
“RadioFrame Networks tops the vendor matrix ranking largely due to the innovative features that the company has introduced in [...]

Shipments of four classes of wireless audio and video connectivity products for the home, which barely amount to 150 million this year, are expected to increase to nearly 700 million worldwide by the end of 2013, according to a new ABI Research study.
The technologies in question are Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB (ultra-wideband) and 60 GHz [...]

The digital signage market will more than double in size over the next few years, according to a new report from ABI Research. Driven by a desire by retailers and advertisers to better target consumers in the out-of-home media market, the overall market for digital signage software, hardware, installation and management services in the United [...]

Nokia has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.
Garmin and Intrinsyc claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide on-board handset-based navigation software vendors.
The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ [...]

The advent of high speed broadband connections and changes in consumer requirements have led to greater connectivity as households hop aboard the high-speed Internet bandwagon. Basic data-oriented devices currently account for more than half of the market, but they will soon become obsolete as full-fledged multimedia boxes with high throughput take over the market. A [...]

According to a recent online survey* conducted by ABI Research, nearly half (46%) of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15% adoption mobile adoption.
“As in the [...]