Recent Research: October 2009
Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:
- Symbian Handset Shipments to Reach 180 Million by 2014 (Juniper Research)
- Femtocell Revenues Will Remain Small Through 2010 (Unstrung Insider)
- 4.6 billion mobile subscriptions by the end of 2009 (ITU)
- Telemedicine Spending to Approach $3.6 Billion Annually by 2014 (Pike & Fischer)
- Memory Card Based Mobile Phone Shipments to Swell to 990 Million by 2013 (Strategy Analytics)
- Mobile navigation users increased twofold year-on-year to 28 million (Berg Insight)
- Wi-Fi Still Rules As Consumer Electronics Network Connections Grow (ABI Research)
- Linux to Capture over 60 Percent of Smartphone Market (Telecom Trends International)
- US mobile ad revenues to reach $4.2bn in 2015, 70% from search (Coda Research)
- Google Mobile Search to Top $500M by 2011 (Jefferies & Co.)
- Global MPLS over WiMAX - Fixed and Mobile (Research & Markets)
- FMC and femtocell equipment forecast to hit $7.4 billion in 2013 (Infonetics)
- Nearly Half of US Consumers Would Choose a “Green” Handset - At the Right Price (ABI Research)
- 2.5 Billion Bluetooth Low Energy Chipsets to Ship in 2014 (ABI Research)
- Off-Grid Charging for Mobile Phones to Power US$2.3bn Market Opportunity (GSMA)
- Global WiMAX Subscriber Base Reaches 4 Million (Maravedis)
- Apple Helping to Drive Mobile Game Market Sales to $11.7 Billion by 2014 (DFC Intelligence)
- Over half a billion people to use mobile money transfer services by 2014 (Juniper)
- ITU says 4.6 B subscribers by end of year (ITU)
- Uptake of Mobile Data Services Boost Prospects for the Mobile Ad Market (Frost & Sullivan)
- Android Smartphone Shipments to Reach 32 Million Units in 2013 (Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute)
- 385 Million Ultra Mobile Devices to Ship in 2014 (ABI Research)
- Apps Store Ecozones to help push Green App Download Volumes to 400m by 2014 (Juniper Research)
- Mobile Computing Devices, Handsets Drive 409 Million Unit Wi-Fi Device Market (Strategy Analytics)
- Half of U.S. subscribers to access mobile web by 2013 (JBB Research)