Recent Research: February 2010
Bonus: The Tomi Ahonen Cheat Sheet on all major mobile industry numbers
Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:
- Smartphone Market Grew 39% in Q4 2009 (IDC)
- Netbook Shipments Grew 79% in 2009, Further Growth in 2010 (Strategy Analytics)
- Wireless M2M Modules in Security Apps to Reach 22 Million by 2014 (Berg Insight)
- Mobile Cloud Application Revenues To Hit $9.5 billion by 2014 (Juniper Research)
- Cisco forecasts mobile data traffic to grow 39-fold through 2014 (Cisco)
- Embedded Mobile and M2M Device Revenues to Rise to $19 Billion by 2014 (Juniper Research)
- Global telecom services market estimated at $1,440 billion in 2009 (IDATE)
- Mobile messaging revenues expected to top $233B by 2014 (Portio Research)
- App stores anticipated to generate $15 billion in 2013 (Futuresource)
- WiMAX to Cover More Than 800 Million People by End of 2010 (The WiMax Forum)
- ITU sees 5 billion mobile subscriptions globally in 2010 (ITU)
- Mobile shopping will balloon to $119B by 2015 (ABI Research)
- More Than One Billion Mobile Workers Worldwide by Year’s End (IDC)
- Mobile Location-Based Services Market to exceed $12bn by 2014 (Juniper Research)
- Over 160 Million Smartbooks Expected to Ship in 2015 (ABI Research)