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AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to carry Samsung tablet

Samsung Electronics has struck deals with AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp to carry its new tablet computer, the Wall Street Journal says.

Samsung is scheduled to unveil the Galaxy Tab in the U.S. market at an event at New York City's Time Warner Center on Sept. 16.

The Galaxy Tab is essentially a larger version of Samsung's new Galaxy S smartphone.

Twitter Displacing RSS?

Many users appear to be abandoning RSS readers as a way to read the news. Hitwise, for instance, tells us that visits to Google Reader are down 27 percent year-over-year, while visits to Bloglines are down 71 percent year-over-year.

Real-time news increasingly seems to be something people think they can get from Twitter, or maybe Facebook. It is clear that real-time search has become more crucial now that real-time content services have gotten more popular.

The Death Of The RSS Reader

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Multichannel Video Providers Might Be in For a Tough Time

Bernstein Research says the cable and satellite industries face a "new normal" of years, perhaps decades, of reduced discretionary consumer spending, compared to the "boom" times that preceded the economic meltdown.

That is going to pose quite a management challenge, since the annual price increases service providers have been able to push through will be much more difficult.

Bernstein Research Senior Analyst Craig Moffett notes that video subscribers have recently declined for the first time in recorded history and said that it was likely more than just the downturn in new housing.

Some think a few more quarters of data will be needed to confirm a possible trend, but if the slowdown does continue, service providers and programmers alike are going to have to rethink their prospects.

Up to this point, programmers have said they need higher fees from distributors to fund the cost of more original programming. Fees paid to sports programmers have been a salient example of the trend, but not the only example.

If distributors cannot raise their prices, there will be new questions about whether the higher fees can be paid to the programmers, and new questions about whether the annual price increases can be counted on to fuel continued distributor revenue growth as well.

That will make the business case for broadband access investment more difficult, as entertainment video has become a significant part of the revenue mix for fiber-rich telco access networks.

To compensate, distributors might have to turn to higher broadband access prices, higher voice prices, or both. You can make your own guesses about what consumers might do if voice or fixed-line broadband access prices rise.

Moffett: Where Will Money Come From For Pay TV Price Increases?

Laptops are Most Common Mobility Tool

Laptops are the most widely provided enterprise worker mobility tool, but only 28 percent of employees have one provided to them by their employer.

Similarly, mobile phones, smartphones, PDAs, netbooks and tablets are reserved for only a small minority of the work force.

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21% of Enterprise Employee Time is Away From Primary Location

Employees spend more time away from their primary office than you might think. While heavy business travel is restricted to a minority of employees (only 11 percent spend more than 20 percent of their work week traveling for business), employees have a host of other reasons to spend time away from their office and colleagues.

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On average, 21 percent of employees’ work week is spent away from their primary work location (not including the daily commute), and that number rises to 37 percent for executives.

Whether taking a business trip, using public Wi-Fi in Internet cafes and libraries or working remotely from home, employees are spending an increasing amount of time working in mobile and indeed multiple locations.

Yankee Group :: Research Report