The tablet computer market will become the third largest consumer electronics sector, after televisions and personal computers, forecasts Strategy Analytics, forecasting 149 million units will be sold in 2015, growing eightfold from 2010.
Gartner forecasts even stronger growth of 294 million units for 2015.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tablet market seen surging to $49 billion by 2015
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Will High Gas Prices Help or Hurt Online Sales?
Economics is supposed to be a science, but one wonders whether that is entirely accurate. Consider the question of whether higher gas prices are going to help, or hurt online commerce. One point of view is that consumers will drive less, and spend more online.
Michael McNamara, Vice President, Research and Analysis for MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, thinks online sales will benefit. "Based on what we've observed in the last three to four years, high gasoline prices typically result in consumers consolidating shopping trips, shopping closer to home, and making fewer trips to the brick and mortar locations as we get to Saturday."
According to comScore, an increase in gas prices may actually trigger a decrease in non-essential, or discretionary spending. Instead of forgoing car trips and using the money that would be spent on gas towards online purchases, consumers are more likely to decrease online spending and use those funds towards the purchase of gas.
"On the other hand, we've seen the e-Commerce channel benefitting somewhat from this trend," he says.
According to comScore, an increase in gas prices may actually trigger a decrease in non-essential, or discretionary spending. Instead of forgoing car trips and using the money that would be spent on gas towards online purchases, consumers are more likely to decrease online spending and use those funds towards the purchase of gas.
"I think it's fair to say that rapidly rising retail gas prices are cause for concern for the retail e-commerce sector," says Andrew Lipsman. "As disposable income shrinks, so too does discretionary spending as manifested in online retail."
"All other factors being equal, we should anticipate a two-percentage point decline in e-commerce spending growth rates versus what we would have otherwise seen.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Sprint, LightSquared, Clearwire in Advanced Talks About Infrastructure Sharing
Sprint Nextel is in advanced talks to rent space on its wireless tower network to LightSquared and Clearwire, the Wall Street Journal reports. For LightSquared, the deal accelerates the pace of its national terrestrial network construction.
Sprint will be paid by Lightsquared partly in cash and partly in spectrum, which will allow Sprint to deploy a new 4G Long Term Evolution network without waiting for spectrum auctions or deactivation of its Nextel iDEN network.
Somewhat oddly, given that Sprint relies on Clearwire to build the 4G WiMAX network Sprint is using, the deal also will allow Clearwire to finish national network construction at lower cost, as well.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
LTE could become available on 900/1800 MHz in EC by end of 2011
Long Term Evolution could be available in the United Kingdom sooner than many had thought, following a decision by the European Commission to open up existing airwaves used for 2G and 3G devices, making them available for use by LTE devices.
The EC decision states that the 900 and 1800 MHz spectrum must allow use of these frequencies for LTE devices by the end of 2011. So some network operators with spare capacity in those frequency bands could light LTE networks now, without waiting for a spectrum auction.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Web 3.0: A Web of One?
Web 3.0, when it arrives, will be about using all sorts of personal data to create a customized "Web of One" experience. At least that's the hope.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Monday, April 18, 2011
How to Measure Your Facebook Engagement
Whether "engagement" on Facebook or any other social network actually can be measured, people keep trying.
Many businesses set up a Facebook fan page and look to their fan growth rate as the primary success metric. But number of fans isn’t really the full story. You need to track and measure how much your fans are actually consuming, engaging with and sharing your content.
Perhaps more accurately, brands and organizations need ways to measure proximate measures that we believe illustrate "engagement."
Some studies show that a whopping 90 percent of Facebook users don’t return to a fan page once they click the "Like"button.
Some studies show that a whopping 90 percent of Facebook users don’t return to a fan page once they click the "Like"button.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
"It's Not About You"
"It’s not about you" might be the best single piece of advice a person ever can get. But most sales efforts are less effective than they might otherwise be because sales personnel focus so much time and effort on the products they are peddling, rather than listening to customers talk about problems they have.
Sales teams focus on their own needs and desire for success, and the customer is just a means to that end. Customers have their own problems, and frankly, yours are less important.
Sales personnel worry about their own image; they ought to worry more about the customer's need to succeed.
If you want to be successful in business, make it be about them. Not you. It's really good advice.
Sales personnel worry about their own image; they ought to worry more about the customer's need to succeed.
If you want to be successful in business, make it be about them. Not you. It's really good advice.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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