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Online retail is growing six times faster than high street

convenience

role of mobile phones

January 18, 2011

US social gamers to grow to 68.7 million in 2012

53 million in 2010

Zynga tells us it makes 90% of its revenues from gamers putting their own money into the system to buy virtual goods

only 10% of its revenues come from "offers" marketing, where sponsors agree to buy virtual goods for gamers, so long as those gamers agree to try a product

ynga will reportedly reach $200 million to $250 million revenues this year

th from 46 million in 2008 to more than 140 million subscribers in 2013. I

Total mobile broadband connections will increase in number from 32 million in 2009 to almost 120 million in 2015, at a CAGR of 24.8% in 2009–2015.

Nokia held a 65% share of the smart phone market, and grew its shipments 208% year-on-year to 1.1 million units

Fixed broadband will account for just 62% of the 1.16 billion broadband connections available worldwide by the end of 2015.

Central and Latin America will have the highest CAGR

Asia–Pacific

97% of the total U.S. land mass

21% of the total U.S. population

FTTH (fiber to the home) service, using optical fiber, provides an ultra-high speed network capable of communicating faster than a DSL or cable Internet connection. As of the end of March 2009, the number of FTTH (connection) subscribers was 15.02 million,

81% browse the Internet

68% use an app

48% watch videos on their smartphone

study uses the concept of 'face time'

long users actively engage

295 minutes per month on gaming.

I haven’t had this experience in 20 years. Before CDs came out, I’d buy an album and hold the 12-inch cover in my hand, sitting cross-legged on the floor while I listened to the music, read the liner notes, and looked at the pictures.” People used to have this very tactile, multimedia experience when they bought an album. But with the digitization of music, we’ve lost that special moment. You can think of the app as, finally, that chance to unwrap the box and have a personal, intimate experience again with music. It might be the case that people spend a lot of time with the app when it first comes out [as they did with album covers] and then perhaps they’ll move on to purely enjoying the music after that

grates Facebook and Twitter to provide a formalised setting for conversation –

Example 2: Junaio’s augmented reality app for Galileo (in German but self-explanatory)

Augmented reality offers an alternative way to approach the ‘second screen’ p

even with higher refresh rates, there are still only 24 separate frames displayed every second, but they may need to be displayed multiple times, de

Blu-ray 3D releases will require at least a 120Hz HDTV

Amazon.com’s deep discounting

deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,

Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store

Ericsson saw its share of the market rising slightly from a previous quarter to 33.7 percent

Nokia Siemens' market share slipped to 19.8 percent, while Huawei was able to hold on to its 20.6 percent stake of the market,

Alcatel-Lucent saw its market share rising to 16.2