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Email to land in European cordless phones
News The numbers are small -- currently between 3 percent and 6 percent in the United States, according to research firm The Yankee Group. Email has made it to the home telephone. Panasonic, Philips Electronics and Siemens will begin selling "landline...
[April 15, 2002, 12:39]
Chinese government backs MP3
News A recent report from the Yankee Group predicted that Asian Internet use would reach 374 million by 2005. The first government-approved MP3 download site will go live in two months. The site will provide the country's 1.2 billion population with an...
[March 1, 2000, 16:22]
Battle continues over true cost of Linux
Talkback So I'm not sure how the Yankee group was able to fiddle the methodology to make the llinux restor slower. "believe" is not the same as "is". The tobacco industries played this line for a long time too.
[April 8, 2005, 8:06]
Eliminate Malware by Controlling Application Use
Talkback Yankee Group, 2005 Security Leaders and Laggards Survey) This report draws our attention to the fact that once again, the battle to protect a network from malware has proved insurmountable. Out of the 99% of enterprises with anti-virus protection...
[November 19, 2008, 7:39]
Photo messaging services 'baffling' to consumers
News MMS will account for $44bn (about £28bn) in annual revenues in Europe alone by 2006, according to the Yankee Group. Network operators have been promoting such services as picture messaging, media messaging and photo messaging, but the phone menus...
[November 29, 2002, 15:24]
Wireless Web - Is it hip ... or hype?
News By 2004, the Yankee Group projects about 5 million WAP-enabled handsets in the market. The market for wireless applications-enabled products, still in its infancy, is about to undergo a boom. This, according to executives gathered here to take the...
[May 24, 2000, 12:50]
Mobile giants bailing out of hardware
News We'll still be sticking with the forecast of 500 to 540 million handsets sold, but we're now looking closer to the lower end of the range," said Dan Downey, an analyst with The Yankee Group. On Thursday, Ericsson announced that Flextronics, a...
[January 29, 2001, 9:06]
AOL beefs up Winamp
News I think AOL does want to be in the top three, absolutely," said Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman. In addition to the video capabilities and attendant strategic complications, Winamp3 introduces a number of new features.
[August 12, 2002, 10:24]
Real competitors could go for gold
News We're going to see a market evolving where there will be lots of services that emulate the GoldPass model," said Ryan Jones, a research analyst at The Yankee Group. Consumers are increasingly looking to consume media in a single place, as opposed...
[November 21, 2001, 12:16]
Cisco starts security push
News Cisco isn't known as a security company," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group. SSL VPNs allow users to remotely connect to the corporate network using a standard Web browser. On Tuesday, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the...
[February 14, 2005, 8:00]
US Report: Net giants battle for portal dominance
News But that's just part of the game," argues Gregory Wester, a research director with The Yankee Group. And some of the players are likely to strike out before long. Excite, America Online and Netscape typically top the list -- along with smaller...
[May 11, 1998, 7:32]
Siemens tackles Microsoft IPTV dominance
News It's Microsoft's game to lose," said Adi Kishore, an analyst with The Yankee Group. The Yankee Group's Kishore said Siemens could make a good business out of catering to smaller service providers. Recent speculation about problems with Microsoft's...
[June 14, 2005, 12:24]
Look who's joining Linux bandwagon
News Small businesses don't need all the bells and whistles that Windows NT gives them," said Eric Klein, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston. Hundreds of software entrepreneurs, large and small, have jumped on the Linux bandwagon in the last year.
[November 3, 1999, 8:21]
EC joins growing debate on future of 3G
News Declan Lonergan, an analyst at Yankee Group, believes the Commission has embarked on a damage-limitation exercise but is not convinced about its power over governments. The European Commission will intervene on Thursday in the growing crisis over...
[March 21, 2001, 6:12]
PlayStation2 price cut expected
News The fact that the move comes so quickly on the heels on the introduction shows its concern for the company's first foray into a highly competitive marketplace dominated by Sony and Nintendo," said Scott Smith, director of networked business...
[April 22, 2002, 17:20]
T-Online rejects chatrooms from its IM service
News Analyst firm the Yankee Group believes that wireless data services will be driven by messaging, with 50 percent of users specifically accessing such services for messaging. German ISP T-Online has rejected chatrooms from its forthcoming instant...
[April 19, 2001, 13:58]
US Telecoms giant looks at throwing Windows out
News Researchers at The Yankee Group last month published a report predicting that small businesses will drive adoption of Linux on desktops. The company's chief information officer, Hossein Eslambolchi, has set up a team in AT&T's research labs to...
[October 6, 2004, 9:05]
Home networking gets a jump start from new tech
News People are buying them, so home networking is gaining momentum," said Yankee Group analyst Karuna Uppal. Inari declined to join the standards effort, choosing instead to support similar standards efforts in Europe and join with the Consumer...
[January 5, 2001, 9:20]
Sun's Java rules shape future of phones
News Indeed, the industry seems pleased with the effort to bring some law and order to the wireless frontier, said Yankee Group wireless technology analyst John Jackson. Sun Microsystems released its first-ever guidelines for the use of Java in mobile...
[January 31, 2003, 7:45]
Tech Stocks Tumble - No consensus on cause
News Yankee group analyst Andy Greenman thinks "the first step towards a major wobble" has occurred and believes Net sceptics who have predicted a massive crash could be right. Compaq's recent dismal performance coupled with the resignation of the...
[April 20, 1999, 12:05]
