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RFID Revenue Projections Take A Tumble
News US analyst group ABI Research has slashed its predictions for the growth of the RFID market, but denied that this means the technology is failing to meet expectations. ABI Research announced on Thursday that it had reduced its 2007 market forecast...
[August 11, 2006, 14:00]
Smartphone Boom 'won't Hurt Handhelds'
News Analysts ABI research have said that the PDA market will continue to grow, countering recent studies which predict a decline in the market as smartphones grow more popular. ABI research contends that this market will actually experience modest...
[September 10, 2003, 12:20]
Energy Inefficiency Could Kill Pure Cellular
News Instead, suggests the report by ABI Research — entitled Energy Efficiency Analysis for Mobile Broadband Solutions — operators may be forced to integrate WiMax and Metro Wi-Fi into their networks. From a pure coverage perspective WiMax is twice as...
[January 12, 2007, 13:22]
Microfuel Cells Vie For Market Acceptance
News Fuel cells will power nearly 15 percent of laptops worldwide by 2012, but their wider market acceptance may hinge on ironing out several service irritants, according to an ABI Research report issued on Wednesday.
[May 13, 2004, 8:40]
Symbian Heads 'to Top' Of Smartphone Boom
News The mobile phone industry will sell 150 million smartphones in 2008, 15 times this year's sales, with the Symbian OS leading the smartphone operating system market, according to a report published this week by ABI Research.
[January 9, 2004, 15:10]
Fuel Cell Phones Far From Reality, Says Report
News Firms that claim next year will see micro fuel cells become the next wave of long-lasting power for handhelds and mobile phones are fostering hype, according to technology research firm Allied Business Intelligence (ABI).
[September 12, 2003, 9:14]
Smartphone Market Feels 'iPhone Effect'
News Among the features likely to proliferate, in terms of enhancing user-interface experiences, include touchscreens, touchpads and accelerometers allowing tilt and shock-sensing, as well as haptics for providing tactile feedback, according to analyst...
[March 26, 2008, 7:46]
Wi-Fi Standards Face Patent Claim
News One reason that Wi-Fi has proliferated as it has is because it's reached a point where it's incredibly cheap, so it's easy to just stick a Wi-Fi chip in a consumer electronics device," said Stan Schatt, a vice president at ABI Research.
[November 21, 2006, 7:49]
Intel Calls The Shots For Next-gen Wi-Fi
News Products could ship as early as the fourth quarter of 2006, according to Philip Solis, a senior analyst at ABI Research. The ultra wideband standards process has definitely gotten bogged down in politics," said Sam Lucero, a senior analyst at ABI...
[October 13, 2005, 16:55]
Faster Wireless Gear Sells More
News In 2003, the Wi-Fi standard 802.11b was the most popular protocol, but sales of 802.11g equipment have already started to outpace the earlier specification, according to data that market-research firm Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) released on...
[February 25, 2004, 11:00]
WiMAX: The Secret Ingredient
White Papers According to technology market research firm ABI Research, these cost advantages help both the smaller wireless internet service providers (WISP) and the larger, regional and national players. From an operators' perspective, WiMAX, the new wireless...
[January 19, 2005, 23:00]
RFID Tag Market In Flux
White Papers When it does, the EPC landscape will undergo a seismic shift, according to ABI Research, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. In October 2004, EPCglobal, the organization charged with commercializing Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology, is expected to ratify...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Too Soon, Too Little For 802.11n?
White Papers Concerns include doubts about the technology's range and throughput, as well as its ability to play well with current Wi-Fi systems, according to a report from ABI Research. Being first in line is not always a good thing, especially when it comes...
[June 30, 2006, 0:00]
Smartphone Shipments Tipped To Boom
News According to a new report from ABI Research, smartphones will capture almost 15 percent of the global mobile market this year - that's some 123 million devices. ABI puts the upswing in smartphone sales down to more appealing devices that shy away...
[March 3, 2006, 9:15]
Jasper Wireless Targets Untapped M2M Market
News M2M, basic telemetry and telematics applications are traditionally thought of as being very low data-rate applications, using bandwidth only intermittently," said ABI Research's senior analyst Sam Lucero.
[October 9, 2007, 18:22]
IBM Introduces RFID Tools
News Liard, a research director who covers radio frequency identification for ABI Research. IBM is betting on new software to make sense of the reams of data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID) devices.
[December 18, 2006, 11:35]
Ethernet Creator Talks Up Potential Of ZigBee
News While a few companies have produced rather inferior solutions that are entirely proprietary, most of the companies offering 'pre-standard' products are themselves members of the ZigBee Alliance that is creating the standard," said Chris Lopez...
[October 11, 2004, 17:35]
GSM Group Declares Victory In Standards War
News Figures from technology research firm Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) support Conway's bullishness. Today, GSM dominates with more than 850 million subscribers, far more than the rival CDMA, with only about 150 million subscribers, said an ABI...
[September 25, 2003, 8:55]
Hitachi Squeezes Fuel Cell Into PDA
News Fuel cells must overcome issues such as water management, volumetric energy density and packaging before they can become widely used, according to technology research firm Allied Business Intelligence (ABI).
[December 11, 2003, 10:35]
Barclays Unveils 'wave And Pay' For Cabs
News A recent report from market watchers ABI Research predicts NFC-enabled mobiles will reach 450 million units in 2011 — nearly 30 percent of handsets sold that year. After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its...
[April 30, 2007, 9:44]
