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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]
Correcting inaccurate headline
Talkback Please note that the headline of this story does not accurately reflect the statement on the subject made by ABI Research. David Halperin, Communications Manager, ABI Research We said: "To put the UMD market forecasts into perspective, the 2013...
[September 25, 2008, 17:00]
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]
Apple still 'niche' in touchscreen market
News According to a report from analysts ABI Research, Samsung and Motorola are the leaders of the pack in touchscreen mobiles, holding 33 percent and 30 percent of the market respectively. All the other handset vendors — including Apple — are...
[September 11, 2008, 9:32]
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]
Analysts: Web 2.0 to spur smartphone demand
News A recent report by analyst house ABI Research forecasts netbook shipments will rise to 139 million in 2013, up from almost 35 million in 2009 — an increase of nearly 400 percent. ABI Research practice director, Kevin Burden, said in a statement...
[February 3, 2009, 16:13]
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]
Smartphones boost mobile web usage
News A report from ABI Research on Thursday predicts the number of smartphones with highly capable mobile browsers will grow from 130 million today to more than 530 million by 2013. The increase in awareness of the web on mobile devices — due to the...
[November 14, 2008, 8:38]
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]
'Green' mobile phones a long way off, says report
News Also, although most vendors offer recycling options, less than five percent of the world's handsets will be recycled ethically in the end, according to a report released by ABI Research on Monday. ABI Research cited Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson...
[December 4, 2008, 9:36]
Ultramobile-device sales to match laptops by 2013
News Shipments of ultramobile devices will grow from 10 million units this year to over 200 million in 2013, ABI Research said in a statement on Wednesday. According to Philip Solis, principal analyst at ABI Research, the ultramobile-device market will...
[September 25, 2008, 11:36]
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]
Sweden pushes ahead with 4G network
News More than 18 operators worldwide have announced LTE deployment plans, according to a report this week from ABI Research. ABI expects operators to spend $8.6bn (£5.8bn) on the technology over the next five years, despite the economic crisis.
[January 16, 2009, 14:28]
China's homegrown 3G may overcome bumpy start
News Hwai Lin Khor, wireless research analyst at ABI Research, also said users are exploring TD-SCDMA for lack of other choices. Despite deployment troubles, China's homegrown 3G standard will probably be given more than a fighting chance to take off...
[August 5, 2008, 8:36]
