DivX Software Delivers Movable Media
News Already about 3 million US households swap files of movies and TV shows in file-sharing communities online such as Kazaa, according to research from The Yankee Group, which notes that a large amount of those files are encoded in DivX technology.
[January 31, 2003, 8:17]
MPEG-4 On Road To Rights Management
News A technical standard for digital rights management "had been the component missing from any MPEG-4 content or individual players", said Ryan Jones, an analyst for The Yankee Group. MPEG-4 is a standard for compressing large audio and video files...
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
Microsoft Partnership Targets Smaller Firms
News According to The Yankee Group, only about 20 percent to 25 percent of small and midsized companies use CRM software. Today, there are roughly 5.6 million small and midsized businesses in the US, according to Yankee, making up about 97 percent of...
[August 24, 2004, 12:16]
Microsoft's Nortel Alliance Challenges Cisco
News The fight is definitely on," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group Research. I think this could delay adoption in the VoIP market for companies that are just now considering switching their phones to IP," said Yankee's Kerravala.
[July 19, 2006, 9:05]
Customer Churn Indicates VoIP Static
News Cisco is predicting 35 percent growth in earnings per share for the next fiscal year," said Zeus Kerravala, The Yankee Group's vice president of enterprise infrastructure. The midsized bank installed 150 VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phones...
[September 17, 2003, 17:20]
Networking Standard Gets Windows Storage Boost
News Jamie Gruener, an analyst with market research firm The Yankee Group, said iSCSI adoption has been slower than expected. ISCSI (pronounced eye-scuzzy) is an Internet Protocol-based standard for transmitting data.
[November 19, 2003, 13:35]
IPTV Trundles On
News We are just getting to the point where IPTV is more than just an experiment," said Vince Vittore, a senior analyst with Yankee Group. The promise behind internet protocol television, or IPTV, is enormous, but fulfilment of that promise sometimes...
[June 19, 2007, 11:57]
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]
Avaya Replaces Chief Executive
News This is a good move for Avaya," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst at Yankee Group Research. In addition to its traditional phone business, Avaya is a leader in Internet Protocol (IP) communications. Avaya said on Monday after the stock market closed...
[July 25, 2006, 10:05]
Yahoo IM Blocks Trillian Access
News Market researcher The Yankee Group in April said that between 5 percent and 8 percent of all IM sent in corporations is spim. By making frequent protocol changes, it is our expectation that spammers will be blocked from abusing our system to spam...
[June 24, 2004, 9:05]
