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Strengthened Competition Threatens RIM's Stellar Record | 03 Dec 09 tags › | Thanks to a slew of innovative devices, the higher end of the handset market has managed to weather the depressed economic climate. RIM's focus on messaging and data features, driven at first by professional users, secured the BlackBerry a very good spot at the start of the smartphone race. Price drops, together with free, open-source operating systems, will boost the mass-market adoption of cheap...

Microsoft Must Fight Back in Mobile Market | 17 Feb 09 tags › | Screen Digest believes it is vital for Microsoft to strengthen its position in the mobile space to ensure that its market-leading position in operating systems is not eroded by the shift toward mobile platforms. The threats it faces come from open-source opersting systems embraced by Google and Nokia as well as properietary hardware/software product offerings from Research In Motion and Apple.

Media markets: just how recession resistant are they? | 24 Nov 08 tags › | Given the widely accepted view that the worldwide economy is heading into recession, GMI analyzes the metrics of key media markets in the US since WWII to measure how they have stood up to previous downturns. Generally, consumer-paid models stand up better to recessionary pressures than advertising models and recessions have little impact on adoption of media technology.

Analyst commentary

US pay TV operators swarm around the iPad | 20 Aug 10 tags › | Verizon has joined Cablevision and Dish Network in announcing an iPad app to offer some form of TV service to their customers. Verizon and Cablevision's apps will, initially at least, be limited to live...

MOG expands music service to mobile | 06 Aug 10 tags › | The US-based music rental company MOG has launched MOG Mobile. Only available in the US at present, MOG offers on-demand listening from a catalogue of 8 million tracks for $5 per month PC-only, or $9.99 on PC...

Apple iPads outsell Mac Laptops | 21 Jul 10 tags › | Apple has released results for the quarter ended 26 June 2010. Sales of Mac computers continued to grow, reaching an all time high of nearly 3.5m, of which over 71 per cent were laptops, continuing the long...

Presentations

Mobile content market: Application stores transform the market | 12 Jul 10 tags › | 2009 was a difficult year for the operator distributed mobile content market, particularly in mature Western markets as content shifts from operators' portals to off-portal application stores and the availability of free media content increases. In response to a recent update of Screen Digest mobile media forecasts, Ronan de Renesse, Head of the Mobile Intelligence team, delivered a webinar highl...