A research paper from Cass Business School claims convergence of media, telecoms, IT and consumer electronics industries is mostly hype and now over. [more]
In a new Flash Eurobarometer survey on Data Protection conducted in January 2008, the European Commission gives a detailed panoroma on the perceptions, attitudes and views of the EU’s citizens on data protection issues. In this regard, two-thirds of survey participants said they were concerned (...) [more]
Smartphone sales to reach 500 millions units in five years
The market for smartphones will grow from around 10% of the total handset market in 2007 to 31% of the market in 2013 according to ABI Research. [more]
Mobile broadband subscribers: GSMA announces a 850% increase
The worldwide number of mobile broadband subscribers using HSPA has increased by 850 percent over the past year, according to the GSM Association. [more]
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that 156,100 patent applications were filed in 2007, representing a 4.7% rate of growth over 2006. Telecoms and information technology are the most innovative fields. [more]
Peer Review: benefits, perceptions and alternatives
The publishing Research Consortium has released recently an international study on Peer review, the process of subjecting an author’s scholarly manuscript to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, prior to publication in a (...) [more]
Four-fold growth for IP-enabled consumer electronics
At the age of the “Internet of thing”, shipments of IP-enabled consumer electronics reached 64 million units in 2007, according to a new report from industry analyst group MultiMedia Intelligence. By 2012, MultiMedia Intelligence projects over 217 million internet-enabled consumer electronics (...) [more]
