Imaging-enabled mobiles and personal digital assistants (PDAs) may be the mobile telecom industry’s much needed tonic, with shipments of such devices set to reach 151 million units by 2006, according to a new report from IDC. The report, Moving Pictures: The Future of Mobile Devices and Imaging, points toward the improvements that the much-touted 2.5G… Continue reading Image-Enabled Mobiles May Help Ailing Telecoms Market, Say IDC Forecasts
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There were 96.7 million mobile phone shipments in the second quarter worldwide, representing a plateau in replacement rates by consumers, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The group is forecasting that there will be 417 million wireless handset shipments for the full year 2002. “Replacement rates have steadily fallen over the past 18… Continue reading Global Mobile Replacement Rates Decline Stabilises
European online trade revenues are expected to multiply in the next few years and will account for more than a fifth of all business trade by 2006, according to a new study by Forrester Research. The Future Of Europe’s Online B2B Trade reported on thirteen different industries in fifteen European countries and predicts that electrical… Continue reading EU Online Trade To Exceed €2 Trillion In 2006, Says Forrester
Liberty Media is set to make a second bid for Deutsche Telekom’s cable television assets, after its previous attempt was thwarted by the German Federal Cartel Office earlier in the year (see German Regulators Block Liberty Cable Deal). According to a report in today’s Financial Times, Liberty has forged an alliance with private equity investment… Continue reading Liberty Media Puts Together Second Deutsche Telekom Bid
According to a report in today’s Financial Times, Vivendi Universal is examining the possibility of selling its Express-Expansion magazine division as it looks to reduce a debt burden of E19 billion. Express-Expansion publishes sixteen titles including the French current affairs magazine, L’Express and potential buyers include the Dassault arms group which owns the centre-right newspaper,… Continue reading Vivendi Considers Sale Of Magazine Business
People who have watched or listened to streaming media online in the past week buy more compact discs than the average American, according to a new study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research. The report, Internet 9: The Media and Entertainment World of Online Consumers found that weekly “Streamies” bought twenty-one CDs in the last… Continue reading Streaming Media Encourages Music Sales, Says Report
Prominent cable and DSL providers in the US added a combined 1.37 million broadband internet subscribers in the second quarter of this year, according to Leichtman Research Group. By the mid-point of this year, the major US providers had over 13.5 million broadband subscribers between them. More than 65% of these users connect to the… Continue reading US Cable Firms Reap The Broadband Bounty
Advertising revenues at US newspapers continue to be weak, with the latest round of figures from some of the country’s largest publishing groups showing steep declines in national adspend. According to a report from the World Advertising Research Centre, USA Today – the biggest-selling US paper – saw national ad volumes fall by 16.0% in… Continue reading US Papers Continue To Suffer Ad Declines
The struggling media group Vivendi Universal is considering spinning off its US entertainment business in a deal involving John Malone’s Liberty Media, according to press reports today. The Wall Street Journal claimed that Liberty is planning to merge its Starz and Encore cable networks and interest in the Discovery Channel’s parent with Vivendi’s American entertainment… Continue reading Vivendi Mulls US Spin-Off With Liberty
Pre-tax profits at global advertising network, WPP, fell by almost 30% in the six months to 30 June 2002, the company announced this morning. Turnover fell by 2.0% to £8.8 billion, following a very tough period for the advertising industry. What is more worrying for the industry is that WPP, which is something of a… Continue reading WPP Warns Of Little Ad Improvement This Year