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| Apr 30, 2014
Well, that didn’t take long.
Less than a month after China set its guidelines for entrance into its game console market after a 14 year-long ban, Microsof...
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Eric Smith
| Nov 20, 2013
Microsoft set up shop in New York last week and held more intimate sessions with analysts and media in a smaller venue with less pomp than the Sony event severa...
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Eric Smith
| Nov 14, 2013
Sony held a two-day pre-launch event on November 11 and 12 in advance of its November 15 release of PlayStation4, taking over the Standard High Line hotel in mi...
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| Sep 19, 2013
I recently posted the following comments on an analyst forum:
The connected home vision is failing because of classic standards v. competition barriers. ...
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| Sep 10, 2013
The world of standards is rarely to be entered by the faint-hearted but the arrival of the HDMI 2.0 specification at last week’s IFA raised an unusually h...
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| Sep 05, 2013
There aren’t many analysts and journalists still standing who recall the days when there were two CES’s a year. Even just thinking that thought is e...
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| Jan 25, 2013
Almost 10 years ago to the month since Cisco announced it would acquire Linksys, the company has told investors it has agreed to sell the unit to Belkin, the pr...
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| Jan 09, 2013
As hoped for in my comments last week, television has created much of the excitement so far at CES 2013. Things started off well when the first major press conf...
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| Jan 03, 2013
Smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks will grab many of the headlines over the next few days of CES mayhem, and in some cases may even deserve their accolades. Th...
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| Apr 25, 2012
Strategy Analytics has been designing and analysing large scale consumer surveys for many years. Some of this work has been used by our industry analysts to sup...
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| Nov 10, 2011
I think I must amaze some of my younger colleagues when I show them one of our ancient hard copy multi-client studies, a few dusty samples of which I keep stack...
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| Oct 17, 2011
“The TV” has been about more than “TV” for many years. Ever since the first video recorders arrived back in the late 1970s, bringing hom...
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| Aug 17, 2011
I listened in recently to an analyst webinar given by Dave Durnil, director of advanced content at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. Dave's role is to convince games ...
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| Aug 09, 2011
Rarely has an emerging consumer technology divided opinion so forcefully as 3DTV. Commentators seem to feel obliged to take an extreme position: either this is ...
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| Jun 14, 2011
A colleague and I witnessed a fascinating example at lunchtime today of why LG’s strategic conversion to passive 3D is likely to gather momentum with reta...
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| May 26, 2011
I took an hour or so away from the excellent Connected TV Summit last week to stop by at the Screen Media Expo at London's Earls Court. While it’s not a c...
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| May 09, 2011
At the recent Blu-ray Academy and Mediatech conference in Hamburg, Germany I presented Strategy Analytics’ vision for the future of 3D in the home, focusi...
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| Apr 12, 2011
Barely two years after first announcing its intention to buy Pure Digital Technologies, makers of the Flip camcorder, Cisco is closing the division, making 550 ...
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| Apr 01, 2011
Based on most of the games press coverage, which frequently focuses on the US market alone, you might be surprised to hear it; but Sony's PlayStation 3 has pass...
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| Jan 27, 2011
I don’t often refer to competitors’ reports as the analyst community generally likes to maintain a friendly distance. But Canalys’ announcemen...
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