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Alliance Raises Curtain on Wi-Fi 7

“Novel generative AI applications that require high throughput will benefit from Wi-Fi 7’s fast speeds,” added Kristen Hanich, an analyst at Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company specializing in consumer technology products, in Dallas “We’re also...

Next-Generation Wi-Fi 7 Standard Expected To Be Finalized in Early 2024

"Wi-Fi 7 offers dramatically increased speeds over Wi-Fi 6 and 6E," said Kristen Hanich, an analyst with Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company specializing in consumer technology products, in Dallas "Wi-Fi 7’s key differentiating feature over 6 and 6E is...

One More Thing…Apple Unveils Vision Pro Mixed-Reality Headset at WWDC23

"In the consumer space, there is low familiarity with the term augmented reality," Kristen Hanich, an analyst with Parks Associates, a Dallas market research and consulting company, wrote in the Connected Consumer Newsletter "However, most consumer use is of popular applicatio...

Cloud Gaming Revenues to Soar to $12B by 2025

Kristen Hanich, an analyst with Parks Associates, noted that Microsoft has had some aggressive Game Pass promotions with the goal of bringing more attention and trial users to the offering "Once customers understand the value proposition of this model, many will stay and pay f...

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook Rumble Over Game Streaming Apps

Apple's decision could potentially hurt Microsoft's cloud gaming strategy."Cloud gaming has the potential to shake up the gaming industry's competitive landscape," observed Kristen Hanich, an analyst with Parks Associates "Traditional gaming is device-centric with gaming exper...

Amazon Gives Alexa App a Makeover

"As smart speaker adoption continues to grow, the user base has begun to tilt more towards a less technically adept consumer who is less likely to use the app to create reminders and routines and download new skills and voice apps," observed Kristen Hanich, an analyst with Parks Associates...

US Cloud Gaming Subscriptions Target $3B

"What makes cloud gaming unique is it's one service that you can access on multiple platforms," explained the author of the report, Senior Analyst Kristen Hanich "You can access a game on different devices without being tied to a single platform," she told TechNewsWorld....

Nintendo to Retreat From Mobile Gaming: Report

"Nintendo wasn't able to monetize its mobile games in the way that it wanted to," observed Kristen Hanich, an analyst with Parks Associates, a Dallas market research and consulting company specializing in consumer technology products "In mobile, the freemium business model is ...

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Consumers Like Augmented Reality More Than They Know

The augmented reality space continues to evolve. Device makers such as Bosch, Panasonic, Huawei and Pico are introducing significantly smaller and more powerful smart glasses and AR headsets, such as those demonstrated last month at CES 2020, one of the country's largest consumer technology conferences. ...

Nvidia’s New Shield TV Models Add Dolby Vision, Atmos

"Dolby sound is certainly a selling point to audiophiles," acknowledged Kristen Hanich, senior analyst at Parks Assocates, a Dallas, Texas-based market research and consulting company specializing in consumer technology products "However, not a lot of consumers own home theate...

Consumers Balk at Premium Smartphone Prices

"Parks Associates consumer survey data finds that between 2014 and 2018, the average amount paid by U.S. broadband households on their most-recently purchased smartphone doubled from a mean of $258 to $528," noted Kristen Hanich, senior analyst at Parks Associates In 2013, the...

AI Meets VR in New Nvidia Tech

"Currently, VR content creation is prohibitively costly, and it is difficult to create the kinds of experiences consumers are looking for," explained Kristen Hanich, a research analyst with Dallas, Texas-based Parks Assocates, a market research and consulting company specializing in consumer technology products...

Sonos Welcomes Devs With Open APIs

"We're expecting to see a really huge sales jump in Q3 and Q4 this year," said Kristen Hanich, research analyst at Parks Associates "Certainly, a more capable Sonos One device will help drive sales," she told TechNewsWorld....

Amazon’s DVR Scheme May Be Taking Shape

"A few weeks ago, there was news that Amazon Video would launch on Comcast's Xfinity boxes," said Kristen Hanich, research analyst at Parks Associates "We've also seen that Apple is forming partnerships to act as a streaming media portal, and that is a direction Amazon might b...

The IoT’s Perplexing Security Problems

"IoT security is highly fragmented and many devices are vulnerable," observed Kristen Hanich, research analyst at Parks Associates "There are a large number of devices out there with known weaknesses that can easily be exploited by commonly available attacks," she told the E-...

A Home Robot Could Be Amazon’s Next Gamble

"There's definitely an overlap in the market there," Parks analyst Kristen Hanich told TechNewsWorld, "that Amazon may be going after." ...

Intel’s Smart Peepers Look Smart, Too

"It's a pretty light-touch device," said Kristen Hanich, an analyst at Parks Assocates. "It mostly allows users to see contextual information such as notifications from phones, map directions, recipes, shopping lists and such," she told TechNewsWorld....

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Top 5 Data-Driven Mobile Services for a Competitive Edge

The mobile data market has been approaching saturation in major industrialized nations. Mobile data consumption has increased steadily over the past several years, but consumers have found new ways to avoid paying extra for services they don't need or use -- and intense competition among mobile carriers has allowed consumers to switch from fixed-data to unlimited plans and pay less in the process.

IoT and 5G: New Revenues, Use Cases, Value-added Services

The 5G standards target billions of new devices that will connect to operators' networks over the next decade and beyond. Each device type serves a use case that can be high-volume with low throughput requirements, or low-volume but high-value from a customer's point of view. The list of use cases keeps growing as new types of devices are added to the network, and as existing devices find new use cases with embedded mobile connectivity...

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