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Cheat Sheet While analyst house ABI Research notes that AR technology has been with us for more than 15 years, the company is predicting dramatic growth in the take-up of the tech over the next five years - driven... [27 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News Augmented reality - the process of superimposing digital information or objects onto real-time video streams in order to create the illusion that they are part of the physical scene - will be pulling in revenues of more than $350m by... [26 Oct 2009]
Cisco wireless LAN: At risk from 'skyjack' attack
News Cisco has 65 per cent to 70 per cent of the install base for wireless LANs, according to Stan Schatt, security practice director at ABI Research. Cisco Systems wireless local area network equipment used... [25 Aug 2009]
Businesses set to show fixed mobile convergence some love - finally
News However, according to analysts ABI Research, adoption is set to grow at a significant pace - a compound annual growth rate of 27 per cent up to 2014. According to ABI, handset voice... [04 Aug 2009]
Euro millions roll over for mobile banking
News Mobile commerce is already worth a considerable sum: according to a separate report by ABI Research, mobile commerce transactions, excluding those made through NFC, will be worth $1.6bn this year. Mobile... [13 Mar 2009]
O2 arrives at the laptop party - at last
News A recent report by analyst house ABI Research predicts worldwide netbook shipments will rise to 139 million in 2013, up from almost 35 million in 2009 - an increase of nearly 400 per cent. O2 has... [11 Feb 2009]
War of 300 million devices will be won on software
News A recent report by analyst house ABI Research forecasts netbook shipments will rise to 139 million in 2013, up from almost 35 million in 2009 - an increase of nearly 400 per cent. ABI... [02 Feb 2009]
Don't expect a UK LTE network before 2011
News According to analysts ABI Research, multimode WiMax/LTE chipsets will be available from 2009 and, by 2013 the researchers believe 32 million consumers will be signed up to the networks. LTE (Long Term... [25 Nov 2008]
Smartphones prepare to conquer the web
News A report from ABI Research predicts that the number of smartphones with highly capable mobile browsers will grow from 130 million today to more than 530 million by 2013. The increase in awareness of the... [14 Nov 2008]
Providing a Linux API on the Scalable K42 Kernel
White Paper The paper examines the lessons learned of what was advantageous and what was disadvantageous from K42 in implementing the Linux API and ABI. K42 is an open-source research kernel targeted for 64-bit... [01 Oct 2008]
Apple "niche player" in touchscreen world
News According to a report from analysts ABI Research, Samsung and Motorola are the leaders of the pack in touchscreen mobiles, holding 33 per cent and 30 per cent of the market respectively. All the other... [10 Sep 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News ABI Research's principal analyst Dominique Bonte said business applications of LBS, such as asset and vehicle tracking and workforce management, will become an important revenue generator for carriers in... [17 Jul 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News Despite femtocells' current low profile on the consumer radar, the survey - conducted by ABI Research for mobile operator Motorola - found significant appetite for the tech once the great unwashed are... [23 Jun 2008]
'iPhone effect' ripples through smart phone market
News Among the features likely to proliferate in terms of enhancing user interface experiences include touchscreens, touchpads and accelerometers allowing tilt and shock sensing, as well as haptics for providing tactile feedback, according to... [25 Mar 2008]
GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame
News The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for GPS receiver chips, with one billion chips now forecast to ship annually by 2013, says analyst house ABI Research.... [20 Mar 2008]
