Itfacts

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Last activity: 14.04.2009

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Sep 12, 2007	Mediaphy introduces chip for streaming mobile TV	If you’ve been waiting for technology that lets you watch streaming digital broadcast television programming on your phone, MediaPhy has some good news. The San Jose semiconductor company is announcing a new chip that it says can be used to...
Apr 27, 2005	One-Third Of All Companies Wasting Money On Email Monitoring	While studies have shown that spying on workers tends to make them less productive, that hasn’t stopped approximately 1/3 of all US companies from employing email monitoring tools. 43% of those companies employ staff to check outgoing email...
Apr 20, 2005	Can eBay Auction Off Its Laurels?	The luster on eBay continues to fade. As mentioned in Bambi Francisco’s pessimistic long view on eBay, eBay’s traffic has been on the decline for 9 consecutive months, according to ComScore. EBay is in a tough spot. Tough competitors lie in...
Apr 18, 2005	Chinese Theater Improvements Work — Big Box Office Increase	Last month, we noted that the movie industry in the US might want to steal a few pages from the playbook of the Chinese movie industry. While the American movie studios whine and complain that they’ll never get people to come to the movies,...
Apr 15, 2005	E-Filers Not Worried About Security	It appears that all of the various security breaches getting publicity recently haven’t scared away people from e-filing. It turns out the number one reason people aren’t e-filing their tax returns this year is that difficulty in doing e-fi...
Apr 11, 2005	Shocker: More People Prefer Online Car Sales To Dealing With Dealers	Can you possibly imagine that people wouldn’t like going in to car dealers and buying cars from a profession that seems to be defined by its own sleaze? Indeed, it appears that the less sleaze-inducing internet route for buying cars is pick...
Apr 6, 2005	Groceries Online Catching On In NYC	The online grocery market has certainly gone through its share of ups and downs. However, over the past few years there have been a bunch of stories about a next generation of online grocery stores that seem to be getting more traction. One...
Mar 17, 2005	Misleading With Statistics On Copy Protection	This one is just bizarre. In a recent study, about copy protection, a research firm is claiming that “consumers are not overwhelmingly antagonistic” towards copy protection. Even if this was true, it wouldn’t prove that copy protection is g...
Mar 15, 2005	DVR Owners Devour All Types Of Media	It turns out that DVR owners seem to live off of media. While it’s not all that surprising that they’d watch more TV, they also spend more time reading the newspaper, reading magazines and surfing the internet than the average non-DVR owner...
Feb 8, 2005	Landlines? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Landlines!	The landline telephone is dying. While it’s still a small percentage of the overall, there’s been quite a bit of growth in the number of homes with no landline in the US. It seems that people are realizing they can get their internet access...
Feb 4, 2005	Nationwide WiMax: $3 Billion	According to a new study, it would cost someone approximately $3 billion in equipment, towers and “ancillary costs” to deploy nationwide WiMax in the US. It’s not clear what’s included in those ancillary costs and whether or not the cost of...
Feb 2, 2005	41% Of People Forget To Send In Rebate Coupons	This probably won’t surprise many people, but the reason why all of those “rebate” programs work is because lots of people never even bother to send in the rebate information to get their money back. So, they buy based on the lowered “rebat...
Jan 26, 2005	Americans Yak It Up On Mobile Phones	Sure, those in Europe and Asia may be more likely to use text messaging and other features of their mobile phones, but you certainly can’t shut up us Americans. We spent an average of 619 minutes per month chatting away on our mobiles (than...
Jan 11, 2005	Cellular Modem Market Growth	Well, it’s easy to cite huge growth numbers when you’re starting from a very, very small number. So, that’s about the way we should probably take the news that the cellular modem market has grown 167% in the last year. It’s still a pretty s...
Jan 6, 2005	Customer Support Emails? We're Supposed To Respond To Them?	Who really needs customers after all? Apparently, plenty of companies online have no problem ignoring them. A new study has found that 15% of companies do not respond to customers’ e-mails at all. Another 14% only respond partially, and ple...
Dec 17, 2004	MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In Fact They're Barely For Kids	The common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person’s technology. It’s the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the MP3 generation, after all, so they’d be the most likely to own an MP3 player, right? Not at all, app...
Nov 19, 2004	Monday Morning E-Shopping	Apparently, the biggest day to shop online is Monday. While this might just be because people don’t want to get back to work on Monday, the study concludes it’s because people go to actual stores all weekend, and then hit the web Monday mor...
Nov 16, 2004	Marketers Love Spam	Wondering why you get so much spam from both fraudulent spammers and legitimate companies? This will surprise absolutely no one, but it’s because the ROI makes it worthwhile. The response rate comes in sixth, well behind many other forms of...
Nov 10, 2004	ARPU Shrinking… Shrinking… Shrinking…	The Yankee Group, as these analyst groups are known to do, has gone out on the the limb we call “obvious” by suggesting that wireless carriers will face decreasing average revenue per user over the next few years. Of course, this is the sor...
Nov 8, 2004	Maybe Not Everyone Wants A DVR	For years, people have been saying that those who don’t have TiVos just don’t understand them — because everyone who does would never want to give it up. Well, perhaps that’s not entirely true. A study done by Disney, where they gave a bunc...
Oct 31, 2004	Venture Investing Slows Down A Bit	Earlier this year VCs were whining that they had too much competition, as it looked like the big name VCs couldn’t just waltz in and get the deals they wanted without competition from some of the peskier smaller VC firms. So, it should make...
Oct 20, 2004	Did Anyone Not Bail Out Of Silicon Valley?	These numbers seem somewhat surprising. While it was clear that a lot of people bailed out on Silicon Valley or moved on to non-techie jobs after the bubble burst, it’s still shocking to learn that more than half of Silicon Valley workers l...
Oct 19, 2004	Howard Stern Credited For 69K New Sirius Subscribers	Sirius is claiming that the announcement that Howard Stern would be joining their programming ranks has helped them sign up 69,000 new subscribers, pushing their total subscribers over 700,000 (still well below XM). Of course, those 69,000 ...
Sep 27, 2004	Not That Much Interest In Mobile TV	The last time I questioned whether or not anyone would actually be interested in mobile TV, I started receiving angry emails from people all over the world who apparently do want their mobile TV. It just strikes me as the wrong type of appl...
Sep 27, 2004	PalmSource Finally Shows Its Smartphone OS	Took ’em long enough. While just about everyone has known that the future of the PDA market was in smartphones, the folks at PalmOne and PalmSource have been twiddling their thumbs — often giving lipservice to the idea, but seemingly unable...
Sep 17, 2004	People Still Like CDs	While the recording industry continues to insist that music downloading is destroying their business, there’s even more evidence that this simply isn’t true. From ITFacts.biz, we learn that 92% of people surveyed still prefer their music on...
Aug 17, 2004	Meet Pixo – The iPod OS Designer	ITFacts writes “Stories about companies contributing to the success of Apple iPod seem to occupy at least one technology page in the newspapers lately. Perhaps it has to do with PortalPlayer’s IPO, the company provided chips for Taiwanese m...

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