By 2006, 21 million Americans will be satellite subscribers, estimates the Yankee Group.
In 2003, there were twice as many cable Internet subscribers in the U.S. as DSL subscribers, according to the Yankee Group.
"Consumers will want an entryway into the Internet from their mobile phone, " observes Jill Adloft, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group.
"It's going to put an undue administrative burden on customers to make upgrades to their software, " says Gene Signorini, research director at the Yankee Group.
Emily Green formerly the CEO of tech research firm The Yankee Group and CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates is now the CEO of SmartLunches.
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But by 2003, about a third of all kids between the ages of 11 and 17 owned their own cellular phone, according to the Yankee Group.
Market research firm The Yankee Group predicts that 30 percent of all cell phones sold in the U.S. this year will be equipped with a Web browser.
"The trick will be surviving until a big market emerges for all the things these guys want to sell, " says analyst Joanna Makris of the Yankee Group.
By the end of this year, half of all children between the age of 11 or 17 will have their own phone, according to the Yankee Group.
"The trick will be surviving until a big market emerges for all the things these guys want to sell, " says Joanna Makris, an analyst with the Yankee Group.
The complaints come as the market for mobile, Internet-connected apps in the United States has grown to 40 apps per user per year, according to the Yankee Group.
Mr. MICHAEL GOODMAN (Analyst, The Yankee Group): There's a lifetime value of that PS2 customer, and you're making money off of them, you're making royalty payments off of them.
Recent interviews with users, carried out by the Yankee Group Europe, a telecoms consultancy, revealed widespread cynicism about global alliances--and an increasing interest in using companies such as Equant.
Only 29% of kids have phones capable of running those programs right now, according to the Yankee Group, but 11% of teens use them--nearly 40% of the potential user base.
The Yankee Group published a study that projects App Store revenue through 2016 and determined that a quarter of U.S. consumers used the App Store in the last quarter of 2012.
According to the Yankee Group, more than half of all teens between the ages of 13 and 17 are active users of wireless text messaging, sending blurbs using the "SMS" short message service.
But despite its strengths and its reputation with its customers, Jennifer Pigg, an analyst with the Yankee Group, a high-tech consultancy, reckons that the lack of a recognised brand could hold Equant back.
"If Apple gets this supported, it has a shot at rising like a phoenix from the ashes in the world of multimedia computing, " says Steven Vonder Haar, a media analyst with the Yankee Group.
Darryl Sterling, an analyst at the Yankee Group, a telecom consulting firm in Boston, expects the December auction to draw some interest from big carriers seeking to fill in gaps in national coverage or lesser ones trying to expand in small markets.
Because the online fashion show featured supermodels and the company paid for an expensive ad placement during the Super Bowl game, Victoria's Secret "had to expect a significant amount of traffic, " said Melissa Bain, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston.
The Yankee Group, another technology consultancy, earlier this year questioned 250 large and medium-sized American companies across a broad range of industries about their views on e-business, and found that 58% of corporate decision makers considered the web to be important or very important to their business strategy.
They show a philosopher so unfamiliar with the state of the Internet and the kind of research into usage produced by analysts such as Gartner, Forrester Research, the Yankee Group, the Pew Research Center, Jakob Nielsen or Ethan Zuckerman, that he takes these claims as givens, not as claims requiring amplification, clarification, and examination.
Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.
According to the Boston-based Yankee Group consulting firm, nearly 9 million households will play online games by the year 2000.
Rivera, shortstop Derek Jeter, starting pitcher Andy Pettitte and since-retired catcher Jorge Posada formed the "Core Four, " a group of home-grown players that powered the modern Yankee dynasty.
But the Nexus 7000 really gets interesting, says Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala, when it's combined with another revolutionary IT innovation: virtualization.
"You have to understand that the timeline for European legislation is very long, and the market has moved on faster than the commission can act, " Susen Sarkar, senior analyst at Yankee Group Europe, told IDG.
According to communications research firm Yankee Group, there were 130, 000 VoIP subscribers in the U.S. last year.
The problem with total cost of ownership (TCO) numbers, says Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone, is that they often mean very little.
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