Stewart Wolpin, an analyst with market research group Points North, says only 13% of consumers know about the digital switch.
Roger Kay, a computer analyst at market research firm IDC, estimates flat to slightly higher revenue for the total U.S. personal computer market this year.
Matthew Howett, an analyst at market research firm Ovum, said Ofcom's consultation was welcome, but he questioned whether it would help operators launch 4G services quicker.
But that increase was largely artificial, fueled by the up-one-day, down-the-next prices in the computer memory business, says Brian Matas, an analyst with market research firm IC Insights.
Nadejda Popova, senior travel and tourism analyst at market research company Euromonitor International, acknowledged that the ongoing political unrest -- as well as Europe's economic downturn -- had affected Egyptian tourism.
These women, whose buying power has been on the upswing, often faring better than their male counterparts in a down economy, will drive retail purchases, says Marshall Cohen, chief industry analyst with market research firm the NPD Group.
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"Companies in industries from consumer electronics to financial services tell us they're no longer sure Facebook is the best place to dedicate their social marketing budget a shocking fact given the site's dominance among users, " said Nate Elliott, an analyst at market research firm Forrester, in a company blog post on Monday.
But Greg Sterling, a search engine analyst with Sterling Market Research, says that the Lexico deal may be a smarter avenue to gaining users without competing head-on with Google.
Advertisers' migration toward search advertising is partly a result of belt-tightening companies looking for a more measurable and accountable form of marketing, says Greg Sterling, a search market analyst with Sterling Market Research.
Shahar Maor, an information-technology analyst at Israeli market research firm STKI, estimated that compared with large companies associated with defense or critical infrastructure, lower tier Israeli companies hire one-fifth as many information-security employees relative to computer users.
"That's a lot like what Dell does, " says analyst Roger Kay of market research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass.
"Even if they have five machines out of 300, 000 turn out to be defective, it will reflect badly on Microsoft, " says gaming analyst Schelley Olhava of market research firm IDC.
"The influx of data services, coupled with the traditional flexibility and value of no contract plans, has considerably increased consumer interest in the no annual contract wireless market" said John Weber, Associate Research Analyst at IDC.
To retail industry analyst Marshal Cohen of market research firm NPD Group, the greatest advantage for Spanx besides the obvious increase in visibility will be the capacity to road-test new products and categories without having to fight for department store space.
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Greg Sterling, a search analyst and founder of Sterling Market Research sees Google's conflict of interest as a question more of perception than reality.
WebQL likely will be used as a piece of broader, more inclusive business intelligence platforms, according to Dan Vesset, a senior analyst at IDC, a market research firm, in Framingham, Mass.
"It's not going to be the Steve Jobs show that generates headlines worldwide, " John Jackson, an analyst at Boston-based market research firm CCS Insight who attended the keynote, said in a recent interview.
Of those, more than a billion are equipped with cameras, according to Tom Hausken, an analyst at Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm based in Mountain View, California.
"What these banks want is market share, " says Scott Valentin, an equity research analyst at FBR Capital Markets in Virginia.
The investor reaction is probably not the result of BMO Capital research analyst Daniel Salmon having disproportionate power over market players.
"The IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report offers a simple but meaningful explanation of the underlying forces that are driving the never-ending, global bandwidth explosion, " said Brad Smith, senior vice president and industry analyst with LightCounting.com, a market research firm that analyzes and forecasts high-speed interconnects.
"There may be a very different strategy coming out of the White House on health care reform, " Joan Woodward, Washington research analyst with Goldman Sachs, told CNNfn's Market Call.
"Overall market growth in 2010 was exceptional, " said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
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Ezra Gottheil, a senior analyst at Technology Business Research sees Microsoft stepping into a market where its best customers fear to tread after a series of setbacks in the tablet market last year.
Research In Motion shares are trading modestly higher Tuesday morning after Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu raised his rating on the company to Market Perform from Underperform, asserting that the company could now be an acquisition candidate.
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"Microsoft and the hardware vendors seem to have had a hard time positioning these kinds of devices and articulating their value, " says Michael McGuire, principal analyst for mobile computing at Dataquest, a San Jose market research firm.
"That's the market coming to them, " says Kevin Tynan, an analyst at Argus Research.
"It's a rough market to compete, " said Michael Gartenberg, a tech-industry analyst with research firm Gartner Inc.
"EDS is doing the right stuff, but Ijust don't know that the market will give them time, " says Julie Giera, an analyst at Forrester Research.
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