Research firm Parks Associates says 69% of U.S. smartphone users know little about LTE, an acronym for Long Term Evolution.
According to Parks Associates, more than 60 percent of home audio products are expected to come with embedded network capabilities by 2016.
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"With 60 million unique visitors on a monthly basis, they have a lot of eyeballs to monetize, " says Parks Associates analyst Michael Cai.
And Kurt Scherf, an analyst at Parks Associates, used the example of an animated TV series about a futuristic family to explain why it hasn't taken off.
According to Parks Associates, 40 percent of U.S. broadband households and 38 percent of Western European broadband households have a DVR (Parks Associates: The Consumer Perspective 2009).
In American prime-time television, advertising interruptions added up to 18 minutes an hour last year, up from 13 minutes an hour in 1992, according to Parks Associates.
And while the raw number of homes adopting some type of security has increased, the rate of adoption has slowed, explains Parks Associates chief executive Tricia Parks .
"The home network market has been static for a few years now, with the focus primarily going to 'speeds and feeds, '" said Patrice Samuels, research analyst at Parks Associates.
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Last month Parks Associates forecast that revenues in the social gaming market will increase five-fold from 2010 to 2015, due in large part to advertising and sales of virtual items.
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In the US, by contrast, two separate reports by In-Stat US and Parks Associates concluded that only one in eight consumers was interested in paying for live TV or video content on mobile platforms.
According to a 2010 survey by Parks Associates, more than 50 percent of Americans with Internet service look to their broadband provider as their first or second choice in solving their home computer-related technical issues.
"Less than half of U.S. mobile phone users are highly satisfied with the storage of their mobile phone, and almost 20% are dissatisfied with their mobile storage capacity, " said Brett Sappington, Director of Research at Parks Associates.
"Powerline networking between modems and set-top boxes is being used today by many broadband service providers to reduce capital expenses and support costs associated with delivering new triple play and IPTV services, " said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates.
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But Apple or no Apple, Google or no Google, CES still has a firm grip on driving the year's consumer technology trends and is worth the attention it gets, said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates, a research group.
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