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.

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Carl Howe, vice president of research at Yankee Group, a Boston-based research and advisory firm focusing on mobile technology, says a significant advantage for Apple is that it convinced automakers to add a button for its interface into their vehicles.

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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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According to communications research firm Yankee Group, there were 130, 000 VoIP subscribers in the U.S. last year.

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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.

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"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.

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