Business Week just published a list of the most important applications (most used) of the web in 2010.
Application Traffic share
Category
1-Data 28.1%
2-Online video 26.2%
3-P2P File sharing 24.9%
4-Other file sharing 18.7%
5-Voice and video 1.7%
communications
6-PC Gaming 0.7%
7-E-mail and Instant 0.3%
Messaging
8-Gaming Consoles 0.2%
It appears that streaming video (both TV and movies) has surpassed peer-to-peer sharing (which are mostly pirated files), and will become the largest volume of video traffic on the Web, according to Cisco Systems.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
A blog on the convergence of info-communications industries: communications, computing, electronics, entertainment, publications and education. Strategic, technological and financial analysis. English and French blog. Cette chronique traite de l’évolution des industries de l’information et des communications et couvre des aspects stratégiques, technologiques et financiers, comme l’économie du savoir et de l’innovation. L’auteur est Associé principal de Infocom Intelligence.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
The most popular comments of 2010 of the blog
These are the 10 most popular comments of this blog in 2010:
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Friday, December 24, 2010
The growth of ebooks
There is a rumour recently that Amazon sold around 8 million Kindle (e-book readers) in 2010. It is the most popular e-reader on the market. With the launch of the iPad 2 and the Blackberry Playbook that may come in Q1-2011, digital books will surge quickly. There is also a new trend towards the selling of chapters of books separately from entire e-books. Prices of those devices dropped significantly recently.
AAP Reports Book Sales Estimated at $23.9 Billion in 2009
The Association of American Publishers estimates that U.S. publishers had net sales of $23.9 billion in 2009, down from $24.3 billion in 2008, representing a 1.8% decrease. In the last seven years the industry had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.1%.
Trade sales of adult and juvenile books were steady at $8.1 billion in 2009, CAGR fell to 1.8 percent. Adult Hardbound books showed healthy growth of 6.9%, $2.6 billion in 2009, however paperbound books for adult fell 5.2% to $2.2 billion. Hardbound books in the children and young adult category fell 5.0% to $1.7 billion while their paperbound equivalent grew 2.2% to $1.5 billion.
Over the period covered by the estimated data, the CAGR for hardbound books was 1.3% for adult books and 0.6% for juvenile. Paperbound books grew 2.6% and 2.7% over the 7 years.
Mass Market paperbacks decreased 4.0% and brought the category CAGR to -2.2%. Total sales were $1.0 billion in 2009. Book clubs and mail-order fell to $588 million, a fall of 2.0%.
Audio book sales for 2009 totaled $192 million, down 12.9% on the prior year, CAGR for this category is still healthy at 4.3%. E-books overtook audiobooks in 2009 with sales reaching $313 million in 2009, up 176.6%.
Key US publishing Industry Statistics (estimates)
Key Industry Figures | 2009 | |
Industry Revenue | *30,309.8 | $Mil |
Revenue Growth | *.1 | % |
Industry Gross Product | *5,800.8 | $Mil |
Number of Establishments | *2,855 | Units |
Number of Enterprises | *2,758 | Units |
Employment | *92,264 | Units |
Exports | *2,424.2 | $Mil |
Imports | *1,941.2 | $Mil |
Total Wages | *5,012.7 | $Mil |
E-book US Sales
2009 Annual growth 2002-2009 Compound Growth Rate
$313,167 176.6% 71.0%
Amazon announced a new generation of the Kindle on July 28, 2010. While Amazon does not officially add numbers to the end of each Kindle denoting its generation, most reviewers, customers and press companies refer to this updated Kindle as the "Kindle 3".
The Kindle 3 is available in two versions. One of these, the Kindle Wi-Fi, is initially priced at US$139, and connects to the Internet exclusively via public or private Wi-Fi networks. The other version, considered a replacement to the Kindle 2, is priced at US$189 and includes both 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Thus, ebook readers are becoming more affordable, and with the mobile Internet it is easier to buy ebooks.
Estimated U.S. consumer e-book purchases in 2010: 8 million
Estimated U.S. consumer e-book purchases in 2009: 3 million
Number of downloads of public library e-books and other virtual library content in 2009: 19 million
Number of downloads 2003-2008: 10 million
Increase in new users in 2009 from 2008: 36 percent
Source: http://www.publishingtrends.com/2008/10/second-annual-industry-survey/
Ebook reading devices sales projections – huge potential
2009 : 4 million devices
2010: 12 million devices
2012: 18 million devices
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
7 trends affecting business mobility in 2011
Yankee Group proposes 7 trends affecting business mobility in 2011, based on a US survey.
1. Mobility becomes critical for customer responsiveness
Mainly for
2. Mobile professionals drive mobility forward
Can be categorized in three segments:
Individually Liable Purchases Will Continue to Influence Mobile Device Decisions (58%)
3. Enterprises embrace consumerization of mobility
For 44% of firms mobility is perceived as a good way to improve employees productivity
4. Smartphone diversity explodes
Among the leaders:
iPhone and Android have momentum.
5. Mobile applications fragment beyond e-mail
6. Cloud and mobility collide
7. 4G emerges, but slowly
More managers understand what 4G is and how important it is to enhance productivity of employees.
Conclusion
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
1. Mobility becomes critical for customer responsiveness
Mainly for
- Improving customer responsiveness (52%),
- Providing mobile access to existing applications to improve worker productivity (44%)
- Transforming business processes to improve operational efficiencies (28%)
- Providing mobile technologies to improve employees' work-life balance (19%)
- Fostering collaboration with customers and partners (18%)
- Fostering worker-to-worker collaboration (14%)
- Supporting employee-purchased mobile devices for business purposes (9%)
2. Mobile professionals drive mobility forward
Can be categorized in three segments:
- Mobile professionals (46%), Senior executives, managers, consultants, other knowledge staff, admin.
- Field Force (36%), Field salesforce, field service
- Specialty/other (17%), delivery personnel, drivers, factory staff, physicians.
Individually Liable Purchases Will Continue to Influence Mobile Device Decisions (58%)
3. Enterprises embrace consumerization of mobility
For 44% of firms mobility is perceived as a good way to improve employees productivity
4. Smartphone diversity explodes
Among the leaders:
- Blackberry OS
- iPhone
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- Palm OS
- Symbian
iPhone and Android have momentum.
5. Mobile applications fragment beyond e-mail
6. Cloud and mobility collide
7. 4G emerges, but slowly
More managers understand what 4G is and how important it is to enhance productivity of employees.
Conclusion
- It is important for organisations to make a mobility map
- In smartphones, consumer vs business is blurring.
- 4G solutions will be more important than the 4G technology.
- Cloud for mobile applications will surge a lot in 2011.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Monday, December 13, 2010
Some key statistics on mobile growth
MobileFuture a US wireless industry group published this videos providing key stats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6mCkbrYKQyI
In less than 3 minutes, it shows interesting exponential growth in traffic and the downloading of apps. For instance, mobile apps downloads jumped from 300 million in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6mCkbrYKQyI
In less than 3 minutes, it shows interesting exponential growth in traffic and the downloading of apps. For instance, mobile apps downloads jumped from 300 million in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
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