Sunday, December 26, 2010

The most important applications of the Internet

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

The most popular comments of 2010 of the blog

These are the 10 most popular comments of this blog in 2010:



Voici les 10 commentaires les plus populaire de ce blogue en 2010:

Nov 8, 2010

Nov 15, 2010, 2 commentaires

Apr 11, 2010, 2 commentaires

Oct 27, 2010

#5
Nov 24, 2010


#6
Oct 17, 2010





Dec 7, 2010






Nov 7, 2010




Dec 24, 2010

#10 Native applications versus mobile browsing popularity

NOVEMBER 13, 2010


Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com 


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

  1. Improving customer responsiveness (52%), 
  2. Providing mobile access to existing applications to improve worker productivity (44%)
  3. Transforming business processes to improve operational efficiencies (28%)
  4. Providing mobile technologies to improve employees' work-life balance (19%) 
  5. Fostering collaboration with customers and partners (18%)
  6. Fostering worker-to-worker collaboration (14%)
  7. Supporting employee-purchased mobile devices for business purposes (9%)


2. Mobile professionals drive mobility forward

Can be categorized in three segments:

  1. Mobile professionals (46%), Senior executives, managers, consultants, other knowledge staff, admin. 
  2. Field Force (36%), Field salesforce, field service
  3. 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:

  1. Blackberry OS
  2. iPhone
  3. Windows Mobile
  4. Android
  5. Palm OS
  6. 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