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Enterprise cloud communications service provider Thinking Phone Networks today announced that the Company has been ranked in the Top 10 of the "North American Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications Service Providers Matrix" compiled by leading industry analyst firm ABI Research. The Top 10 Matrix highlights company innovation, service delivery, and enterprise customer loyalty. The inclusion follows Thinking Phone Networks' recent designation by Gartner Inc. as a unified communications...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fidelity National Information Services(R) (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in processing and technology solutions for financial institutions, has been ranked the number-one mobile banking vendor by ABI Research, a global research firm specializing in the analysis and quantitative forecasting of emerging trends in global connectivity. FIS Mobile Banking is a comprehensive two-way mobile banking product and the first industry offering in...

CONYERS, Ga., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (Pink Sheets: GCKO) announced today that their multi-tasking personal robot product, the CareBot(tm) MSR, satisfies the requirements indicated by ABI Research to penetrate this growing marketplace. The report from ABI Research is predicting that by the year 2015, people will probably be willing to spend as much for a multi-tasking humanoid robot as they would for a new car. "Within six years, the personal robot...

The rise of IP-enabled consumer electronics products is fueling increasing demand for browsers and web-based user interfaces in these devices. ABI Research expects the number of web browsers embedded in consumer electronics devices such as digital TVs, game consoles, and set top boxes to grow from 60 million shipped in 2008 to 214 million by 2013. "Most forward-thinking consumer electronics vendors today are integrating IP ports in their mainline consumer electronics devices," says research...

The need for healthy holiday sales in a bear market, competitive pressure from movie download services, and media speculation about the future success of the Blu-ray format itself has resulted in falling Blu-ray player prices across a range of current and older models. Tier 2 players and older models (6-9 months) are now widely available under $200. Amazon is offering a Samsung model bundled with four discs for that price. Holiday season prices may be in the $150-200 range. All of this...

Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences via fixed social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, fully-fledged mobile location-based social networking sites will also gain momentum with more than...

Over the last several years, the market for Wi-Fi chipsets (primary components, not including power amplifiers, LNAs and other external components) has grown from just over $1 billion in 2006, though just over $2 billion in 2007, and is expected to deliver revenue of nearly $3 billion in 2008. According to ABI Research principal analyst Philip Solis, "We expect more than 1 billion chipsets to ship during 2011 alone, while the 2013 opportunity will be more than 1.6 billion units." On the...

2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will welcome the economies of scale that come from creating devices that support both 4G standards. "Some mobile operators are showing interest in dual-mode chipsets," says ABI Research principal analyst Philip...

When it comes to viewing TV and video, growth in consumer markets is more limited by consumers' ability to absorb new usage models and new applications than by limitations of technology, according to a new US consumer survey from ABI Research. "The willingness to adopt new forms of entertainment delivery is in many cases determined by the age of the consumer," says ABI Research principal analyst Steve Wilson. "That means that market growth is simply a matter of time." The online survey,...

Network Attached Storage, or NAS, is slowly finding its way into homes as consumers look for convenient ways to back up their growing libraries of digital media. While backup is the primary focus for many, the ability to serve media around the home using a centralized storage device is also a key focus for many vendors in this market. "The widespread popularity of direct attached storage such as USB hard drives is a testament to the growing realization among many consumers that backup is a...