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On Tuesday, May 21, Microsoft raised the curtain on its first new gaming console in nearly seven years: the Xbox One.…
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With the continued miniaturization of technology, the rise of flexible software frameworks, and the growing interest in technologies such as biomonitoring…
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The smart TV market will grow from 67 million units shipped in 2012 to 134 million shipped in 2015. As it…
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The console era is over — or so a growing number of game-industry executives would have us believe. While social and…
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Given how CES is now a barometer for such a wide array of technology segments, we at GigaOM Research decided to…
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Many of the biggest stories in the connected consumer space occurred mostly offstage in 2012. Apple conducted behind-the-scenes discussions about rolling…
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Workplaces are changing because of trends like BYOD and gamification. But other emerging technologies are also altering not only what our…
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Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their…
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A new category of digital media has emerged in the living room: social TV. This relatively new concept can be defined…
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Living room platform environments will change dramatically over the next few years. While the installed base and near-term opportunities are dominated…
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The Internet is expanding the amount of available content at almost incomprehensible rates, but the difficulty of navigating through all of…
Read MoreThe living room reinvented: trends, technologies and companies to watch
The adoption of tablets, social media and new interfaces and the changing nature of the TV itself mean the digital living…
Read MoreFuture prospects for the set-top box
Set-top box shipments will climb past 135 million in 2012 and will clear 150 million by 2015, according to iSuppli, which…
Read MoreThe quantified self: hacking the body for better health and performance
More work on data policies and ownership may be important in the coming years as the movement takes off. As insights…
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The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape…
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Big data continues to offer more and more opportunity for businesses. By analyzing the information already in an organization, executives can…
Read MoreCES 2012: a recap and analysis
This year’s CES was the biggest in the show’s 44-year history, boasting 15 miles of exhibit hall aisles, 3,100 booths and…
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The digital living room was also the scene of a lot of activity in the fourth quarter. Microsoft rolled out a…
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Call it the year of lessons learned, if not quite bubbles burst. In 2011, several trends in the connected consumer space…
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The newfound popularity of the e-book is now raising questions over what exactly it will look like in the future, since…
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The growth of the Internet of things is likely to open new disruptive business opportunities for services that add value to…
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