Cisco recently unveiled its Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, a rather long-winded title for a white paper. But don’t let its wordy head mislead you. Within its pages are some giddying data, forecasts, and conclusions that can send any geek’s heart to Nirvana, or something that resembles it in the geek world.
Anyway, according to Cisco, there were 36 million tablets connected to the mobile network in 2012. This figure was 2.5 times larger than that of the previous year. Data also revealed that each tablet generated 2.4 times more traffic than your average smartphone.
Along with this increase in number of connected mobile devices, mobile Internet traffic worldwide also increased 70 percent in 2012, almost double that of the previous year. Currently, mobile Internet traffic is 12 times bigger than the whole Internet worldwide way back in 2000.
Another noteworthy thing, mobile video grew 50 percent, accounting for almost 51 percent of mobile traffic, in 2012. In fact, Cisco thinks video will account for two-thirds of global mobile data traffic by 2017.
HTC Lives
Contrary to the pronouncements made by some prophets of doom who were apparently gleefully predicting HTC’s imminent demise, the handset vendor appears to have lots of energy yet. One day, the tech company might even have the last laugh too.
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| HTC's strong lineup of smartphones helped the company grabbed 3rd place in the US smartphone market. |
Data from comScore revealed HTC came in third behind Apple and Samsung on the market research firm’s list of top smartphone original equipment manufacturers in the United States for the quarter ending December 2012. Apple grabbed the largest share of the market at 36.3 percent. Samsung was next with 21 percent.
HTC accounted for more than one out of every 10 smartphones, which was good enough for third place.
This piece of information and other fact-based reports should help IT writers and columnists from letting their biases color their comments or cloud their perceptions of the market.
iTunes Reaches 25B Downloads
Apple’s iTunes said it has sold more than 25 billion songs sometime last week.
That would mean the Cupertino company’s online music store has sold the equivalent of more or less three songs for every human inhabitants of the planet. So, where are my digital copies of my three favorite novelty songs?
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| Apple says its iTunes online store has sold 25 billion songs. |
Kidding aside, this is one serious milepost for the digital music industry. It also shows everybody who’s the real boss in the music industry.
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