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March LCD Panel Prices

2010.03.02

According to Witsview, panel prices in the second half of February were:

LCD TV

26-inch 1366×768: $150
32-inch 1366×768: $203
42-inch 1920×1080: $340
46-inch 1920×1080: $435

LCD Monitor

17-inch 1280×1024: $80
18.5-inch 1366×768: $78
19-inch 1440×900: $82
22-inch 1680×1050: $102

Notebook PC

10.1-inch 1024×600 LED: $34
14.0-inch 1366×768 LED: $56
15.6-inch 1366×768 LED: $60

LCD panel expected price changes in the first half of March compared to February:

LCD monitor panels: Up [...]

North America Web Consumption: OS X Growing

2010.02.27

Quantcast, a web statistics company, announced January results: 86.8% of web consumption is via Windows; just 10.9% is by OS X. Sounds like your regular market share story with Windows dominating, but dig a little and you get a different story.
OS X grew 7.0% M/M, 5.2% Q/Q and 29.4% Y/Y in January 2010. Windows, on [...]

China: 40 Million 3G Mobile Phones in 2010

2010.02.24

Topology Research Institute, a Taiwan-based market research firm, expects 3G mobile phones to top 40 million units in China for 2010. China’s 3G technology is called TD-SCDMA and the total number of 3G service subscribers will balloon to 71 million by the end of 2010. No doubt China will soon become the largest market for [...]

US Smartphone Market: Apple & Google Grow, Others Don’t

2010.02.10

On February 8, comScore released reported on smartphone trends in the US. In Q4′09, Apple and Google grew in market share while RIM, Microsoft and Palm didn’t. Apple increased its market share from 24.1% to 25.3%, while Google more than doubled from 2.5% to 5.2%. The top smartphone platform in the US is still RIM [...]

Cell Phone: Health Hazard?

2010.02.05

Christopher Ketcham in Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health writes about damning evidence suggesting your cell phone may cause brain damage:
Though the scientific debate is heated and far from resolved, there are multiple reports, mostly out of Europe’s premier research institutions, of cell-phone and PDA use being linked to “brain aging,” [...]

Apple iPhone #3 in 2009

2010.02.05

According to IDC’s Apple shipped an estimated 25.1 million iPhones in 2009, a significant increase from 13.8 million in 2008. In the last calendar quarter of 2009 Apple sold a record 8.7 million iPhones. In 2009 Apple’s share of the “Worldwide Converged Mobile Device Market” was 14.4% in the #3 spot. That’s quite a bit [...]

The Publishing Industry is Changing

2010.02.05

Charles Stross, in Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider’s guide to the fight, lays out in very clear terms what in the world is going on with Amazon and Macmillan. There is a new player in town (Apple’s iPad) and Steve Jobs is offering an agency model that will collapse the publishing industry’s supply chain resulting in [...]

NPD E-Reader Survey: 93% Happy

2010.02.04

NPD Group surveyed more than 1000 e-reader owners and asked them how satisfied they were. The result? 93% were “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied”. Only 2% “expressed any level of dissatisfaction.” 60% considered wireless access to the favorite feature; 23% considered the touch feature to be the favorite. And only 34% wanted color screens. This [...]

Mac Corners Premium Market

2010.02.01

NPD shows 90% of computers priced ≥US$1000 in Q4′09 were Macs. This could be taken either way. If a lot of brands have a lot of models competing in the ≥$1000 market segment, then certainly kudos to Apple for doing a fantastic job. But, if there are few brands and even fewer models in that [...]

Database: Display Manufacturers

2009.12.08

I’ve added another list to DATABASES called Display Manufacturers. Click on the DATABASES menu item and it is right there underneath IPS LCD Monitors. I thoroughly combed the Internet to find out as many display manufacturers as I can. In the future I will be adding display manufacturer-specific information on a manufacturer by manufacturer basis. [...]


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