The Alternative Payment Systems Industry in the U.S.
Online shopping, peer-to-peer connections and safer, more secure online services are the fundamentals driving the growth of consumer online alternative payments in the United States. In this all-new...
View ArticleContent Delivery Networks (CDNs): A Detailed Analysis of Different Architectures
Content delivery network (CDNs) are intended to distribute bandwidth-intensive content like internet video over the internet. Popular services like hulu and BBC iPlayer used CDNs to distribute their...
View ArticleP2P: Damn This Traffic Jam
P2P is a burden to ISPs today. Within the next 5 years, it will become a leading content distribution technology for very large file-sharing applications (notably video) as well as smaller files and...
View ArticlePeer to Peer (P2P) Networks: The State of the Art
This report is about the emergence of a new class of P2P technology that is being used to legitimately distribute digital content to users on a mass scale. The main purpose of the report is to clearly...
View ArticleZattoo: an Internet TV case study
Using its own P2P distribution technology, Zattoo provides ad-supported feeds of linear free-to-air broadcast channels to users’ PCs. Its no-frills approach to Internet TV presents a welcome change...
View ArticlePacket Sniffing: Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality
The greedy nature of many Internet-based applications and the over-subscription model of the Internet poses challenges to network operators and regulators as they strive to maintain Internet freedoms...
View ArticleVUDU Attempts to Spark Interest with Select Movie Downloads for Just $0.99...
VUDU is trying to generate buzz by offering 99 movies for just $0.99 each. With a high price for the equipment, VUDU will be hard-pressed to survive in this increasingly competitive digital home...
View ArticleJoost Changes Logs Midstream, Drops Client in Favour of Browser Plug-In...
Joost will cease development of its client application and offer a browser plug-in instead. Joost has been shunned by movie makers and it has suffered at the hands of services provided by content...
View ArticleThe 2009-2014 World Outlook for Peer-To-Peer VoIP Software
This econometric study covers the world outlook for peer-to-peer VoIP software across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry...
View ArticleVUDU Launches a New High-definition Format Called HDX: Creating Added Value...
VUDU tried to gain market relevance via the high-definition craze by developing a new format called HDX. Close to Blu-ray quality, HDX seeks to lure high-end digital home consumers to buy VUDU boxes...
View ArticleP2P Lending: For Profit or Paying It Forward?
This Financial Insights Perspective provides the FinSights Advisor's weekly perspective on the financial services industry. It provides financial institutions with timely guidance about maximizing...
View ArticleCanadian Partner-to-Partner Networking 2008 Vendor Analysis: The Shaping of...
This IDC study provides a perspective on IT vendor activity in supporting and harnessing partner-to-partner (P2P) networks. Its purpose is to provide a context for industry activity in Canada around...
View ArticleContent Delivery Networks (CDN) (Market Advisor)
The growing cadre of telcos punctuating the CDN market brings a new dimension to the competitive field, and Global Crossing, with its dual partner entry, could spark a real challenge on the...
View ArticleMobile Banking and Beyond
This Financial Insights report presents some of the most innovative and impressive mobile banking services available in Asia. Mobile banking and payments have faced their fair share of hurdles since...
View ArticleThe 2009 Report on Peer-To-Peer VoIP Software: World Market Segmentation by City
This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a “borderless world”, cities become a more important...
View ArticleAdopting Digital Rights Information Management
The battle between digital entertainment content protection and content usage has been heating up. Copy protection, watermarks, digital fingerprinting, and conditional access are all technologies used...
View ArticleCommercial Payment Cards: The U.S. and Global Markets and Trends, 6th Edition
The commercial payment card market has undergone a transformation in recent years as the associations and issuers strive to convince companies of the various benefits. Once a fairly simple market...
View ArticleSMS and the Internet: Market Trends in Mobile Messaging
In the European mobile markets, SMS is faced with twin challenges: first, the onset of maturity, as adoption plateaus and prices decline; and, second, the start of mass-market adoption of Internet...
View ArticleOversi Private Vendor Watchlist Profile: Delivering High-Performance Internet...
This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Oversi, a company playing in the Internet video and P2P caching market, and reviews key success factors: market potential, technology/solution, corporate strategy,...
View ArticlePeer-to-peer Location-based Mobile Services: Local Social Mobile Applications...
The marketplace is booming with mobile local social applications leveraging peer-to-peer location-based technologies. Many of the companies carving out their niche in mobile social have not presented a...
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