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Wearable growth slowed — but not stopped — by pandemic

Growth in the wearable sector has taken a hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to other hardware categories like smartphones and PCs, however, the space actually fared reasonably well. According

ABI Research predicts no more night vision for vehicles

Technology market analysts at ABI Research predict that advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are going to be big business in the next decade — to the tune of $132 billion. But they also pre

Android Still Growing Market Share By Winning First Time Smartphone Users

Android is continuing its onward march. The latest market figures from analyst ABI Research peg the platform at 80% marketshare of smartphone OSes, with just under 300 million smartphones running Andr

10BN+ Wirelessly Connected Devices Today, 30BN+ In 2020’s ‘Internet Of Everything’, Says ABI Research

How big is the connected devices universe? Analyst ABI Research reckons the Internet of Things contains some 10 billion+ wireless connected devices today. But it's predicting this figure will triple

Smartwatch Market Could Be A Third The Size Of The Netbook Market This Year (Maybe)

It's almost like Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft have actually launched smartwatches. Except of course they haven't. But who cares! Analyst house ABI Research has been stroking its collective bea

ABI: Tablets Will Take A 35%, $8.8BN App Revenue Share This Year — Passing Smartphones By 2018

Despite being such a new category of device tablets are racing up on their smaller cellular cousins, with rapidly growing user adoption and smartphone-surpassing web page traffic generation. Little wo

Users Will Download 44 Billion Mobile Apps By 2016

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/ten-billion.jpg" class="shot2">There's no doubt that there's been both an explosion of growth in mobile app downloads and app stores. While Ap

The Smart Money Is in Accessories, Not Smartphones

Mobile accessories is where the money will come from, says a new report from ABI Research. This study reports that the market for mobile accessories will generate more than $32 billion in revenue in 2