Market researches - 29/06/07

A few set of market information released this week:

• iSuppli predicts that touch-screen technology will experience healthy growth in the coming years. Top 8 touch-screen technologies overall revenues are expected to rise from $2.4bn this year to $4.4bn by 2012. iSupply also forecasts that the global market for internet TV service is forecast to be worth 5.8bn in 2011, up from $423m in 2006.

• According to In-Stat, mobile phones equipped with mapping and navigation applications would be a threat for personal navigation devices. Lower prices, superior functionalities would be the driving market forces to capture market share from PND manufacturers.

• According to a Motorola survey, consumers are looking forward to using WiMAX for responding to e-mail, reading and watching live online news, enjoying mobile TV and downloading music on the go. 57% of respondents think its important that wireless broadband services be available wherever they are.

• According to Gartner, the global mobile gaming revenues would increase from $2.9bn in 2006 to $4.3bn in 2007 and $9.6bn in 2009.

• According to Oliver Wyman, the VOD market would be worth $500m by 2012 (vs $56m this year).

• In-Stat founds that US businesses would spend more on mobile than on wireline by 2010.

• According to IDC, the WE femtocell market would reach $900m by 2011, and have over 5.7m users.

• Senza Fili Consulting forecasts that there would be 54m WiMAX users by 2012, of which about 33m would use the technology for mobile access.

• Jupiter Research has found that nearly 28m US consumers would have music phones by the end of this year.

• According to Berg Insight, there will be more than 5m PCs connected to HSPA networks in Europe this year.