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Perhaps the biggest issue for Verizon will be how consumers react to metered pricing -- particularly since Sprint continues to offer an unlimited data access plan for its 4G network, Harry Wang, director of mobile research with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times "Our ...

iPod, iPhone, iPad and soon we will have iCloud? ...

It's also possible that the Kindle -- while attracting lots of media attention -- is such a small part of Amazon's overall business that the company doesn't feel the need to disclose how many it sells, suggested Harry Wang, director of mobile research with Parks Associates. "...

"The Cellmania purchase will not only strengthen RIM's ability to bring more apps to the market faster, but will also improve RIM customers' user experience in the BlackBerry App World," said Harry Wang, a research director at Parks Associates "I think RIM realizes that having...

"There is a real battle between Apple and Google, not around devices, but around software and the ecosystem surrounding it," Harry Wang, research director of mobile devices with Parks Associates, told TechNewsWorld. "With this new site, YouTube is sending a message to developers that instead of working on multiple applications for different operating environments, it makes more sense to create browser-accessible applications with a more Web-like experience and richer features."

"This new development underscores a heated summer competition in the e-reader/Internet tablet market," Harry Wang, director of health and mobile product research with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. In fact, "Amazon should be worried, as a credible book retailer'...

Similar findings emerged in a study conducted by Parks Associates in the third quarter of 2009, according to Harry Wang, director of research, mobile, for Parks Associates "We found multimedia (music, video and games), social networking, and information-related applications li...

Though many new players are entering the market for Internet tablets, "there's still room for more advanced and sophisticated brands like Pandigital," Harry Wang, director of health and mobile product research with Parks Associates, told LinuxInsider. By focusing on a smaller...

The number of diabetes patients and those with the potential for diabetes has grown substantially over the past decade and continues to expand. This trend creates a tremendous demand for innovative care solutions and service models. New service innovations will take advantage of the latest monitoring and communication technologies. As a result, the diabetic care service sector will experience a boom period with annual revenues topping US$1.9 billion in 2013 and growing at a five-year CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 33 percent...

Google showed off its new brainchild last week:a smartphone design in collaboration with its Android partners, Taiwan's handset maker HTC, and the wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. ...

"Publics has the clients who want to learn and use the mobile platform for a marketing purpose. So it fits into the theme we have seen that a traditional media-buying company collaborates with new ad technology and network operators to conquer new media platforms. It benefits them both. Last year, [ad firm] WPP had struck a similar technology alliance deal with Google," Harry Wang, a Parks Associates analyst, told the E-Commerce Times...

Contextual targeting is widely used in both the offline and online advertising worlds. However, the wild-card nature of behavioral targeting could revolutionize how marketers interact with their target audience in an online world. ...

Inefficiencies and redundancies resulting from the purchase of different entities brought together under the Platform-A umbrella are presumably part of the problem, said Harry Wang, a Parks Associates analyst "The integration effort -- I don't think they have made a smooth tra...

Unlike in the digital audio player market, the fight between NAND flash and hard-disk drive (HDD) on the personal media player (PMP) platform is far from over. The 1.8-inch HDD still has a firm grip on the PMP category that requires storage capacity of 20 GB or higher due to the cost per byte advantage over NAND flash ...

The two proposed buyouts are connected -- in a sense, noted Parks Associates analyst Harry Wang, as TomTom began its bid for Tele Atlas nearly a year ago "One of the problems in the navigation field for manufacturers is that the map content is [of] high cost," he told the E-Co...

About 90 million people in the U.S. suffer from one or multiple chronic conditions, with diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory conditions having the highest prevalence. These conditions are also the most suitable for medical monitoring devices ...

If the 2006 online video market was still in the traffic-building stage, 2007 marked the beginning of the monetization stage ...

With aQuantive and one of the largest online publishing operations on the Web, Microsoft's portfolio "puts it in a position to look at what's lacking technologically on the ad-serving side," Harry Wang, a research analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. "The technologies they've been demonstrating, including contextual ads, are definitely helping advertisers to identify the right type of audiences and understand consumers' consumption traits online in real time so that they can place the most appropriate ads alongside content."

The overall trend behind the widget advertising phenomenon is to try to improve the level of engagement with consumers and the targetability of ads, Harry Wang, a research analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times "The first step is to generate interest from con...

eBay, the world's largest online auction site, carries considerable weight in the U.S. and has a growing presence in Europe. However, in Japan, consumers are much more likely to use local businesses, instead of one that's making the leap from overseas, Harry Wang, senior analyst at Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times...