Press Releases

January 2005 - Posts

• The Next Wave of Distributive Audio Sounds Off with 802.11-Enabled Speakers

  As home networks rapidly evolve support for the distribution of stored digital and online media content to the home entertainment center, of which many use a PC as the primary entertainment device, 802.11-enabled speaker solutions will find a natural fit in many media networks. According to The Diffusion Group, a Dallas-based market research consultancy, approximately one-third of current home network owners are, to varying degrees and averaged across several price points, interested in purchasing 802.11-enabled speakers. ... Posted Jan 26 2005, 10:03 PM by The Diffusion Group

• Consumers Ready for Multimedia Mobile Phones

  A new report from consumer technology think-tank, The Diffusion Group, finds that consumers are increasingly comfortable with the idea of listening to music of viewing video on their mobile phones. This should come as welcome news to the hundreds of IC, software, and hardware vendors looking to exploit this space.... Posted Jan 15 2005, 05:07 AM by The Diffusion Group Filed under: Multimedia, mobile phones, MP3 download, multimedia phones, music download, online video

• The Year the "Digital Home" Reached Critical Mass

  As the 2005 Consumer Electronic Show begins in Las Vegas this week, industry leaders will (once again) evangelize their company's "cutting edge" technologies, and (once again) roll out a variety of consumer electronic products that, while interesting in a Jetson-esque sense, will have little applicability to the lives of ordinary consumers. Among the most widely-hyped concepts of previous shows - and without doubt a centerpiece at this year's CES - has been "the digital home," an amorphous and abused concept that has been expanded to include everything from Internet-connected refrigerators and talking toasters to robots that wash windows on command. ... Posted Jan 04 2005, 10:05 PM by The Diffusion Group