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Mobile Internet will account for 25% of China's mobile revenues in 2012, up from less than 23% in 2011. In India, mobile Internet will represent 19% of this year's service revenue. While the figures demonstrate the robust demand for mobile data across the Asia-Pacific, they still pale in comparison to the region's more advanced markets like Japan (40%) and Hong Kong (44%).

Global handset shipments will increase 29% from 1.7 billion in 2012 to 2.2 billion in 2016. The key driver of this growth will come from the smartphone segment, which is forecast to become larger than the ultra-low cost, low-cost, and feature phone segments combined by 2016.

Hybrid vehicles have been on the market for many years now, but 2011 was significant for the introduction of the first plug-in and all-electric consumer vehicles from major manufacturers, along with promises of more in 2012.

In 2011, the first plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) went into production to add the next level of electric-only drive to the steadily growing popularity of the hybrid assist vehicle. Large lithium-ion battery production facilities came online in a number of countries around the world to support the anticipated demand fueled in many countries by generous subsidies and tax benefits.

Customers’ adoption of new viewing formats, including VOD and viewing on media tablets and smartphones, will cause up to $22 billion (30%) of the US pay-TV advertising market to shift to new formats by 2016. Western Europe will see similar shifts, while the rest of world will lag in its transition of advertising dollars to new formats.

iPad users are estimated to have cumulatively downloaded three billion applications since the launch of the iPad in 2010. This was 19% of all cumulative downloads by Apple users. The iPhone took as long as two years before being able to achieve this level of downloads, while the iPad made it within nearly a year and a half.

WiMAX operators today are generally offering fixed WiMAX service based on the IEEE 802.16d specification, or mobile WiMAX service based on IEEE 802.16e. The IEEE 802.16m standard (also known as WiMAX 2) was developed to provide higher data rates and increased capacity and the members of the WiMAX Forum committed to follow this evolution path for 4G.

The latest global enterprise social collaboration market forecasts show revenues will reach $3.5 billion by 2016. In 2010, the market registered 51.7% year-on-year growth to reach $898.6 million. Cloud-based freemium services are spurring adoption, and volumes are set to see an even higher CAGR between 2011 and 2016.

According to ABI Research’s latest forecasts, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to consume 2,400 petabytes of mobile data annually by 2015, an estimated 23% of global data traffic, close behind North America with an expected consumption of 3,100 petabytes.

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading provider of integrated wireless systems and services to transportation, logistics and service fleet companies, today announced that ABI Research has ranked the company No. 1 for its new Commercial Vehicle Telematics In-Cab Hardware Vendor Matrix.

The Enterprise Mobility Solutions division of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced it has been named the leading manufacturer of passive UHF handheld radio frequency identification (RFID) readers by ABI Research.

Acquisition advances NCR ’s self-service growth and leadership across multiple industries

Collaboration Extends Flash Platform Ecosystem to Digital TVs and Set-Top Boxes

If Google's ambitions for its recently-launched Android smartphone operating system are fully realized, the new OS will represent a tipping point in attitudes towards the whole concept of a smartphone.

According to a recent online survey* conducted by ABI Research, nearly half (46%) of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone.