Music server market set for five years of growth
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| ABI Research released a study predicting a shift in the digital music server
| market from desktop PCs to dedicated music servers. Revenue for dedicated
| music server hardware, including embedded-Linux products, is expected to grow
| to $3.2 billion by year-end 2012, says ABI.
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http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6975135905.html
Older but interesting:
Microsoft to be an "also-ran" in "Ultra-Mobile Devices" Market?
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| A report from ABI Research predicts devices based on Microsoft's Ultra Mobile
| PC (UMPC) specification will ship 4.68 million units by 2012, while Mobile
| Internet Devices (MIDs), frequently based on Linux, will ship 90 Million
| units in the same time, outselling UMPCs 19 to 1.
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http://blog.matthewmiller.net/2007/10/microsoft-to-be-also-ran-in-ultra.html
Related:
Bringing License-Free Operating Systems to Smartphones and Mid-Tier Devices
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| A device’s operating system is increasingly seen as a way for carriers and
| OEMs to differentiate their offerings. But operating systems are also subject
| to a growing degree of price pressure. Linux is being positioned as a low
| cost, even license-free, solution for commercial smartphones, but also for
| real-time operating system replacement in mid-tier devices.
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http://www.abiresearch.com/products/market_research/Mobile_Linux
Kindle, Eee PC, PocketSurfer2: all bellwethers of the UMD
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| Amazon's Kindle eBook has launched to much hype and mixed reviews, the
| ASUSTek Eee super-small notebook has sold like hot cakes and DataWind's
| Pocketsurfer2 mobile Internet access device, without the benefit of big name
| backers, has barely registered a blip on the local radar. But, according to
| ABI Research, these devices are only the vanguard of a 90 million strong
| invasion of ultramobile devices that will march into consumers hands over the
| next five years.
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| ABI breaks down UMDs into two major categories: Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs),
| which run Windows and business applications and are aimed at business users,
| and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), which target consumers and are more
| likely to run a Linux operating system.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15726/1096/
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