Juniper Research

There's a very fine line between social gaming and social gambling. Think about it. All you have to do is add a wager and one becomes the other.Given that the former is already massive business (It's no accident that Zynga accounts for 12% of Facebook's revenue) it's hardly surprising ...

Tech’s going green. It has to. Hell, the world has to. The kind of action we’re seeing now with Facebook and Google’s data centres and Microsoft pledging to become Carbon neutral is just the beginning.In fact, the number of phones like the Samsung Replenish -- made from 82% recycled ...

For large numbers of people, watching TV still entails having a fairly large piece of furniture in their living room. In the next few years though, it could just mean having a smartphone.According to UK-based tech analysis company Juniper Research, around 240-million people are set to watch TV on ...

The war between Apple and Samsung has seen the two tech giants battle it out in court and in the advertising arena. The prize at stake? Smartphone dominance.The two are already the biggest players in the field, with tech research company Juniper Research estimating that nearly 60% of the ...

Apps are everywhere. There are app stores, fuelling the app economy, which is part of the app ecosystem. It stands to reason that we must be downloading a lot of them then. But how many?Millions? Hundreds of millions? Nope. Not even close. At the moment we’re downloading around 31-billion ...

Hey, remember when online banking came along? Suddenly you were spared hours in bank queues and dealing with bank employees. Thing is you were largely tied to your desktop. The next logical step was mobile banking.Smartphones have seen mobile banking take off in a big way. Banks even have ...

So you have a tablet. It’s great right? You can do all sorts of cool stuff on it. But could it ever hope to replace your TV when it comes to viewing video content.I mean sure, it’s great for the odd YouTube clip, and it’ll just about do for ...

More and more people get smartphones every day. It’s only natural, therefore, that they should play an increasingly important role in the mobile health sector. In fact, high-tech analysis firm Juniper Research reckons that some 3-million smartphone users will be using their devices for remote health monitoring by 2016.The ...

There are around 650-million mobile social media users in the world today. According to Juniper Research, a company specialising in providing research and analysis to companies in the tech sector, that number is to set hit 1.3-billion by 2016 -- "more than the total number of social media users on ...