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"A large part of the iPod customer base are Windows users so they don't have the Apple brand loyalty that we have traditionally seen in the Macintosh market," Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for the NPD Group, told the E-Commerce Times iTunes Not a Barrier...
It will be a long time before the SATV providers and telcos are in direct competition for their primary target markets, predicted Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for the NPD Group "Satellite television tends to be especially strong in rural areas," he told TechNewsWo...
In addition, Microsoft has been pitching to The New York Times concepts about what a newspaper might look like in the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system, according to Ross Rubin, director for industry analysis for The NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y "If you combined ...
"Very often these mergers are to broaden a company's footprint -- as was done in the AT&T acquisition of BellSouth -- or looking for a new target customer in a tangential space, like Verizon purchasing MCI," Ross Rubin, director for industry analysis at the The NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y. told TechNewsWorld...
While HD-DVD has the support of large players like Microsoft and Intel, many of Blu-ray's backers make consumer products, observed Ross Rubin, director for industry analysis at the NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y. "Intel and Microsoft are generally good allies to have, but they have a limited influence on what products will ship."
Analysts said the expanded product line was a good move for Nokia. "Moving into the 2 megapixel camera category provides them with an opportunity to start taking the low end of the digital camera market," Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis, NPD Group, told TechNewsWorld. "For the next year or two, we'll probably see [the] biggest impact on the one-time-use camera market. In theory, most people have their cell phone with them just about all the time."
"While there's still significant volume, at least among professionals, for the hand-helds, Microsoft is looking beyond standalone PDAs," Ross Rubin, director for industry analysis with the NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y., told TechNewsWorld. "It's been leveraging a lot of its operating system work into portable media players and smartphones, which are two growing categories."
"Clearly Microsoft is trying to reach out to the companies that own rights to digital media because having that media compatible with its technology is critical to ensuring its adoption," Ross Rubin, director for industry analysis for the The NPD Group in New York City told TechNewsWorld...
"Sony has to launch this almost as a necessary evil if they want legal downloads to be available to owners of their minidisc players," Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD Techworld of Port Washington, New York, told TechNewsWorld "Those devices can't easily acces...
Consequently, retailers are working closely with online comparison-shopping sites. "At first, many retailers thought that the comparison-shopping sites presented them with competition, but now they view them as another distribution channel," said Ross Rubin, senior analyst at market research firm eMarketer...
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