Word: dataquest
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...million), scrappy partner with the know-how to direct the consumer push. Though Diba's enabling software for smart phones and televisions has received mixed reviews, it's building Internet-browsing TVs for Samsung in Korea. The Sun deal is "a way of playing catch-up," says Dataquest principal analyst Allen Weiner. "Sun is mostly buying Diba's relationship with electronics companies." And with Bill Gates sitting on $9 billion in reserves, Sun is going to need all the help...
...complete nonsense," says Syncronys president Rainer Poertner of c't's charge. "The compression algorithms are at the heart of our technology." Does SoftRAM 95 actually compress data held in memory chips? "Absolutely!" he insists. Poertner points out that a recent customer survey conducted by Dataquest, a market- research firm, showed that most SoftRAM 95 owners are quite satisfied...
...video-game players have another option: they can wait a few years before trading up. "Don't forget, kids could easily go a year doing other activities,'' says Dataquest's Lavin. "They still have the right to go out and play basketball." That scenario is a lot scarier to the industry than its bloodiest games...
...season-the systems are still far too expensive to tempt consumers used to paying $100 or less for a game machine with plenty of good software. "We do not believe there is a mass market for any machine that costs over $200," says Dan Lavin, a senior analyst at Dataquest, a market-research firm based in San Jose, California. "None of these machines is going to sell in large volumes...
...which Gates unveiled this month. In a typical Gates marketing ploy, the network software comes bundled with every copy of Windows 95. This gives his offering an edge over every other online service promising access to the Internet. "The numbers are pretty simple," says Allen Weiner, an analyst at Dataquest. If only 10% of the 30 million people expected to buy Windows 95 this year click on the button that lets them connect to msn-and through it, the Internet-that's 3 million customers in the first year, more than Prodigy and America Online have amassed between them...