Forecast Shows Strong Mobile Imaging Market

Jan. 15, 2009

Market research specialist Parks Associates forecasts that the mobile imaging application market will exceed $500 million in revenue in 2013. In the firm's latest report on the topic, "Mobile Imaging: Platforms, Solutions, and Services," consumers are expected to be using camera-equipped mobile telephones for a variety of applications and will pay for enhanced capabilities to those mobile phones, such as photo-editing capabilities, comparison shopping, and social networking services. The report projects that consumers in the United States will spend more than $500 million in 2013 for imaging applications on their mobile phones, according to international research firm Parks Associates, which sees this market expanding beyond photo-sharing services to personalized content management and social networking applications.

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Jack Browne

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.