Tag archive: Jupiter

Are you a fan of all things space-related and follow NASA on Twitter? If so, then you had a chance to win an invite to Florida to watch a real-life NASA launch. As we all know, the space-shuttle program is officially over, so this isn’t a shuttle launch, but it is still a launch. NASA invited 150 of its Twitter followers, from six countries, to take part in this event.  The 150 lucky Twitter followers will take part in a Tweetup, and will be… Read More

A new study from JupiterResearch shows that the Internet is rapidly becoming the most important media format for U.S. consumers: according to Jupiter, U.S. consumers now spend an average of 14 hour per week online, the same amount of time they spend watching television. The report shows that Internet use is displacing traditional print media (books, magazines, and newspapers), radio, and even television as the U.S. consumers'… Read More

A report published by Jupiter Resarch and reported by CNET News.com shows that 90 percent of respondents to a survey have no more than 1,000 digital songs on their computers. 77 percent of the consumers Jupiter questioned said they'd be interested in purchasing a portable media player with a capacity of 1,000 songs. The 4GB hard drive included in Apple Computer's iPod Mini, and in MP3 players from some Apple rivals, holds roughly… Read More

More than half of online consumers would record programs and movies on their PCs if they could play back the content on a standard television, a market-research firm said Tuesday. The finding of a consumer poll by Jupiter Research is good news for Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition, which Jupiter expects to become the standard operating system for midlevel PCs and some desktop replacement notebooks over the next 12 to 18… Read More