It's projecting consumer spending worldwide to top $110 billion in 2018.
It's also expecting its plugin to be offered on the websites of more than 2,000 shops across Europe and North American by the end of this year, and is projecting consumers will have used the service to create 250,000 wish-lists in time for Christmas.
The forecast, issued by Gartner late Tuesday night, projected global consumer demand for this particular service to more than triple to $32.2 billion by 2010.
The neighborhood boasts the headquarters of online advertising platform Rubicon Project, consumer electronics and accessories maker Belkin International and ICANN, the nonprofit organization that is responsible for assigning Internet domains.
Even if gas prices rise, sales are not likely to be much lower than projected, though consumers may shift their focus toward smaller vehicles, Mr. Toprak said.
Jupiter Communications forecast that online sales in November and December will reach $11.6 billion, while Forrester Research projected that consumers will spend $10 billion online between Thanksgiving and the end of the year.
She also is a lawyer who worked on public policy and advocacy issues at the NYCLU's Reproductive Rights Project, Consumers Union's Health Care Assets Project and Queens Legal Services for the Elderly.
In all these projects consumers were trained, assisted in ongoing curriculum review and contributed their lived experience in the domain of interest.
Application revenues from enterprise VR, in fact, are now projected to outpace consumer entertainment revenues by 2020.
Edison argues that the ratepayers should share some of the projected cost, while consumer and environmental groups counter that most of the financial burden should remain with Edison's shareholders.
