Author: Connected World
Could the tidal shift in EV (electric vehicle) adoption be happening now? The latest IEA (Intl. Energy Agency) report on the space, the Global EV Outlook 2022, suggests EV sales doubled in 2021 to a new record of 6.6 million, with more EVs currently being sold each week than were sold in all of 2012. IEA says even despite the global supply chain issues that have plagued industries like automotive, EV sales have continued to rise so far in 2022, with 2 million EVs sold globally in the first quarter alone. The agency says there were 16.5 million EVs on…
Juniper Research says carrier billing spend for digital goods will exceed $74 billion in 2026.
IDC says worldwide Ethernet switch revenues increased 12.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2022.
Gartner says marketing budgets have increased to 9.5% of overall company revenue in 2022.
Berg Insight says the installed base of aftermarket car telematics devices reached 87.4 million in 2021.
Parks Associates says 24% of smart home owners hired a professional to install their device.
The key is to ensure health tech is affordable, accessible, and inclusive. In the past couple of years, society has had to intensely re-evaluate how it can and should approach various aspects of public health. The COVID-19 pandemic upheaved many processes in life and business, and it vastly disrupted economies. But the silver lining amidst the horror of the disease that caused millions of deaths globally is that the COVID pandemic also broke down barriers for health tech that may save and improve millions more lives going forward. According to Market Research Future, the IoT (Internet of Things) in healthcare…
Juniper Research says smart-traffic management systems to save 205 million metric tons of CO2 by 2027.
It’s a list no industry wants to be at the top of—the most-targeted by ransomware list. Unfortunately for manufacturing companies, the manufacturing sector has landed in the top spot for the second year in a row, according to a new report from Zscaler. Other industries like healthcare and food services have experienced a sharp spike in attacks, and the number of ransomware attacks in general has increased too. What can companies do to keep their systems, devices, and data as safe as possible amid these unfavorable trends? Just how unfavorable are the ransomware trends so far in 2022? Zscaler’s 2022…
IDC says PC shipments will feel the effects of global headwinds with shipment volumes expected to decline 8.2% in 2022.