Author: Connected World
IDC says IT product sales accelerated in Q1 2022, with a 13.1% growth.
Parks Associates says 61% of livestreaming viewers watch sports, the most popular type of content.
The path forward requires tech, policy, mindset shift, and common language for measuring progress. Society is turning a corner in how it consumes energy and how it evaluates the need for global decarbonization. For the first time, trends like a readiness to cut energy consumption, combined with technology advances that allow average consumers and businesses to track energy consumption, plus a sharp decrease in the cost of renewables and energy storage have all converged. What’s left is a huge opportunity—an opportunity to do nothing short of changing the course of the planet. There’s momentum behind this global shift to clean…
ABI Research says the metaverse and immersive collaboration and related services will reach $22 billion by 2030.
Berg Insight says the installed base of fleet management systems in South Africa to reach 3.6 million units by 2026.
Juniper Research says 5G voice users to reach 2.5 billion globally by 2024.
As we approach the halfway point of 2022, the cybersecurity outlook for the year could be better. In April, there were at least 11 cyberattacks in the U.S. targeting several different sectors—public administration, healthcare, universities/education, telecommunication, and food. For instance, Austin Peay State University was the victim of a ransomware attack at the end of last month, as was the ADA (American Dental Assn.). Thanks in part to the spike in cybersecurity incidents in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more organizations are investing in proactive measures to keep themselves as safe as possible. One example of a proactive measure…
IDC says software sales through North American distributors saw a compound annual growth rate of 5% from 2018 to 2021.
Gartner predicts 65% of B2B sales organizations will transition from intuition-based to data-driven decision making by 2026.
Parks Associates says two-thirds of prospective MDU residents report pre-installation of smart home devices is an important factor when selecting a new home.