While IT, and most businesses, have been focused on operational excellence for the past 20-30 years, Gartner, Inc. analysts said it’s time security leaders put the focus on customer experience.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of enterprise MR (Mixed Reality) applications will approach 40 million by 2022, rising from just 6.5 million in 2018. That translates into growth of over 500 percent.

“A very determined cyber-criminal has very high odds of getting into your system.  The new war is about planning for a cyber security breach and being able to detect, respond, isolate and eradicate that breach. Many companies are practicing good cyber hygiene.  But for the very advanced hacks—you have to detect them.” – Bryce Austin, CEO of TCE Strategy

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the wearables market has begun to shift away from wrist-based devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers, with other device categories forecast to grow much faster.

New findings from Juniper Research have concluded that the cross-border B2B money transfer market is ripe for disruption, as new technologies and legislative changes redefine traditional banking practices across the globe.

Online sales will grow at an average of 11.9 percent per year over the next five years in Western Europe with 21 percent of non-grocery retail sales being online by 2022, according to a new report from Forrester Research. Although grocery will be one of the fastest-growing online retail categories, just 4.5 percent of grocery sales will occur online in 2022.

In a podcast interview for journalists, VFX editor Matt Carson describes how he was introduced to Technicolor PULSE when he was called in to help with production of Netflix's hit sci-fi series Stranger Things Season 2 early in 2017. He quickly discovered its power and its benefits.

A whopping 58.7 percent of TV homes in the U.S. now own at least one Internet-enabled device capable of streaming to a TV set, according to Nielsen’s Q2 2017 Total Audience Report. The emergence of such devices is satiating consumers’ desire to access content with the press of a button.

Parks Associates has released its updated list of the top 10 subscription over-the-top (OTT) video services in the U.S. market, based on number of subscribers -- and Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continue to hold the top three slots.  Meanwhile, HBO Now made a significant move into the top five.

Video piracy – the copying and selling copyrighted content - has been around since the advent of the VHS tape and home video recording in 1979. Today, video piracy has shifted from pirated set-top boxes to content redistribution over broadband networks, ABI Research noted Nov. 9.  The most common forms of piracy today include illegal fully-loaded Kodi boxes, social network live streams, torrents of exclusive series or movies, web-based redistribution via file lockers, and password sharing. Service providers lose US$6 to US$8 billion annually in revenue to piracy.

The worldwide public cloud services market grew 28.6 percent year over year in the first half of 2017 (1H17) with revenues totaling $63.2 billion, according to new results from the International Data Corporation. The revenue total for the first half of the year was slightly ahead of IDC's forecast.

The Duffer Brothers explain the collaborative nature of a project with the scope of "Stranger Things" and the impact that color artists like Skip Kimball, Technicolor Senior Digital Intermediate Colorist, have on creating the visual signature and identity of Stranger Things.

In a podcast interview for journalists, Frager points out that this project is particularly well suited to the creative and technological opportunities presented by immersive media.

New studies show that solar technology has a bright potential in the African continent and could provide solutions to combating crucial problems in the region. 

The PC industry experienced modest growth in the business PC market, but this was offset by declining consumer demand, according to a new report from Gartner. In the U.S., PC shipments totaled 12.3 million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 2.4 percent decline from the first quarter of 2016.

Damien Fagnou, Chief Technology Officer at Technicolor subsidiary MPC Film, spent three years supervising the provision of technology that underpinned the creation of The Jungle Book. In a podcast interview for journalists, Fagnou points out that hundreds of people on three continents were involved in developing and managing the enabling technologies for the production of this film.

Technicolor has produced a series of short videos that reveal what, in fact, it takes to create a sense of amazement for audiences seeking immersive entertainment experiences. The videos reveal how an intimate interaction between science and art is advancing the way stories are told to enhance the connection between consumers and the wide array of content they love.