Smart watches will become the most popular wearable device among consumers, increasing from 21 percent of all wearables sold in 2016 to 51 percent in 2022, according to a new forecast on the state of the wearables market from Forrester.

The enterprise virtual reality (VR) training market will generate $216 million in 2018, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.  Additionally, VR systems will post a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 140 percent to total a whopping $6.3 billion in 2022.

451 Research’s most recent Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation survey finds that cloud is now mainstream with 90 percent of organizations surveyed using some type of cloud service. Moreover, analysts expect 60 percent of workloads to be running in some form of hosted cloud service by 2019, up from 45 percent today. This represents a pivot from DIY-owned and operated to cloud or hosted third-party IT services.

By 2025, 10 percent of hospitals across the globe will become or will have started implementations to become smart hospitals. Frost & Sullivan’s market research, “Future of Smart Hospitals,” projects significant market growth and billions of dollars in revenues for four key segments, including: pharmacy automation, mobile asset tracking, data analytics and cloud computing

A whopping 54 percent of U.S. broadband households see little value in return for sharing their data, according to research released Dec. 11 by Parks Associates. In addition, 42 percent do not trust that providers will be able to keep their data safe.

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.

Intelligent automation will transform workplace outsourcing according to Gartner, Inc. Sourcing and vendor management leaders must prepare to restructure these services and renegotiate contracts to leverage intelligent automation, Gartner noted Nov. 13.

The media industry in Europe is undergoing rapid transformation with increasing popularity of over-the-top (OTT) video services, Frost & Sullivan noted in a recent report. Increasingly ubiquitous connectivity, progressive consumers, and regulatory initiatives around a ‘Digital Single Market (DSM)’ have intensified the competition among several international companies, local start-ups, pay TV operators and broadcasters who offer OTT video services.

The importance of the growing smart home market is drawing in car manufacturers and their development strategies, as Mercedes, BMW, Ford, and others are bringing Amazon Alexa and other smart home voice control platforms into their connected cars. But, voice control is just the start, ABI Research suggests.

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.

IT spending in EMEA is projected to total $1 trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.9 percent from estimated spending of $974 billion in 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.

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.

A fresh market intelligence study by Transparency Market Research (TMR) reveals the global cloud encryption market to be largely consolidated with the dominance of a few well-entrenched players that hold the key market share.

Smartphone OEMs shipped a total of 373.1 million smartphones worldwide in the third quarter of 2017 (3Q17), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

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.

Revenues lost to online piracy will nearly double between 2016 and 2022 to $51.6 billion, according to the Online TV Piracy Forecasts report. Covering 138 countries, these forecasts include revenues lost to TV episodes and movies – but not other sectors such as sports or pay TV.

A new webcast on the impact "managed Wi-Fi services" can have on network service providers (NSPs) in the EMEA region has been released for the Broadband World Forum 2017 conference -- which being held this week Berlin.

Although high dynamic range (HDR) technology is on track for substantial growth in the next few years, there are still challenges in supporting all the non-HDR screens on TVs, smart phones and tablets that still represent the majority of devices currently present in the homes of consumers all around the world, says David Touzé, Senior Research Engineer, Technicolor, in a podcast interview for journalists during the SCTE 2017 conference being held in Denver, Colorado this week.

As the entertainment industry continues to rapidly evolve, traditional frameworks are being disrupted in almost every way.  To ensure that traditional players, along with the new generation of companies and technologies, continue to deliver quality experiences to audiences, the role of standards is going to be more important than ever, according to Barbara Lange, Executive Director for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, or SMPTE, in a podcast interview for journalists.