CIOs in China are investing their fast-growing IT budgets in digitalization, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner's annual global survey of CIOs found that the great success of digital-born companies in China, such as Alibaba and Tencent, is encouraging more Chinese enterprises to build or participate in digital ecosystems.

From connected cars, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous technologies, and the impact of smartphones on in-vehicle experience to intensifying regulatory and safety mandates, the automotive industry is facing unprecedented disruption, Frost & Sullivan says in a new report.

In the wake of new efforts by the FCC and U.S. Senate to deregulate the marketplace by rolling back the Obama administration’s Internet privacy protections, new research from Parks Associates finds 59 percent of U.S. pay-TV broadband households are bothered by the fact that advertisers use their personal viewing data to push personalized ads to them.  

American consumers' status as a binge-watching, streaming, multi-tasking nation enters 2017 with strong momentum according to Deloitte's 11th "Digital Democracy Survey." With 84 percent of Americans on social networks – social media has evolved well beyond "socializing" and is being used to discover new content, get news and resolve customer service issues.

China will continue to dominate the 4K TV market, with 42 percent of all TVs in 2017 expected to ship with 4K panels, according to a white paper released by IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, ahead of Cable Congress 2017.

Smartphones that unfold to become tablets, adjustable curved TVs and pop-up presentation screens are just some of a radical new wave of product concepts made possible by advances in flexible display technology, highlighted in the latest research report from Futuresource Consulting.

Parks Associates notes that churn is lowest among the top three most established services (Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu), and these providers are in a race to add new content and services or to match each other in new features to prevent any migration of their subscribers to a competitor.

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.