The future of AR/VR could be bright, but only if it moves beyond where it is today. 2018 was the first of what look like two transitional years, with a potential shakeout in 2019 before an inflection point in late 2020. Digi-Capital's new Augmented/Virtual Reality Report Q1 2019 and AR/VR Analytics Platform look at where we are today, where we’re heading tomorrow, and some of the changes needed to get us there.

This year will see more Network Service Providers (NSPs) around the world embrace "managed services" as a core strategy for generating new recurring revenues and competing with retail offers, says Luis Martinez-Amago, President and General Manager for Technicolor's Connected Home Division, in an audio interview for journalists.

Vehicle quality is the best it's ever been. Ever. Owners made it very clear in the J.D. Power 2018 Initial Quality StudySM (IQS), and this was the fifth year in a row that we have seen the industry improve.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $476.7 billion in 2018, a 13.4 percent increase from 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Memory strengthened its position as the largest semiconductor category, accounting for 34.8 percent of total semiconductor revenue, up from 31 percent in 2017.

The cyber security market is projected to reach $258.99 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 11.9%. Cyber security also referred to as Information Technology (IT) security, emphasize on safeguarding computers, programs, networks, and data from unlicensed or spontaneous access. As cyber threats have gained importance, security solutions have progressed as well. Factors such as rise in malware and phishing threats, and growth in adoption of IoT and BYOD trend among organizations, are driving the cyber security industry growth.

Technicolor experts and executives will be on hand during the CES 2019 conference and exposition -- being held over January 8-11 in Las Vegas -- to demo and discuss leading-edge developments on a range of connected home technologies, including: Management of Multiple Video Platforms, Android TV, Ultra-Broadband, DOCSIS 3.1, Wi-Fi 6, and Advanced HDR.

Retailers are set to lose some $130 billion in digital CNP (Card-not-Present) fraud between 2018 and 2023, according to a new Juniper Research report. The report highlighted that increasingly complex approaches by fraudsters, alongside retailers’ inertia in adapting to new fraud prevention requirements, would be key factors behind the increases in fraud transaction value.

The consumer Virtual Reality (VR) market continues to dominate in terms of both shipments and value chain revenue, and by 2023 the consumer VR hardware market will reach $5 billion in revenues, according to a recent report by ABI Research.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that annual online payment fraud losses from eCommerce, airline ticketing, money transfer and banking services, will reach $48 billion by 2023; up from the $22 billion in losses projected for 2018.

New "digital realities" will require a new legal framework, with two-thirds of respondents to Gartner's CEO Survey expecting their business models to change in the next three years. Digitalization looms large as a key driver of near-term business change and legal departments must reorient themselves around digital project challenges that accelerate existing legal and compliance risks.

Digital transformation is changing the way that people buy, get information and invest. Though wealth management is a relative latecomer to digital transformation, today's wealth management companies and their customers are now relying increasingly on digital processes to purchase wealth management services -- as well as for some basic investment advice, says Michael Foy, Senior Director, Wealth Management Practice J.D. Power, in a new interview for journalists.

Although an overwhelming majority of consumers are very concerned about the security of their personal data, smart devices and online services, that anxiety has no impact on purchase decisions, new research from Parks Associates reveals.

Sales of Mobile PCs into the U.S. K-12 market increased in the third quarter of 2018, with shipments growing 10 percent year-on-year, according to new research from Futuresource Consulting.  This follows growth of only 3 percent in Q2. 

The Virtual Reality (VR) market is at a crossroad, finds ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies.

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to decline by 3 percent in 2018 before returning to low single-digit growth in 2019 and through 2022, according to International Data Corp. (IDC).

Revenue from SD-WAN (appliance + control and management software) reached $284 million in 3Q 2018, up 23 percent quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), according to a new report from IHS Markit.

Hurricanes and other natural disasters invariably cause price increases in the automobile market across the affected area, with a ripple effect that extends beyond the direct points of impact. The exact effect of each event, however, differs, so it is important to have historical data as a benchmark to help predict the pricing impact, says Ben Bartosch, Manager of Forecast Analytics at J.D. Power, in a new audio interview for journalists.

The rapid rise of DevOps -- along with the mainstreaming of agile methodologies for creating applications -- is introducing new opportunities for Network Service Providers (NSPs) interested in deploying more services to subscribers, more rapidly and safely in the era of Edge Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Network Service Providers (NSPs) have an opportunity to harness spectrum set aside for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to pursue a wide range of profitable use cases -- especially those that surround Local Indoor Mobile Access (LIMA).

The cable/telco sector is in the midst of a seismic shift, as new technologies and rising consumer expectations drive the radical transformation of traditional business models. During a recent podcast interview for journalists, Mark Wyman, Senior Vice President for Application Development for Windstream and Chris Menier, Vice President and Transformation Strategist at Vitria discussed how a sophisticated data-centric approach to a customer-focused strategy can generate sustainable competitive differentiation within the NSP community.