Parks Associates smart home research finds high perceived prices remain a top barrier to smart home adoption, with providers and manufacturers working to bring lower-priced products to market and discontinue specific premium products.

Cybersecurity for commercial and public sectors is estimated to reach $68.01 billion by 2030, driven by the ongoing threat of cyberattacks and government rules concerning privacy policies and data protection. The surge in digital infrastructures, mobile users, and wireless network usage is compelling organizations across sectors to embrace security convergence.

The global pandemic and the shift to remote work/schooling engendered a captive audience that accelerated trends within the media and entertainment industry. Streaming video subscriptions climbed as households stacked subscriptions, driving subscription revenues to over US$69 billion in 2020.

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The source of funds for new digital business initiatives will more frequently come from business departments outside IT and charged as a cost of revenue or cost of goods sold (COGS).

Global 8K TV household adoption will begin to build momentum over the next few years, reaching 72 million households by 2025. Following a slower than expected 2020 when just under 350 thousand 8K TVs were sold globally, Strategy Analytics’ forecasting models indicate sales of more than 1 million 8K TVs in 2021 and around 4 million in 2022.

After a tumultuous 2020, the need for digitization and keeping workers connected became crystal clear for many. This is true in all industries, but especially for industrial markets where workflow complexity, knowledge retention and share, and the financial impact from downtime and other inefficiencies are particularly severe.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the demand for workforce engagement management and analytics applications. This increases the deployment of cloud/hybrid setups and creates opportunities to leverage digital solutions that support work-at-home agents (WAHA), self-service bots, and artificial intelligence-enabled solutions.

Despite it still being in its early stage, 5G deployment in China is aggressive, allowing the country to be prepared to maintain/advance its position as the world's leading industrial manufacturing nation and be ready for the next generation of the industrial revolution.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the global digital pathology market finds that it’s estimated to hit $825.9 million by 2025. Increasing pathology test volumes due to disease prevalence, digital pathology’s importance to the pharmaceutical industry, and regulatory approvals for using digital pathology in the primary diagnosis will boost the market.

Enterprise-wide adoption of digital agreements and acceptance of digital signatures are as much an issue of managing organizational culture as it is about technology management. The era of contactless engagement -- driven by the rise in remote work and digital end-to-end workflows -- is elevating the role of IT in enabling a new generation of internal and external agreements.

A new global survey conducted by BCG GAMMA finds that 55% of all respondents overestimated the maturity of their responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) program—the structures, processes, and tools that help organizations ensure that their AI systems work in the service of good while transforming their businesses.

Forrester predicts that employment protection initiatives instituted during the pandemic will diminish incentives and further delay CIOs’ plans for automation across Europe. This is despite the fact that 76% of European organizations are already underprepared for automation compared to 65% in Asia Pacific and 73% in North America.

Enterprise resource planning software remains one of the most critical business applications of large organizations. Failure to properly incorporate core packages -- like SAP -- into business transformation initiatives can derail the achievement of mission-critical future-state objectives.

41% of key customers (also known as key accounts) indicated that the economic implications of COVID-19 significantly impacted their spend with B2B sales organizations, according to Gartner, Inc. A Gartner survey revealed that while some key customers increased spending with B2B sales organizations, only 18% indicated a spending increase of more than 10% since January 2020.

Touchscreens and voice controls are becoming the most common embedded infotainment controls in high-volume makes, but automakers are still attempting to differentiate themselves with novel human-machine-interfaces (HMI). From intelligent voice assistants to novel jog dials to non-touch gesture controls and more, innovation is continuing to be brought into automotive interiors.

Over these next few months, the post-pandemic landscape will begin to take shape. Technologies like 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), IoT, and those enabling smart cities and the smart home will play pivotal roles in reshaping businesses, verticals, and economies around the world.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the global cellular baseband processor market clocked all-time high revenue in 2020, according to Strategy Analytics. Strategy Analytics' research finds that strong demand for 5G fueled the baseband market to $26.8 billion in 2020, up 25 percent year-on-year.

Technology is upending labor markets, and governments, companies, and individuals need to look beyond aggregate numbers and consider how individual professions will be affected. A new analysis quantifies the impact of technology by 2030 in Australia, Germany, and the United States. The report is being released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Faethm.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud, evolving clinical and administrative/operational needs, and the introduction of new policies and regulations will boost the global medical imaging informatics market.

New technological developments, the rise of new competitive disruptors and changing customer expectations have elevated the imports of accelerating the pace with which institutions bring new value-added services to market. A growing number of executives are taking a hard look at how fintech services, ISVs and SaaS resources can support this “need-for-speed” in a risk-adjusted manner.