While there seems to be little doubt that global urbanization will continue unabated, it is equally clear that current concepts of urban living and infrastructure are neither sustainable nor scalable from an environmental impact, resilience, cost, and humanized living perspective. The status quo of polluted, hazardous, and gridlocked cities is beginning to change.

Given the exponential volumes of data leaving the traditional network perimeter every day by volition of an enterprise’s own users, the growing risk of data theft is harder to anticipate than ever before. One of the most challenging obstacles to insider threat prevention has been that most enterprises ignore their users within their risk assessments.

There is a dire need to ensure that 5G spectrum policies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and South Africa include effective spectrum allocation and management strategies. This is key to ensuring that the evolution from 3G and 4G networks to 5G networks and capabilities is seamless, viable for ecosystem players, and accelerates digital transformation imperatives.

While 5G connectivity is grabbing the consumer technologies headlines, the market is also witnessing a massive uptake of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology. Despite UWB being early in its ecosystem development, it is fast becoming a major short-range wireless technology for use across many applications, including smartphones, wearables, tablets, mobile accessories, and other consumer electronics.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that technological advancements and countries’ emphasis on climate change policies are expediting market growth of the global digital grid. As a result, the market is likely to garner $9.21 billion in revenue by 2030 from $8.15 billion in 2020, an uptick at a moderate compound annual growth rate of 1.2%.

The circular economy is a key sustainability strategy being adopted by world and industry leaders in their fight against climate change. While the circular economy is still in its infancy in terms of data and metrics, there are indicators that it is a growing phenomenon and tech industries, such as IoT for asset tracking, are set to grow rapidly in the next five years.

End-user spending on public cloud services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will total $5.7 billion in 2022, an increase of 19.2%, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. While still in double digits, growth in 2022 will be slower compared to the forecasted 21.6% growth in 2021.

New vehicle production issues combined with steady demand fueled by continued population growth have created unprecedented profit margins on historically low volumes. The past 18 months have raised many pressing issues about the sector’s ability to sustain this high-octane dynamic. Among them is how industry executives can make the best decisions when conventional key performance indicators (KPIs) are out of whack.

The aggregated installed base of LiDAR sensors in the Smart Cities, Security, and Industrial verticals will reach 16 million by 2030, higher than the 13 million LiDAR sensors to be installed in vehicles by 2030. Moreover, the IoT markets will reach mass-market maturity faster than automotive, yielding significant business value before the middle of this decade.

Nearly 60% of HR leaders report that building critical skills and competencies will be their number one priority in 2022, according to a Gartner, Inc. survey. The survey found the other top HR priorities for 2022 are: organizational design and change management (48%), current and future leadership bench (45%), the future of work (42%), and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) (35%).

There is formidable competition challenging the broadcasting community. Over-the-top (OTT) streaming providers have introduced a variety of new user experiences that are forever changing viewing habits and expectations. However, there is room for broadcasters to compete effectively in this field. That is why ideas about improved viewing experiences—such as those brought to the market by Advanced HDR by Technicolor, and interactive functionality have come to the forefront in next-generation television technology.

Frost & Sullivan’s finds that the global 3D printing materials market is projected to reach $3.18 billion by 2027 from $1.33 billion in 2020 at a compound annual growth rate of 13.3%. The market is driven by the growing acceptance and deployment of 3D printing technologies in product design and development functions.

An increase in infrastructure disruptions caused by man-made and natural events has created a demand for utility providers to develop more effective and attainable safety messaging. Between cyber ransomware attacks and an uptick in severe weather with catastrophic consequences, executives in the utilities industry are reviewing the efficacy of their communications plans and the effect it can have on customer satisfaction.

For many in the industry, IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps represent opposite ends of the technology management spectrum -- putting into conflict those who want to move fast and drive change with those who are hard-wired to provide security, governance, and reliability. There is a growing case for these two enterprise technology philosophies to coexist if they can align to enhance performance and enable business transformation.

The recent proliferation of digital health and wellness functions within the consumer wearables market has led to more attention being paid to remote healthcare monitoring solutions either through a self-managed approach or via a full-service program from a healthcare practitioner. A new report from Strategy Analytics investigates the current landscape of consumer healthcare devices.

The Industrial Edge continues to be a hot topic for industrial and manufacturing firms when it comes to understanding the performance of their equipment and production line overall. In its latest report, global technology intelligence firm, ABI Research highlights the top vendors working with customers to deliver insights on-premises for data utilization.

Strategy Analytics' Handset Component Technologies (HCT) research report estimates that Apple, MediaTek and Qualcomm will capture the top revenue share spots in the Arm-based notebook PC processor market in 2021. After seeing nine-fold revenue growth in 2020, the Arm-based notebook PC processor market will grow over three-fold to $949 million in 2021.

The new Smart Manufacturing Platforms Competitive Ranking by global technology intelligence firm ABI Research provides an in-depth and unbiased examination of the solutions offered by nine manufacturing platform providers delivering market insights on certain chosen technological criteria.

A September 2021 survey of 251 CFOs and other finance leaders revealed that 47% intend to assess digital currencies for business in 2022, according to Gartner, Inc. A February poll centered on bitcoin adoption showed 84% of finance leaders said they would never hold bitcoin as a corporate asset and pointed to a range of risks associated with holding the currency.