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Manufacturing disruption, closed borders, remote working and learning, economic downturn - it might pay to get that purchase in now.
Four New Zealand projects, including two from Christchurch City Council, have been named finalists in IDC's prestigious Asia Pacific Smart Cities Awards.
AR and VR headsets will see shipments decline in the near term due to COVID-19, but the long-term outlook is positive, according to IDC.
IDC report analyses a range of factors that will affect the semiconductor market this year and presents the most likely scenario.
The worldwide server market had a strong fourth quarter in 2019, despite shipments and revenue declining for the full year.
Nutanix enhances its platform with Nutanix Objects 2.0, adding features for big data workloads, including multi-cluster support and increased storage capacity.
After AWS and Azure, Alibaba Cloud is the third biggest public cloud provider in the market and is showing no sign of slowing down.
Depending on how the economic factors around COVID-19 play out, a pessimistic scenario would see spending growth nowhere near the 4.3% expected.
Technologies such as mHealth, telehealth, and wearable devices to help pregnancy care, fertility, and menstrual care treatments while reducing costs.
The biggest increase in the use of data visualisation tools is expected to be in academia and research, financial services and healthcare.
The long list of ICT markets that are being disrupted by the virus' effect on manufacturing includes desktops, laptops, workstations and tablets.
Named as one of the leading service providers in the recently released IDC Perspective: Six Capabilities from Leading RPA Service Providers.
Gartner's 2020 Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant outlines the company's strengths and cautions.
Samsung's adoption of eSIM technology in its S20 range is set to surge global shipments to over 225 million, transforming the smartphone market.
The disruption to the manufacturing centres in China will cause a huge dip in the growth of the global smartphone market for 2020.
Apple and Xiaomi were the only top smartphone vendors to gain in Q4 2019, as global sales dipped 0.4% year over year, Gartner reports.
DXC Technology leverages AR/VR tech to streamline training for Ixom, significantly reducing costs and enhancing safety with Microsoft HoloLens.
The bank and cloud software company say the collaboration will enable businesses to minimise supply chain delays.
Organisations are increasingly looking for support outside OEMs to keep legacy infrastructure running and escape the sales pressure of vendors.
Despite COVID-19 fears, smart speaker shipments surged in Q4 2019. Amazon, Google, and Chinese vendors hit record highs, says Canalys.
