Despite a decline in shipments for one of the largest vendors, the overall market for wearable devices grew 26.1% year-over-year as new use cases are slowly starting to emerge.
Online hiring across Singapore and the Philippines? IT sector witnessed continuous growth in July 2016, as employers push to hire talent in this space.
Domestic service robots are devices that autonomously carry out indoor and outdoor household chores, and they include vacuum cleaners, floor cleaners, window cleaners, lawn mowers, pool cleaners, as well as robots used for social and edutainment purposes and robotic kitchen/chefs.
Another revelation from the study was that the happiest Filipino employees came from the public sector, based in Bicol Region, six months to one year in their jobs, fresh graduates, and specializing in hospitality industry.
In terms of market share, the overall smartphone market remains dominated by Samsung, followed by Oppo, True (an operator in Thailand), Asus, and Lava.
With ABI Research forecasting more than 120 million voice-enabled devices to ship annually by 2021, voice control, which combines speech recognition and natural language processing, is quickly becoming the key user interface within the smart home.
Global sales of smartphones to end-users totaled 344 million units in the second quarter of 2016, a 4.3-percent increase over the same period in 2015, according to research firm Gartner.
The use cases that will generate the largest revenues for 3D printing in 2016 are Automotive Design ? Rapid Prototype Printing (more than $4.0 billion) and Aerospace and Defense Parts Printing (nearly $2.4 billion).
The industries leading the way in public cloud services spending are discrete manufacturing, banking, and professional services, representing nearly a third of total worldwide revenues in 2016.
