By 2018, 40 percent of outsourced services will leverage smart machine technologies, rendering the offshore model obsolete for competitive advantage, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Analyst firm Gartner is forecasting that 274.6 million wearable electronic devices will be sold worldwide in 2016, an increase of 18.4 percent from 232.0 million units in 2015.
A recent study by Gartner found that 8.5 percent of public companies in the sample use cloud email from Microsoft's Office 365 service, while 4.7 percent use Google Apps for Work.
Despite the holiday season, the worldwide tablet market declined yet again in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15) with 65.9 million units shipped, down -13.7% year-over-year, according to preliminary data from research firm IDC.
The ongoing issue of liquid crystal display (LCD) oversupply -- exacerbated by China?s aggressive investment in production capacity as well as high fab utilization -- will continue well into 2016.
With the recent introduction of the compute stick form factor ? products such as Asus Chromebit, Intel Compute Stick, and Lenovo Ideacentre Stick 300 ? the market fills yet another gap in which existing devices are suboptimal for specific use cases.
For the full year, the worldwide smartphone market saw a total of 1,432.9 million units shipped, marking the highest year of shipments on record, up 10.1% from the 1301.7 million units shipped in 2014.
Lenovo retained the top spot in 2015 despite a drop in its home base in China as it won large shares in India and Thailand?s education projects, while making significant headway in the ANZ (Australia and New Zealand) consumer space.
According to research findings, toy/hobbyist drone shipments accounted for 30% of consumer UAV revenue in 2014, while the prosumer segment captured 69%.
