Use cases for mobile virtual reality (Gartner)
Mobile Virtual Reality (VR) is ready for organizations to achieve value with, today. Realizing the technology still has a lot of maturity and growth expected, and needed, there is still no reason to keep organizations [...]
Survey Analysis: Wearable Devices need to be More Useful (Gartner)
High Abandonment Rates Indicate the Need for More Compelling Value Propositions to Drive Greater Adoption The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29 percent, and 30 percent for fitness trackers, because people do not find them [...]
11 Wearables Stats that Will Blow You Away
http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/11/24/11-wearables-stats-that-will-blow-you-away.aspx Wearable devices are often considered the next major extension of mobile computing. However, many investors might not know much about this market beyond the Apple(NASDAQ:AAPL) Watch or Fitbit's (NYSE:FIT) fitness trackers. Therefore, let's dig deeper into this growing market [...]
5 Ways Tech is Rewriting Society’s Rules
Technology is advancing so rapidly that we will experience radical changes in society not only in our lifetimes but in the coming years. We have already begun to see ways in which computing, sensors, artificial [...]
Augmented Reality Market Size Report, 2024
The Augmented Reality (AR) market size was USD 640.2 million in 2015. The increasing scope of applications across different industries, such as medical, retail, and automotive is expected to drive demand over the forecast period. [...]
10 Industries to see Disruption by Virtual Reality (Proteams)
On the other hand, some are quite skeptic about these technologies suggesting that they will be new failures like Google Glass due to UX issues. We believe that these technologies have a huge potential for [...]
Global Smartwatch units Sold 2014-2018 (Statistic)
Find more statistics at Statista Smartwatch unit sales worldwide from 2014 to 2018 (in millions) The statistic shows forecast unit sales of smartwatches worldwide from 2014 to 2018. In 2018, sales of smartwatches are forecast [...]
Global Wearables Shipment Forecast, by Device (Business Insider)
This research report highlights the key features, forecasts, trends and market dynamics needed to spur adoption of wearable smartwatch devices. Source: Smartwatch & Wearables Research: Forecasts, trends, market, use cases - Business Insider
AT&T’s Houston Foundry Chief Morris Talks Connecting Healthcare to Technology | Xconomy
http://www.xconomy.com/texas/2016/10/17/atts-houston-foundry-chief-morris-talks-connecting-healthcare-to-technology/ AT&T’s Houston Foundry Chief Morris Talks Connecting Healthcare to Technology Angela Shah 10/17/16 Houston—Nadia Morris, the head of innovation for AT&T’s Connected Health Foundry at the Texas Medical Center, calls herself a “constant tinkerer.” [...]
Report: Smartwatch Sales not falling — Shipments Increase 60% year-on-year (IDC)
Are smartwatch sales tanking? Analysts are divided. A recent IDC report suggesting that smartwatch shipments plummeted by 50 percent over the past year has been rebuffed by rival analyst firm Canalys this week. On the back of IDC’s claim that total [...]
Aetna insurance will subsidize the Apple Watch
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/28/technology/aetna-apple-watch/ Aetna insurance will subsidize the Apple Watch By Hope King September 28, 2016 10:13AM EDT If you want an Apple Watch to keep track of your health, Aetna might help you pay for it. [...]
SmartWatch Market Declined 52% for Q3 2016.
It seems like smartwatch fans are numbered. Smartwatch sales declined 51.6% worldwide to 2.7 million in the third quarter, compared to 5.6 million shipments a year earlier, according to a new report published by International Data [...]
Wearable Market Value $150 Billion by 2026 (Report)
Wearables Market are going to stay for long! A new report predicts that the wearable market will be literally worth whopping $150 Billion by 2016. In the event that these figures don’t sound insightful to [...]
10nm Snapdragon is taped out
Qualcomm's CEO confirmed it Last week Qualcomm’s CEO confirmed to its investors that the company has taped out its 10nm system on a chip (SoC). This news kind of went unnoticed and we have decided [...]
Internet of Things: Securing Medical & Patient Data | ARM
Securing Medical & Wellness Data Your health data is one of most important pieces of a data that is personal and confidential to you. Through the advent of sensor innovations we are finding many more [...]
How Smart Cities (will) Work
These days, the word “smart” is being applied to anything with a processor or a sensor and a connection to a network of some sort. You can argue that having some processing power for information and [...]
Google building two Android Wear Smartwatches integrating Google Assistant
Speaking to Android Police, a reliable source has told us that Google is currently building two Android Wear devices - possibly Nexus-branded - for release some time after the latest Nexus phones are announced. One watch will [...]