Pedro Hernandez

The third quarter of 2016 was a challenging time for Samsung’s smartphone division. The company was forced to recall its flagship Note 7 phablet after numerous report of battery fires, tarnishing the company’s reputation and casting doubts over the device’s future. A year later, those doubts appear to have vanished. Samsung captured 22.3 percent of […]

Amazon has considerable experience with the Internet of Things (IoT). Its Echo connected smart speakers have made their way into millions of homes, bringing with them Alexa, the company’s virtual assistant, along with a host of intelligent, voice-enabled services. Now, the cloud-computing giant wants to help other enterprises harness the IoT’s potential. During the AWS […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s leading cloud provider, and this week during its AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the company unveiled new offerings that may not only help it stay on top, but also push cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) workloads further into the IT mainstream. AWS unveiled no less than five new […]

Phablet, a portmanteau of phone and tablet, is poised to become the go-to smartphone form factor. Evidently, buyers are flocking to these large-screen smartphones. With screen sizes ranging from 5.5 inches to just under seven inches, phablets provide users with a comparatively generous canvas for taking pictures, capturing videos and running their favorite apps. Phablet […]

Is there anything artificial intelligence (AI) can’t do? Whether helping enterprises tidy up their supply chains or intelligently route help desk tickets, AI is proving to be a powerful ally in running a business today. Now, they can add multi-cloud management to the list. In a recent survey of 1,000 IT decision makers, BMC discovered […]

Large enterprises aren’t the only ones investing in machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Many mid-market companies are also pursuing AI-enabled business processes, according to a Deloitte study. After surveying 500 mid-market and private companies, each with annual revenues of $100 million to just over $1 billion, Deloitte discovered that more than half […]

Technology and business services providers are expected to cross some big milestones soon, according to market research firm IDC. In the first half of 2017, the world’s IT and business services companies generated $475.2 million in sales, a four percent year-over-year increase. And if IDC’s predictions are correct, the seemingly unstoppable cloud computing market will […]

The IT industry is positively bullish on blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), but not everyone in the corporate finance world is sold. In fact, only 11 percent of the 279 finance and treasury professionals that were recently polled by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) said their organizations were “fully” or “very” prepared […]

Issuing employees iPhones and Android smartphones is one of instilling a culture of on-the-go productivity. But with the benefits of getting work done practically anywhere, comes at a price, often a steep one. Forrester, in a survey of 303 business decision makers commissioned by Cisco, found that the vast majority of enterprises, nearly 90 percent, […]

Business executives are banking on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in hopes of unlocking more value out of their data and drive additional revenue. Rank-and-file office workers are also bullish over AI, but for different reasons. Nearly all (95 percent) of the 2,270 white-collar workers in a Cisco survey believe that AI and virtual assistants can […]