Pedro Hernandez

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) vendors will close out 2017 by generating $1.8 billion in sales for the year, a nine percent increase compared to 2016, according to a forecast from Strategy Analytics. By 2022, the market research firm expects sales to climb to $2.2 billion. VMware AirWatch is the current EMM king, having captured 19 […]

Despite the buzz surrounding blockchain, most coding projects based on the technology don’t make their way to completion, according to a study from Deloitte. Blockchain is best known as the distributed ledger technology that underpins Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Established IT giants and new startups have embraced blockchain in the hopes of creating an ecosystem […]

Retailers are banking on more than just the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive sales and make customers happy. A new forecast from ABI Research indicates that stores are also increasing their investments in wearable devices. The analyst firm predicts that in 2022, shipments of enterprise retail wearable devices will reach 10 million units after […]

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Broadcom made a massive, albeit unsolicited bid for mobile processor specialist Qualcomm on Nov. 6. The company is offering $70 per share of Qualcomm stock (in cash and stock), or a whopping $130 billion, to snap up the chip designer that helped spark the mobile revolution. If the bid is accepted, it will be the […]

IDC’s latest analysis of the tablet market finds that vendors are becoming increasingly stuck between a rock and a hard place, namely smartphones and PCs. According to the analyst firm, tablet shipments dropped to 40 million units worldwide during the third quarter (Q3) of 2017, a 5.4 percent year-over-year decline. As it turns out, a […]

What Galaxy Note 7? The Galaxy Note8’s successful launch on September 15 helped distance Samsung from the Note 7 debacle of 2016. So far, the Note8’s batteries have proven to be much safer than those in its fire-prone predecessor. The latest flagship phone from the South Korean electronics giant has also been generally met with […]

The buzz surrounding the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and its brisk growth is warranted, suggests data from a recent Verizon study. Verizon-based IoT network connections surged by a whopping 84 percent between 2016 and 2017 in the manufacturing industry, according to the telecommunication giant’s recent State of the Market: Internet of Things 2017 report […]

Amazon, already an online retailing behemoth, can also take credit for revolutionizing the way businesses acquire and pay for their IT resources nowadays. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing unit, remains the cloud vendor to beat, in spite of growing competition from major rivals in recent years. The market for cloud computing solutions continues […]

ServiceNow uncovered more evidence that machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can help businesses run a tighter and potentially more profitable ship. The company’s recent survey (PDF) of 500 CIOs from 11 countries, conducted by Oxford Economics, revealed that more than half (52 percent) of enterprises are using machine learning software to automate […]