Scootersharing fleet to reach 2,6m in 2023

The scootersharing fleet is forecasted to grow from 14 400 vehicles worldwide in 2017 to more than 2,6-million vehicles in 2023. Market research report by IoT analyst firm Berg Insight indicates that the market today consists of traditional sit-down electric scooters...

AR/VR spending to top $20bn

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to be nearly $20,4-billion in 2019, an increase of 68.8% over the $12,1-billion International Data Corporation (IDC) expects will be spent this year. The latest update to IDC’s...

Japan could halt Huawei, ZTE procurement

Huawei’s global woes continue to intensify this week. Hot on the heels of Canada’s arrest of the company’s chief technology officer, reports are now swirling that the Japanese government plans to stop purchases of Huawei equipment, along with that of...
Long-term decline in wintertime arctic sea ice growth

Long-term decline in wintertime arctic sea ice growth

New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover. As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the...

5G to the rescue as hardware revenues drop

Total combined 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G infrastructure hardware revenues are forecast to bottom out at $49,7-billion in 2018, declining 8% over the previous year. Stéphane Téral, executive director, mobile infrastructure and carrier economics at IHS Markit, offers this...

European tablet sales up 21%

Volume sales of tablets through the distribution channel in Western Europe were up by +21% year-on-year in October 2018 following a return to growth earlier in the year, according to the latest distribution data published by Context. Much of the early Q4 growth was...