With Black Friday on the horizon it is as good a time as any to explore retail trends - and the Boston Consulting Group has just released new research exploring e-commerce trends from the beginning of the pandemic to the present. After tremendous acceleration...

The Internet has become such an integral part of our daily lives that we often do not even think about how much we rely on it. But if the Internet were to go down globally for even just a single day, the economic impact would be enormous. Such interruption of online...

The ability of organisations to realize business value from data increasingly depends on their capacity to collect, process, store and analyse it at the edge. New research from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, finds that as networks become increasingly...

The smart home market in EMEA declined 7,2% in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to research by International Data Corporation (IDC). The market accounted for 20,287-million units between April and June. "Almost...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71,4-million units in the third quarter of 2020, a 3,6% increase from the third quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Consumer demand for PCs due to home entertainment and distance learning needs during the...

The relationship between employers and employees has shifted significantly due to the major transformation in the way people work, and how organisations are thinking about the future, according to Gartner. Today's new employment deal centers on positively impacting...

The digitalisation of industrial infrastructure is underway and 55% of organisations globally are confident that the Internet of Things, as one of its key aspects, will change the state of security in industrial control systems (ICS). According to Kaspersky's recent...

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – As the world of work changes, design thinking is driving a new way of developing solutions. Venanzio Arquilla, associate professor at POLI.Design University in Milan, says the role of design thinking is key in the move to...

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – High-performance computing is leading the fight against Covid-19. Research around the novel coronavirus is just one of the tasks being performed by the Fugaku supercomputer, jointly developed by Riken and Fujitsu and ranked as...

Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – Innovation is important to Fujitsu’s identity, and this has stood the company in good stead in 2020. Hidenori Furuta, chief technology officer, points out that Fujitsu recently celebrated its 85th anniversary. “During that...