Do you have a landline phone at home? Nearly half of U.S. homes do not, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks phone ownership in this country as a part of its National Health Interview Survey. In business, it’s becoming more commonplace to dial voice calls from laptops and transfer calls…

A Malaysian organisation has created a new logo marking halal products made by Muslim businesses.The Malaysian Institute of International Islamic Corporation (Ikiam) and the Malaysian Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) say the logo will be designed and produced early next year. Only 11% of Muslim-owned companies are currently registered as halal-compliant for the export…

The market for wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment is growing, both for enterprises and consumers.Overall, across both consumer and enterprise, analyst firm IDC reports that there was 6.7 percent revenue growth year-over-year in the second quarter of 2016. Enterprise growth is stronger than consumer, with IDC reporting 9.4 percent revenue growth for the strongest…

Although additive manufacturing has made some impressive gains over traditional subtractive manufacturing, the battle of manufacturing between these two technologies is far from over.Consider a trio of recent market forecasts from SmarTech, Infiniti Research Ltd. and Technavio; the first covers additive manufacturing with metal powders, while the second and third focus on machining centers. Despite…

For years, teachers, principals, and technologists have looked for ways to enhance the educational experience with new techniques. The days of black boards, binded cover books are over, with the rate of adoption in digital learning among corporate organizations and academic institutes growing., Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, growing usage of wearable e-learning devices,…

Buttoned-down Unilever just paid $1 billion dollars for the Dollar Shave Club. The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 million subscribers. The deal is full of intriguing details. Unilever paid five times what Dollar…

The global nuclear medicine market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 8 percent from 2016 to 2020. What’s driving its growth? According to a new Technavio market report, it’s the same conditions that are topping global mortality lists — cardiovascular disease and cancer. Over 14 million new cases of…

Slow growth and the volatile macroenvironment are real-time ongoing concerns for Ingersoll Rand (IR). There was steady demand for HVAC products in the residential and transportation businesses of the Climate and Industrials segments, respectively. This has given an impetus to IR’s 2Q16 organic order book by 3%. According to Technavio’s research, the global HVAC market…

According to Technavio, the need to cut costs in the procurement process, modernizing indirect procurement processes, managing risk and automation are behind the forecasted 15.77 percent compound annual growth rate expected for this industry between 2016 and 2020. “The outsourcing of business processes helps firms to gain access to local talent, advanced technologies and skilled…

According to new research from Technavio, as the Internet of Things begins to grow in popularity, no smart home will be complete without at least one set of wireless Bluetooth speakers. Portable speakers that sync with tablets, smartphones, PCs and TVs are already a huge hit among consumers and every Consumer Technology Association (formally the…