Regulations on seat belts, cellphone use, car seats and everything else that goes on behind the wheel are aiming to make the roads safer for everyone. Even cars themselves are trying to keep us safe, with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) being seen in more and more new models. These systems aim to reduce the…
Over the past few years, the Commercial Aircraft Industry has faced rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices. In 2003, ATF prices accounted for only 13 percent of operating expenses of a commercial airline. As of 2012, ATF costs are five times greater than in 2003, accounting for 33 percent of operating costs. In order to…
In the days of bright, beautiful displays and data crunching apps, it’s not a tall order to burn through your phone’s battery in a matter of hours. But constantly reaching for the wall plug is a bit of a bummer and means that your mobile device all of a sudden isn’t. But what if our…
Apache Hadoop is non-relational data storage solution, which uses simple programming models to process large date sets across clusters of computers. The platform has scalability capabilities from single servers to thousands of machines, and includes four modules—Hadoop Common, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS™), Hadoop YARN, and Hadoop MapReduce. Hadoop Technology Highlights: Major differentiating factor is…
The World Energy Council has estimated an additional 100 GW of energy will be required to sustain rapid growth in Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the next 10 years. According to analysts from TechNavio, an independent research firm, “GCC countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE are witnessing rapid growth in…
Smart food, functional foods, superfood…call it what you will, but in our health-conscious society, nearly everything we put in our bodies has been enriched, enhanced, fortified or otherwise ‘improved’ to offer additional nutrition and disease fighting superpowers. The nifty additives used to achieve these health benefits are called nutraceuticals, and the Global Nutraceutical Ingredients Market…
10 years ago, if we told you that in a few years, you’d be able to control the lights in your house with your mobile phone, you’d have thought we were nuts! But with a connected home, that’s exactly what you can do; and it doesn’t stop at lighting. In fact, connected home technology has…
TechNavio publishes new market research reports on a weekly basis. Last week, TechNavio analysts published 18 reports. Here is a snapshot of report titles that were published: Engineering and Automation Global Offshore Drilling Market 2014-2018 Construction and Engineering Industry in Australia 2014-2018 Global Gas Insulated Switchgear Market 2014-2018 Healthcare, Chemicals, Food & Retail Global Pain Management Drugs Market 2014-2018…
A direct correlation between air pollution and cancer in developing regions like China have led to a surge in radiation equipment for cancer treatment in these areas. The Global Radiation Therapy Equipment Market is growing at a CAGR of 6.04 percent from 2014-2018, and while the Americas still dominate the market with approximately 50 percent…
This past February, CompatibleOne, a cloud-service broker, launched CompatibleOne Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) in support of the world’s first open source Cloud Service Brokerage platform. “Based on the feedback we get from customers, we identify a clear need for more transparency, security and interoperability in the cloud. Therefore the existence of an open source broker…
