Telecom TeraGo has acquired a former BlackBerry-managed data center in Mississauga, Ontario, its fourth acquisition in the last two years. The company has been expanding its data center footprint in Canada and now operates around 40,000 square feet of data center space. TeraGo is another telecom getting deeper into cloud services in order to…
If healthy economic activity continues, the merchandising sector is anticipated to reap large benefits. Euromonitor International recently conducted a study on the matter, estimating $19.6 trillion in retail sales by 2019. Overall, this activity is expected to be supported by a burgeoning Western European sector and Chinese trade. “Western Europe registered its biggest increase since…
Medical applications are driving robust growth in the global micromolding sector, according to a new market report from TechNavio (Elmhurst, IL). The medical segment of the micromolding market is expected to surpass $234 million in revenue by 2018, with overall micromolding growing globally by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.5% between 2014…
The advances in the field of robotics in the last few years have been significant, and are what have been driving the widespread adoption and use of robots in militaries around the world. Just this fall, the Boston Consulting Group projected that the market for robots in general will grow to an estimated $67 billion…
Against their trend, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) showcased Android 5.0 Lollipop as Android L, during Google I/O 2014, before it was even completely developed. We have extensively explained about the best new features of Android 5.0 and it is safe to say that Android 5.0 Lollipop is the biggest change to their mobile device operating system…
The annual survey of pallet user trends conducted by Modern Materials Handling magazine has some interesting findings this year. For starters, pallet strength and durability saw a significant increase when it came to key factors in purchasing decisions. Pallet strength was up 7% compared to the previous year while durability rose 4%, which…
The global VoLTE (Voice over LTE) market should see explosive growth over the next few years, with the number of connections growing to 900 million, a CAGR of over 140 percent. That’s the word from global research company TechNavio, which believes the technology is too compelling for both providers and users to increase in…
Akamai Technologies, an engineering-heavy company that delivers a sizable chunk of the Internet’s total traffic every day, is generally inclined to solve its technology challenges in house. Corey Scobie, vice president for Open Platform at Akamai, summarizes the company’s default engineering culture and philosophy as, simply, “We should built it.” But Akamai, a content delivery…
The AllSeen Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration to advance the Internet of Everything through an open source software project, has announced an initiative designed to change how people think about and interact with lighting in their homes and businesses. The Alliance’s Connected Lighting Working Group will develop ways for IP-enabled, multi-colour LED lamps to work in…
Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI), the experts in multi-screen video software solutions, today announced that it has been named as a company that is leading the global video services for the connected TV industry, along with Comcast, DIRECTV, Hulu and Netflix, according to TechNavio Research. The report, “Global Video Services on Connected TV Market 2014-2018,” predicts this…
