Wearable device shipments reach record 148.4 million in Q3 2023

Worldwide shipments of wearable devices grew 2.6% year over year during the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23) and reached an all-time high for the third quarter of 148.4 million units,

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Which? highlights smart speakers, security cameras sharing data to social media, marketing firms

Which? research has found that smart home device owners are being asked to provide large amount of data to manufacturers, which could compromise their privacy and potentially result in them

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Huawei announces royalty rates for its patent license programmes

Huawei, announced royalty rates for its handsets, Wi-Fi, and IoT patent license programmes. Huawei has entered into patent licenses with both tech industry players such as Samsung and Oppo, and

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Taming the ‘Wild West’ of smart-home security to enable widespread adoption

One of the biggest obstacles for fulfilling the promise of smart-home technology has been lack of consumer confidence in device security. Smart-home devices are perceived to operate like the lawless

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Middle East and Africa wearables shipments rise 10% and market value climbs 25% in 2022, says IDC

The Middle East and Africa wearables market experienced annual growth in both unit and value terms for the whole of 2022, according to newly published insights from International Data Corporation

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Samsung announces ultra-wideband chipset with centimetre-level accuracy for mobile, automotive devices

Samsung Electronics, an advanced semiconductor technology, has announced its ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100. With single-digit centimetre accuracy, the new UWB solution is optimised for use in mobile,

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eSIM market ‘worth over $4bn globally’ in 2023 says Juniper Research

Hampshire, UK. 10 January 2023 – A new Juniper Research study says the value of the global eSIM market will increase from US$4.7 billion (€4.37 billion) in 2023, to $16.3 billion (€15.16 billion) by 2027. The

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LEXI develops universal IoT platform for easing IoT experience

Berkeley, United States – LEXI, the company behind the comprehensive IoT technologies that are transforming how both enterprises and consumers manage and automate their smart spaces, announced the LEXI IoT

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What Matter? – The newly smart home standard

Matter is an industry-unifying IoT wireless network standard that still needs to be released. It strives to become a reliant, frictionless, safe communication basis for connected objects. The project was

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New ambient computing from Wiliot to enable the massive IoT

San Diego, 22 September 2022 – Wiliot, the Internet of Things provider whose IoT platform is enabling trillions of “things” to gain intelligence, will premier its breakthrough ambient computing technology the

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Plume’s latest market report reveals major shifts in smart home usage

Palo Alto, United States – Plume, a personalised communications services provider, has released its first biannual Plume IQ smart home market report. It aims to provide comprehensive intelligence about the growth

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Despite post-pandemic slump worldwide wearable shipments to reach 344mn by the end of 2022, says ABI

London, United Kinggdom. 11 August, 2022 – Demand for wearables and accessories slowed during 2021 due to economic and geopolitical factors impacting consumer’s priorities. Yet, despite this decline, global technology

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Workz launches eSIM cloud

Dubai. 29 November 2021 – IoT solutions provider Workz has expanded its eSIM subscription management solution to offer a GSMA certified cloud-based platform in the US. The platform, which is

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to unveil new AI technologies, products in GTC Keynote

NVIDIA announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a news-filled keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from some of the

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WBA openRoaming primed for residential rollout after Wi-Fi 6 trial with Airties over in-home Wi-Fi

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) reported the completion of a successful proof-of-concept trial to automatically onboard Wi-Fi client devices to a residential Wi-Fi 6 network, paving the way for the rollout of WBA

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US PC shipments rocket 73% in a year driven by backlog orders

The PC market in the United States grew 73% year on year in Q1 2021, with total shipments of desktops, notebooks, tablets and workstations exceeding 34 million units. Notebooks and

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