Information Technology

Companies that leverage the huge amount of information available today and in the near future will improve decision making and enable the accurate delivery of advanced functionality such as predictive insights. Pervasive, or ubiquitous, computing is gradually helping technologists worldwide to realize the IoT vision. This study offers five examples...

As the proliferation of wearable devices increases, newer market applications emerge. The smart home market is an attractive opportunity for employing wearable devices. A nascent market, it is important for smart home and wearable vendors to understand the market potential and prepare for the evolution of the smart home ecosystem. In this report, F...

The payment industry is transforming rapidly with many interesting technologies emerging on a regular basis. Most of these solutions are disruptive and strongly impact the way companies and individuals communicate and interact. As a result, the payment ecosystem is also changing.

The information technology and mobile phone revolution is bringing much needed economic change to emerging countries. However, the pace of growth requires rapid acceleration. As of 2014, 60% of the global population did not have access to the Internetwith 56% out of this 60% living in emerging countries. The study examines the need for a collabor...

Blockchains are a new data structure that is secure, cryptography-based, and distributed across a network. The technology supports cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and the transfer of any data or digital asset. Spearheaded by Bitcoin, blockchains achieve consensus among distributed nodes, allowing the transfer of digital goods without the need for...

Open Data has sparked increasing excitement in recent years. It reflects data that had previously been locked away and limited in application to uses by the data owner opening up to the general public.

The hottest trend in machine learning is to give away stuff for free. Tech companies have always been advocates of the open-source community and often release code using an open-source license. Over the last year, however, market leaders in machine learning have given away complete codebases.

Bitcoin is the first successful digital currency. Its success lies in its ability to create consensus for a transaction database, a blockchain, between a large number of independent sources, or nodes. Bitcoin has a number of unique and powerful properties. Envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s consensus allows transaction between mutually unk...

As the largest event in the world dedicated to the future of cities, the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona brought together urban planners, public administrators, and technology innovators to debate a more citizen-centric vision for the connected urban space.