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Mobile World Congress 201925-28 February 2019 | Barcelona, SpainMeet our Media & Technology analysts at Mobile World Congress 2019.
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Energy Storage Inverter (PCS) Report - 2018Energy storage inverter supplier base continues to expand despite intense price pressureOctober 17, 2018The growth of the energy storage market offers suppliers of inverters a huge growth opportunity, across a wide range of applications and regions. Many existing providers of solar inverters and industrial power electronics have moved to take a leading position in this growth market.Subscribers Only
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Blockchain in IoT Report - 2018April 03, 2018Blockchain is a distributed digital ledger technology which is used to record various types of transactions. In addition to being distributed, blockchain utilises cryptography and timestamps to provide a permanent record of interactions and is immutable - data cannot be (easily) altered or falsified.Subscribers Only
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3.4 Billion Smartphones Ready for Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay by the End of 2017April 26, 2017According to new analysis from IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, 3.4 billion smartphones will be ready for Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay by the end of 2017, and the number is expected to increase to 5.3 billion by 2021.
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Singles’ Day: Alibaba breaks sales record with more than $17 billionNovember 17, 2016Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba broke its one day sales record “Singles’ Day” (November 11th) with more than $17 billion by the end of the day, 82% of total sales were made through wireless devices.
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Samsung’s Alipay partnership marks real entry into China’s mobile payments marketMay 25, 2016Samsung Pay is currently only available for a limited range of recent high-end Samsung smartphones and so has a much smaller addressable market than the device agnostic Alipay. Apple Pay has also recently launched in China; IHS estimates that there are round seven times more active Apple Pay smartphones in China than those that support Samsung Pay. Both Apple and Samsung’s addressable audience is dwarfed by their bigger domestic Chinese rivals. Samsung Pay’s strategy shows that it needs to partner with potential competitors to gain user adoption and is a significant step to further extend its availability among Chinese users.
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Consumer Survey - Digital Health and Wearable Technology - 2016May 18, 2016IHS conducted this survey to extract the latest consumer trends within digital health and wearable technology.Subscribers Only
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Alipay’s Next Step: Matchmaking European Merchants and Chinese TouristsApril 12, 2016Travelling abroad is becoming a fashion in China. According to China National Tourism Administration 120 million Chinese tourists spent $215 billion abroad in 2015, a 53% increase in expenditure compared to 2014. This ‘moving country’ formed by 120 million tourists, paves the ways of Alipay’s expansion to Europe. The payments service and customised location features will help Alipay gain adoption by bringing benefits for both Chinese travellers and European merchants...
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Samsung Pay’s magnetic tech is not enough to win ChinaApril 04, 2016Samsung will now be available in China. As with Apple and Google’s mobile payments services, Samsung Pay works with NFC terminals. However, unlike the other services, Samsung Pay is also compatible with existing magnetic stripe readers. Samsung’s cooperation with card-processor China UnionPay was an important step to extend the acceptance and provide convenient mobile payments service to its users. But it’s just the beginning of entering into the competition with WeChat and Alipay...
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Google plans Android Pay UK launchMarch 29, 2016In order to maximise its adoption by UK users, it is integral that Android Pay has a solid foundation of supporters upon launch of the service. These supporters include financial institutions, retailers, and payment platforms. Regarding the retailers, Android Pay will be available everywhere that contactless payments are accepted, such as Costa, Starbucks, Waitrose, and Boots. Significantly...
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Beyond LTE: Advancing to 5G Wireless TechnologyDecember 23, 2015Not long ago cellular enabled devices were used simply for humans to verbally communicate with one another, with telephone calls being the only viable option. Over the past two decades mobile broadband internet...
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Carrier Aggregation: Nowhere to Go but Up!October 01, 2015Up until now, this series has focused primarily on the downlink side of carrier aggregation (CA) as we explored what CA is, how it is currently deployed and what is available now. The downlink side is also how the industry has...
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Internet of Medical things at Qualcomm Life Connect 2015 – Analyst CommentarySeptember 21, 2015As Nariman Behravesh, lead economist with IHS, has noted “nurturing the process of innovation will ensure that the huge improvement in the human condition that has occurred over the past two centuries was not a fluke of history”. Indeed, nurturing innovation was the primary topic of conversation at Qualcomm Life Connect 2015 (Internet of Medical Things) held in San Diego during August 31 and September 1, 2015. With cautious optimism about short-term growth expectations for digital health, and more resolute optimism for growth in the long-term, the event brought together several key players in the digital health ecosystem that are making use of Qualcomm’s 2net/Healthy Circles connectivity platform. This article is a synopsis of Connect 2015 with additional insight from recent work that IHS has conducted in regard to digital health.
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Smart Clothing in Wearable Technologies Report - 2015August 25, 2015The world market for wearable technologies was worth an estimated $11.35 billion in 2014, up by nearly 18% from 2013. The market is continuously experiencing high growth, which is supported by demand from several wearable applications including medical, fitness, and infotainment.Subscribers Only
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Carrier Aggregation: Adoption Running on all CylindersJuly 30, 2015As mentioned in the previous article in this series, there are multiple levels of carrier aggregation or CA which enable different categories of LTE user equipment (UE) capability. Typically, the higher the level of CA...
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Carrier Aggregation: Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of its PartsMay 14, 2015Five years after the initial commercial launch of Long Term Evolution, the latest 4th generation cellular technology supporting fully mobile connectivity from devices such as smartphones and tablets, it is clear that consumer demand for faster and lower latency connectivity is far from ...
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Wearable Technology Consumer Survey - 2014July 31, 2014This study provides analysis of consumer adoption and awareness of wearable technology in the United States, the United Kingdom and China, serving as a guide to forecasting the market in the near-term.Subscribers Only
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With Android Wear, Google kickstarts its wearable portfolio using its smartphone developer baseMarch 20, 2014Android Wear is a new version of Android aimed at wearable devices. LG and Motorola will be among the first to launch smartwatches for the platform. Google is already seeding the market with an app development kit for Android Wear. Shrewdly, Google is leveraging Google Now as a key part of its wearable content and services. Unlike other wearable device makers, Google is able to leverage its extensive search capabilities which already provides bite-sized contextual content to Android smartphone owners.
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IHS News Flash: Fast Facts and Analysis of Today’s Smartwatch AnnouncementsSeptember 04, 2013This is a News Flash from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS) covering today’s smartwatch announcements from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Qualcomm Inc. Global...
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Sports and Fitness App Market to Expand by More Than 60 Percent in Five YearsJuly 11, 2013Global installations of mobile apps used for sports and fitness activities are set to rise by 63 percent from 2012 to 2017, generating strong potential demand for wearable health devices...
