Apple and Huawei saw their European smartphone market shares fall in the second quarter as Samsung took its stake to above 40 percent, according to Canalys.
Canalys said that Apple fell by 17 percent and Huawei fell by 16 percent respectively, as Samsung increased its dominance with its A-Series range of devices.
Canalys said that Samsung moved fast to take advantage of Huawei’s woes as the vendor continues to be restricted by the US government.
Chipmaker Intel has earned a big reputation for security in the servers, storage, and networking sector, according to beancounters at GlobalData.
Chipzilla gained the highest “Thematic” score (five out of five) for the cybersecurity theme in GlobalData’s Thematic Scorecard for the servers, storage, and networking sector. A Thematic score of five out of five indicates that the company’s competitive position in this theme will significantly improve its future performance.
The NHS is opening a national artificial intelligence lab (AI) to boost medical research and patient care.
The AI lab is intended to bring together academics, specialists and technology companies to solve some of the biggest challenges faced by the NHS.
For example, the lab could help develop tools for better early cancer detection, new dementia treatments and more personalised care.
Chipzilla has said that laptops verified through its Project Athena programme will carry a sticker “Engineered for mobile performance”.
Designed to draw customers to the laptops that meet the program’s target specification and key experience indicators (KEI), the identifier can be found for the first time with the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop – one of the first Project Athena systems.
The branding will also be visible alongside the HP Elitebook 1040 and 830 machines arriving over the coming weeks, and additional machines from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung before the end of the year.
Ebuyer has got its paws on police figures that found since 2015 there had been a nine percent increase in the number of reported thefts affecting businesses.
Out of the 23 police constabularies that responded to the data request, 19 said that they had been dealing with rising numbers of business-related thefts between 2015 and 2018.
Ebuyer found that the average value of the stolen goods taken has increased by more than £2 million since 2015.
BIOS IT and SuperMicro have announced the general availability of their latest range of AMD EPYC processor kit.
AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors are expected to deliver up to 2X the performance-per socket and up to 4X peak FLOPS (floating-point operations per second), per-socket compared to the AMD EPYC 7001 Series Processors are expected to give Chipzilla (Intel) a run for its money.
Sharp Business Systems UK has bought support services firm Complete IT as part of its cunning plan to boost its UK IT market presence.
Complete IT has been providing IT support and cloud solutions for a quarter of a century.
Sharp managing director Stuart Sykes said that Complete IT had a similar customer approach to Sharp.
V12 Telecom, a privately-owned telecommunications company based in Swindon, Wiltshire has partnered with Highlight to gain greater visibility into its networks and applications and thus enhance the services it delivers to partners and end customers.
V12 Telecom provides internet services, hosted voice, mobile and direct routing to small and medium sized organisations, many of whom are introduced via IT partners. V12 implemented Highlight earlier this year to gain real-time analysis and visibility into the performance of all its services.
Analysts at Kyocera have highlighted the need to concentrate on people as well as technology when rolling out digital projects.
In its recent report, Kyocera found that the people element was one of the crucial factors in deeming if a strategy would be successful or not.
Kyocera expert software product management Michael Powell said: “All companies know that the basis for evolution is to carry out a process of digital transformation.”Although it is important to know that Digital Transformation is more than just about moving towards digitalisation, it is rather a slow process of transition rather than jumping in at the deep end with swathes of automated processes and digitised documentation right from the off.
Insight might have had a disappointing sales year, but you can’t really tell because its increased margins made the outfit look extremely healthy.
The company saw its net sales remain flat year-on-year and earnings from operations decrease by three per cent but gross profit improved by four percent to $275.4 million as the business moved to higher margin areas, including cloud solutions and its hardware sales. Net sales in EMEA were down by seven percent in the quarter, coming in at $379.2 million.
Cloudy outfit Puzzel UK is hosting Get Connected 2019, its annual event for contact centre professionals on Thursday, 19 September at the China Exchange, a former BT telephone exchange in London’s Chinatown.
The half-day free conference, entitled Welcome to the hybrid workforce – humans and technology working together – will explore how contact centres are seeking to blend the best that man and machine have to offer to drive operational efficiencies and customer engagement.
The wearable tech industry was worth nearly $23 billion in 2018 and is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 per cent to reach $54 billion by 2023, according to GlobalData beancounters.
The company’s latest report: ‘Wearable Tech – Thematic Research’ says that the consumer market growth will be driven by sales of smartwatches, which are gaining in popularity as the range of features they offer (including cellular connectivity, health monitoring, and contactless payment) increases. In contrast, fitness tracker sales are falling, due to their limited capabilities when compared to smartwatches.
UK SMEs are potentially losing out on a third of all enterprise contracts because their cybersecurity and cyber fraud credentials aren’t up to snuff.
Research from CybSafe, the training and data analytics platform, has revealed that the threat to supply chain businesses at an all-time high.
CybSafe’s survey of crucial SME decision-makers in the UK has discovered that, over the last 12 months, nearly 37 percent of organisations have been required to achieve a recognised cybersecurity standard by their enterprise customers before successfully securing contracts. This represented a rise of nine per cent from 2017’s study results when only 28 percent were obliged to prove their proficiency in cybersecurity.
Global technology provider Arrow Electronics and Greenwave Systems, a global software leader for managed services and Industrial IoT edge analytics have announced an EMEA distribution agreement.
The deal involves Greenwave’s AXON Predict that delivers the power of edge intelligence and provides businesses with the information they need to understand and optimise their assets. The solution will be available through Arrow`s cloud marketplace ArrowSphere.
Identity platform Auth0 is to double the size of its UK team by the end of 2019 after seeing rapid growth in its European markets.
The company has announced 165 percent year-on-year growth in the EMEA market, which now accounts for almost 30 per cent of Auth0’s global revenue.
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