New Zealand VR/AR Association (NZVRARA) study says the term cross reality (XR) is increasingly being used to refer to the virtual-to-reality continuum of immersive technologies including augmented and mixed reality.
New Zealand has achieved strong representation in the shortlist for IDC’s Smart City Asia Pacific Awards 2017. New Zealand projects are finalists in six of the 14 award categories: Transportation; Public Works; Smart Grid; Smart Water; Connected Health; Tourism, Arts, Libraries, Culture, Open Spaces.
The current recession is almost the opposite of the 2001 downturn for Cisco Systems because of permanent cost-cutting and the company's move into new technologies and markets, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Monday.
The global economic downturn is making everyone's jobs harder, and IT security executives are in the hot seat, too, struggling to hold onto budgets and align IT security projects with business needs amid cost-cutting.
Economic woes slashed cell-phone sales growth in the third quarter of this year as consumers waited longer to replace their handsets, according to analyst firm Gartner, which predicts the market is likely to contract next year,
The faltering economy is now projected to claim another victim — the global PC market.
It's official: IT budgets, once so resilient in the face of three years of worsening economic news, aren't immune to the downturn after all.
Server shipments grew in this year's third quarter, though server revenue declined as companies lowered spending to meet budgetary constraints, according to a study released by Gartner.
With the global economy lurching towards recession, everyone is being asked to do more with less, and cutbacks and layoffs are weighing heavily on people's minds. But cutting costs in IT doesn't necessarily mean laying staffers off, deferring projects or reducing support. There are simple steps every company can take to significantly save money and improve the bottom line during these turbulent economic times.
These are tough times. Over the last decade you have most likely become used to some kind of more-or-less stable basis for how your business operates. Sorry, but that's all about to change because the economy is in serious trouble.
IT spending will drop next year as a direct result of global financial problems, according to analyst firm IDC. it will grow by less than half as much as earlier predicted by IDC.
The dismal economy may be hurting some software vendors' earnings reports and putting a crimp in IT budgets, but it has also created a buyer's market, according to users, consultants and industry observers.
Now what? In the face of a deepening business slowdown, a global credit crunch and a wildly fluctuating stock market, what should corporate IT departments do next? Gartner's top answer at its Symposium/ITxpo 2008 conference this month: Prepare for hiring freezes and layoffs.
About a year ago, a senior manager at German company Pilz left the company to work at a rival firm — and took some classified data about an unfinished vision-based camera safety system with him.
The economy may be in a recession, and the stock market may be going through convulsions -- prompting talk of possible hiring freezes and layoffs within IT departments. But at this point, data storage doesn't appear to be an area that many organisations are targeting for budget cuts.