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A new study from Juniper Research found that MaaS (Mobility‑as‑a‑Service) will generate revenue of $92 billion globally by 2027, up from $20 billion in 2022.

Analyst firm Gartner has identified three factors influencing growth in security spending.

China’s Shanghai has been ranked as the world’s number one smart city for 2022 ahead of the Korean capital Soeul in second place.

Huawei Consumer Business Group yesterday announced its performance results for the third quarter of 2015, reporting it’s on target to ship 100 million units by the year’s end.

Total spending on all IT and communications hardware, software and services in Australia will reach $76 billion this year, up 2.3% on 2013.

Australia is up there with other Asia Pacific countries in continuing a steady increase in IT investment in the healthcare sector. China is the fastest growing IT spender, with a new market report showing an expected APAC region annual growth rate in IT spending on healthcare of 8%.

Global device shipments will rise 6.9% this year. And next year Android will power more than half of all devces (tablets, phones and PCs combined).

SaaS is an ‘industry darling’ with massive growth, but that growth needs to be properly managed. There are many challenges posed by the wholesale shift to mobile applications.

IDC has lowered its estimate of future ICT spending in Australia. The analyst firm is now predicting a 3.0% compound annual growth rate through to 2016.

After several years of the research, global mobile industry body has come out with what it says are definitive data on mobile device penetration: global mobile subscriber numbers of 3.2 billion and total active connections of 5.9 billion by the end of 2012.

The mobile industry and its proponents are forever talking of mobile networks delivering increasing throughput at lower costs and competing strongly with fixed broadband networks like the NBN. The reality will be very different, according to one analyst firm.

Cisco has released its latest global IP traffic forecasts - for the first time breaking out Australian specific data, which includes the forecast that, by 2015, Australian mobile networks will be carrying 149 petabytes per month as a result of data volumes doubling ever year from their 2010 level of just five petabytes per month.

In the latest, and most bullish, of analyst forecasts predicting the dominance of Android, Gartner is forecasting Android to command nearly half of worldwide smartphone market by end of 2012.

Worldwide telecoms service provider revenues grew by only 2.2 percent year-on-year in 2009, making it the industry's worst year in a decade, according to market analyst firm, Ovum.

For at least 18 months Cisco has been talking about a global UC market worth $US27 billion, and Frost & Sullivan has just estimated the Australian US services market at $A608 million, but research firm ABI puts the global market at a mere $US302 million in 2008 and says it will be only $US4.2 billion by 2014.

Frost & Sullivan has estimated that the Australian market for unified communication services reached a record value of $608.7 million in 2008, driven by increased demand for cost-saving technologies such as video and collaboration, but has warned that the market is getting tougher for systems integrators as a result of mergers and acquisitions among major players.