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COVID-19 Helps Drive Growth for Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) in 2020
December 21st, 2020COVID-19 Blurs the Line Between Workplace Safety & Employee Monitoring
December 15th, 2020The Post-COVID Office Return Lays the Foundation for Human-Centric Workplaces
This time last year, medical professionals in Wuhan, China, began to report cases of a “viral pneumonia of unknown cause” and the rest, as they say, is history. By March a global pandemic had been announced by the WHO and much of Europe and North America had been engulfed by the coronavirus, triggering lockdowns and […]
Second Waves Drown Hope of a Return to the Office
In February, when the coronavirus epidemic became a global pandemic, few would have sincerely predicted that the crisis would have continued to the situation we find ourselves in today. As of mid-October, less than 15% of office workers have returned in New York City, the largest office market in the US, according to the Partnership […]
How COVID-19 & the Recession Will Impact the Tech Industry
The swift and massive shock of the coronavirus pandemic and shutdown measures to contain it have plunged the global economy into a severe contraction. According to World Bank forecasts, the global economy will shrink by 5.2% this year. That decline represents the deepest recession since the Second World War, the World Bank says in its […]
NVIDIA Looks Well Positioned to Strong-ARM the Entire Technology Sector
“Thirty years ago, a visionary team of computer scientists in Cambridge, UK, invented a new CPU architecture optimized for energy-efficiency and a licensing business model that enables broad adoption. Engineers designed ARM CPUs into everything from smartphones and PCs to cloud data centers and supercomputers. An astounding 180 billion computers have been built with ARM […]
Phishing for Digital Empathy in a Zero Trust Cybersecurity Landscape
While the COVID-19 pandemic presents very real biological threats, the necessary social distancing policies have forced us to rely on a digital world that presents very real cyber threats. From an almost overnight shift to mass remote working, to a sharp rise in opportunistic cyberattacks, the crisis has tested every company’s cyber resilience. Cybersecurity systems […]
Big Tech Still Loves Smart Buildings
Despite the turbulence of 2020, smart buildings are still high on the agenda for the world’s biggest technology companies. This week, Samsung and Microsoft announced a global collaboration focused on digitally transforming the real estate development and property management industries. While pushing out the standard promises and benefits for all stakeholders, the collaboration actually makes […]
The Longer We Stay Away from the Office, The More We Change the Landscape of Work
A few months ago, and for the previous seven decades, the vast majority of employees around the world would travel to their workplace each work-day, share that space with colleagues, and then return home. Remote and flexible working trends were increasing, the freelance gig-economy was growing, but until a few months ago “going to work” […]
The Increasingly Important Role of Body Worn Cameras in Law Enforcement
The use of body worn cameras has been an ongoing topic of discussion in global law enforcement since at least the mid-2000’s. Whilst adoption of the technology has been mixed since then, in this article we examine the market potential and evidence for and against their use. The introduction of body worn cameras is intended […]