Smart city initiatives forecast to reach $80 billion in 2018
Worldwide spending on the technologies that enable smart cities initiatives is forecast to reach $80 billion in 2018, according to the IDC (www.idc.com) research group.
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Apple releases new public betas of iOS 11.3, macOS 10.13.4
Apple has released new public betas of iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4. The public betas are available on Apple’s Beta Software Program website (https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/). Just remember that beta software is unfinished software, so proceed with care.
Apple does public betas in order to increase the size of the pool of testers. The tech giant recommends keeping back-ups of your files before installing a public beta.
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Developer beta 3 of watchOS 4.3 now available
Apple has posted beta 3 of watchOS 4.3 for developers. Registered developers can download it from Apple’s Developer Center — or over-the-air once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Developer Center.
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Sonnet’s 1TB Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe flash drive ships
Sonnet Technologies is shipping the new 1TB version of its Fusion Thunderbolt™ 3 PCIe Flash Drive. A pocket-size solid-state drive (SSD) storage device with a Thunderbolt 3 interface, the drive is equipped with 1TB of NVMe flash storage and leverages the 40Gbps bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3 to deliver data transfer speeds up to 2600 MB/second.
Read MoreeRetail sales to pass $3.3 trillion this year
A new study from Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) has found that the value of consumer spend on remote payments for digital and physical goods will surpass $3.3 trillion this year, up 10% on 2017’s total of $3 trillion.
The research group says alternative payment mechanisms would comprise an ever increasing proportion of online spend. PayPal already accounts for 20% of mobile and online physical goods transactions made outside China, while the success of Alipay and Weixin Pay within China means that these two players combined now account for 45% of global payment volumes.
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