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Download PDF How Zoom Beat Huge, Established Videoconferencing Players By Jim Harris In December of 2019, Zoom had 10 million daily users. From April to June 2020, the app was downloaded 300 million times – 200 million times from Google Play and 94 million times on Apple’s App Store, shattering records for the most downloaded […]

Download PDF By Jim Harris The Augmented Reality market has evolved. By 2025, the AR global market will be $300 billion with 1.2 billion users. I attended Huawei’s Better World Summit for 5G + AR online on Jun 17, 2021. The company introduced the Huawei AR Engine, a development platform for mobile devices, and released […]

Download PDF Cheaper batteries, COVID-19 and autonomous tech are all driving the death of legacy car companies At Tesla’s Battery Day in September, CEO Elon Musk announced a number of innovations that should, if all goes according to plan, drive down battery prices by 56% by the end of 2023. That’s when Musk plans to […]

Download PDF Medicalization of the Smartphone Driving Adoption By Jim Harris The COVID crisis is turbo charging the adoption of telemedicine and transforming health care. During the COVID-19 outbreak in China a staggering 50% of all medical visits were remote. Who really wants to go sit in a hospital or doctor’s office with people who […]

Download PDF Plug and Play Options for Zooming Like a Pro By Jim Harris In December 2019, Zoom had 10 million daily users. In the second quarter (April, May and June) of 2020, Zoom’s app was downloaded 300 million times: 94 million from Apple’s App Store (shattering the previous record of 50 million downloads for […]

Download PDF The COVID Crisis Accelerating Mobile Dominance By Jim Harris MOBILE FIRST FIRMS have a 825% higher value upon IPO than companies with no mobile focus, highlighting how essential mobile is for success. This is a staggering finding from the 2020 Mobile Report by App Annie. Here are a few reasons: Scaling Mobile first […]

Download PDF Electrification, Autonomous Vehicles and the Internet of Things revolutionize the school bus market By Jim Harris The price of Lithium-ion batteries has plummeted by 89 percent from 2010 to 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), and the trend will continue: Source: BNEF The largest cost of electric vehicles (EVs) historically has […]

Download PDF Firms Focused On Digital Transformation, Mobile First & AI Centric Strategies Experiencing Explosive Growth By Jim Harris The Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the global economy. COVID-19 is hyper-charging the growth of companies that have aggressively pursued digital transformation, by putting mobile first philosophy at the core of their business strategy and embedding […]

Download PDF The hottest topic at CES, in my opinion, was artificial intelligence (AI). AI chips will add intelligence into billions of smart devices in the coming years. These devices will be at the edge — meaning that they’ll work without having to be connected to the cloud or a data center. Syntiant won a […]

Gas Cars are Dead: Here’s Why Traditional car companies are zombies. They’re dead but they just don’t know it yet. By 2022, Electric Vehicles (EVs) will become cheaper to buy than gas cars. EVs are already cheaper on operating cost and maintenance cost. The electricity to power EVs costs 80% less than the gas to […]

Download PDF Wealth, Values, and Society Have Transformed Wealth. Millennials have a far different view of it than their boomer parents. While young adults generally do not have much accumulated wealth, millennials have about half of what their boomer parents did at this point in their lives. The median net worth of millennial households is […]

Download PDF Television has gone through a few fundamental changes, such as the evolution from black-and-white to color in the 1960s, and the transition from analog to digital in 2009. The shift to NEXT GEN TV will change how we watch TV. NEXT GEN TV is the industry name for ATSC 3.0, the world’s first […]

Live Reporting on Innovation from the Consumer Electronics Show TORONTO, Jan. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — International bestselling author and social media influencer Jim Harris will be covering CES live from Las Vegas, during the Media Days on January 5 and 6, and throughout the show January 7-10. CES is the world’s largest electronics show, with […]

Download PDF Smart homes are expected to grow to a $4.5 billion market in 2019 in the U.S., according to CTA. That a 16% growth rate over 2018 making it a very hot market. The Intelligence of Things The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is shifting to the “Intelligence of Things” – as artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Download PDF Sales of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs grew 60% in 2018 in the U.S. and are set to roughly do so again in 2019. “OLED to many consumers is still a very new technology,” says John Taylor, senior vice president at LG Electronics USA. OLED technology was originally invented by Kodak scientists […]

Download PDF What makes someone a disruptor? Disruptive innovation is a hot topic these days. What exactly is it? Why is it happening? What’s driving this phenomenon so relentlessly? How is it that some people, and initiatives disrupt entire industries while other efforts fall flat? We are living in times of exponential change. Most people […]

Download PDF EVs set to upset traditional car companies in 2020 Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) predicts that by 2025, electric vehicles (EVs) will be cheaper than gas powered autos (known as internal combustion engines). The blue line in the chart below represents the average price of gas-powered cars which is predicted to slowly increase […]

Live Reporting From Mobile World Congress, Feb 25-28 in Barcelona, Spain TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — International bestselling author and social media influencer Jim Harris will be covering Mobile World Congress (MWC) live from Monday, February 25 to Thursday, February 28, 2019, in Barcelona Spain. International bestselling author and social media influencer Jim Harris […]

Download PDF Google recently unveiled Duplex, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant at its developer conference. As your personal assistant, Duplex can call to book a hair appointment or make a restaurant reservation. The people on the other end of the phone won’t even realize that they’re talking to an AI. Duplex uses AI, machine learning, […]

Download PDF Strategies for thriving in our fast paced business world We’re experiencing more change than ever before, and the rate of those changes are accelerating exponentially. While it took the aviation industry 68 years to reach 50 million customers, it took Pokémon Go just 19 days. It used to be large organizations that dominated […]

Download PDF More data has been created in the last two years than in all of human history combined. Companies are awash in data, but how can you derive strategic advantage from it? That’s where artificial intelligence (AI) comes in. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Uber are data-driven companies. AI is central to their business models, […]

Download PDF Television is the most pervasive consumer technology with 96.5 percent of U.S homes owning a TV. And some TVs are morphing into massive sets that can bend and stretch bringing a new dynamic way to view content. At CES 2018 companies made many exciting announcements about how TVs are evolving. LG unveiled the […]

Download PDF A STAGGERING 94% OF CAR ACCIDENTS ARE DUE TO DRIVER ERROR. So think about the 40,000 lives that will be saved in North America every year in 2025 when all new cars are autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. Think of the 2.5 million people who won’t be maimed or seriously injured annually. Think of the […]

Download PDF For the first time, global digital spending will exceed $1 trillion in 2018. And surprisingly, just three product categories make up 75 percent of this global expenditure: smartphones (48 percent); TVs (12 percent); and mobile PCs/tablets (15 percent). The only category consistently growing in market share is smartphones. From 2011 to 2018, TV’s […]

Download PDF Our relationship to computers is profoundly shifting. Like Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, within a few short years most of us will primarily interact with technologies — smartphones, computers, smart home devices and our cars — by speaking to them. We are leaving the era of the GUI (graphical user interface) and entering […]

Download PDF How AI is disrupting the insurance market Lemonade is disrupting traditional insurers in an industry that takes weeks, or even months, to settle most property and casualty insurance claims. A New York-based insurer, Lemonade set the world record in December 2016 for settling a claim in just three seconds by using its claims […]