El mercado español de las TIC y los contenidos digitales experimentó un incremento del 2,1% en el 2014, alcanzando, aproximadamente, una cifra de negocio de 86.000 M€, lo que supone el primer cambio de tendencia tras haber caído un 18% en el periodo 2008-2013. No obstante, las telecomunicaciones y electrónica de consumo continúan en recesión.
Los ingresos del mercado de las TIC y los contenidos digitales en España experimentaron un incremento del 2,1% en el 2014, hasta los 79.577 millones de euros, lo que supone el primer dato positivo después de seis años de caídas, con un descenso acumulado del 18%, según ha indicado el presidente de Ametic, José Manuel de Riva.
De Riva ha indicado que el pasado año supuso el primer cambio de tendencia desde 2008, si bien ha puntualizado que la industria de las telecomunicaciones y electrónica de consumo continúan en recesión.
New enterprise-grade applications are replacing old enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as companies move to become more flexible and mobile. Companies must look beyond the hype and consider these new applications in the context of an actual business case.
A new form of computer memory might help machines match the capabilities of the human brain when it comes to tasks such as interpreting images or video footage.
Researchers at IBM used what’s known as phase-change memory to build a device that processes data in a way inspired by the workings of a biological brain. Using a prototype phase-change memory chip, the researchers configured the system to act like a network of 913 neurons with 165,000 connections, or synapses, between them. The strength of those connections change as the chip processes incoming data, altering how the virtual neurons influence one another. By exploiting that property, the researchers got the system to learn to recognize handwritten numbers.
IT management start-up Neebula is the latest member of the local “triple figure club,” after California-based ServiceNow paid $100 million to acquire the Israeli firm.
The crown jewel in ServiceNow’s acquisition is Neebula’s ServiceWatch, which enables network managers to focus on specific problems with equipment, connections, and other network features, analyzing the impact of their failure on the system, and enabling them to institute backup services to prevent problems.
The information industry—which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines as processors, producers, and distributors of data, informational, and cultural products—shed more jobs in the first decade of the millennium than any other sector except manufacturing. Down more than 750,000 jobs, the industry accounts for about 2% of the U.S. market and 4.6% of America’s GDP. The losses seem surprising, given that information businesses have long been assumed to be an engine of the modern economy. The culprit, ironically enough, is tech-driven innovation, which has produced dramatic gains in efficiency and widespread automation.
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Pese a su importancia estratégica, el sector TICs vasco no es tan fuerte como lo pintan. La realidad es más bien la contraria: su aportación a la economía regional es bastante floja. Así lo indica el Informe de Competitividad 2013 de Orkestra, que pone en entredicho la falta de compromiso con este sector de los centros tecnológicos e incluso el apoyo público, que se ha dividido por cuatro en la última Agenda Digital Euskadi.
An explosion in the data-driven economy offers crisis-stricken Europe hopes of recovery, but policymakers who lack the means to measure the phenomenon face challenges in a sector bracing for new regulation.
Services linked to information and communication technologies have consistently outperformed an otherwise lacklustre economy, growing by 5% to 10% in 2012, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Internet Economy Outlook, published last October.
The explosion in supply of tablet PCs and smartphones, and the opportunities for online data storage in the cloud, have helped buoy the ICT sector even during the 2008 financial crisis. The OECD report says larger firms recorded 6% growth in annual revenue between 2000 and 2011.
