6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (396+ words) The transition to 802.11be accelerates, driven by strong demand for AI-capable infrastructure, AI-powered security and automation and ongoing campus refresh. The worldwide WLAN market reached $3.2B in the second quarter of 2026 (2Q26), growing 23.2% year over year (YoY). That’s an acceleration from the 15.6% growth…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (331+ words) Audio Intelligence features on the watches, designed to help you hear what you missed (Live Rewind), capture sounds (Sound Recognition) or capture notes (Siri Recap), find Apple attempting to walk a fine line between always-listening ambient AI computing and its…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (264+ words) AI cost is the fastest-growing, least-governed line in most enterprise budgets — and only one in five CEOs have given it a budget line of its own. This piece walks CFOs through why token-based AI cost behaves nothing like software licensing,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (281+ words) IDC created a framework to attack this exact issue. In Effective Agent Cost Management: A Practitioner’s Framework for Planning, Sourcing, Implementation, and Operations, we offer a short list of fixes that will matter more than any anticipated model price cuts:…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (302+ words) Memory shortage will also cause smartphone ASP to increase 27.6% this year to $581. Foldables remain the only silver lining, forecast to grow 12.6% YoY, boosted by Apple's entry into the segment in the second half of this year. The smartphone market has…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (519+ words) Most AI vendor security reviews stop at one vendor: the one you're buying from. The cloud, identity, and monitoring providers that the vendor depends on rarely get asked for the same proof. Ask an AI vendor to prove its own…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (154+ words) More than 400 CIOs and technology leaders gathered in Sapanca for the 17th IDC CIO Summit Türkiye, and the message was clear: the agent economy isn't coming, it's already here. IDC's Eren Eser breaks down the seven shifts now defining how Turkish…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (619+ words) Ask any AI vendor if your data is safe, and the answer is always yes. The review that follows rarely proves it. Here are the five questions that actually separate architecture from attestation, including how IDC Quanta answers each one....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (876+ words) Many digital twin programs stall not because of model quality alone, but because organizations attempt to move into orchestration before simulation has earned operational trust. Digital twins are moving from visualization tools toward the operational backbone of Physical AI on…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (488+ words) Organizations can no longer assume governance ends once an AI use case has been approved. Instead, governance must continue throughout the entire AI life cycle:design and deployment to runtime monitoring and incident response. Earlier this year, I published IDC…...