Database Category: Technology Infrastructure

New technologies have revolutionized nearly every aspect of human existence, including the ways that firms market products and services to consumers. Along with now familiar innovations like the Internet, greater computing capacity, mobile devices and applications, and social media, more radical innovations are emerging.

Technology emergence has become a hot topic in R&D policy and management communities. Various methods of measuring technology emergence have been developed.

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first recognised in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China, and rapidly spread to other domestic areas in China and internationally. Similar to other severe infectious disease outbreaks including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Ebola and even influenza, the COVID-19 could lead to high morbidity and mortality.

This paper introduces a conceptual framework for understanding new and futuristic in-store technology infusions. First, we develop a 2 × 2 typology of different innovative and futuristic technologies focusing on their level of convenience and social presence for the consumer.

The year 2020 should have been the start of an exciting decade in medicine and science, with the development and maturation of several digital technologies that can be applied to tackle major clinical problems and diseases.

The buggy system was revealed a day after Gov. Gavin Newsom reported a welcome drop in the state’s positivity rate. An undercount hampers counties’ ability to investigate cases.

On Thursday, AT&T announced its low-band 5G network is now available to 205 million Americans. That’s a key milestone for the carrier, because the Federal Communication Commission qualifies a “nationwide” network as one that’s available to 200 million consumers.

Google has announced plans to build a new undersea network cable connecting the US, UK and Spain.

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