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As we gear up to the much-anticipated release of the Apple Watch, one wonders how the enterprise could potentially integrate it. Smartwatches in general have been called everything from a solution looking for a rich nerd to already dead (pending improvements). Nonetheless, every major tech company, from Apple to Sony to Huawei, is pushing its own watch. Even Swatch is jumping into the fray. With change a constant in the technology, media and entertainment (TME) sector, it should come as no surprise that this past week alone saw important developments in multiple, related fronts including consumer electronics, live sports programming, OTT and live streaming of pro sports contests. A recent study from Cognizant, a provider of information technology and business process outsourcing services, concludes that software "robots" are having a positive impact on the operations of businesses across the globe. Google Fiber is gearing up to expand to one more metro area-Salt Lake City. The Utah capital will join the Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham metro areas in the next phase of building out Google's fiber network. And the signs point to the initiative moving beyond novelty status into the realm of, possibly, being a profitable threat to incumbents. Much has been made of the cord-cutting phenomenon, brought on by an increasing adoption of over-the-top (OTT) video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant. But worldwide, the pay-TV market still generated $257 billion in 2014, reaching 923.5 million subscribers. With March Madness in full swing, and millions of viewers turning to online streaming to watch the games, YouTube's newest announcement could not have come at a better time. According to TheDailyDot, the Google-owned worldwide video sharing service has decided it will relaunch its live streaming platform, and will place emphasis on live gaming and eSports. Lenovo just announced they would be bringing out a Windows 10 phone in China in support of the launch this summer. What makes this fascinating is that Lenovo built the only Windows phone that I thought could have given the iPhone a run for the money, but they never moved it out of China-and this was about the time they'd decided to sell their phone division off. Tesla is issuing a pair of software releases to improve its vehicles, including new range improvements and the ability to autopilot. Sir Richard Branson, mid-way through his quest to build a space launch business, now says he's looking at building cars. Meanwhile, automobile manufacturers are outlining their plans for self-driving cars and rumor has it that Apple is getting into the field. The next Internet of Things is the Internet of Cars (IoC). The distributed nature of work is an immutable trend. It is only picking up steam thanks to mobility, the cloud and multinational enterprises practicing the advice taught in MBA programs around the world to "think globally but act locally." A defect from another decade codified in a little known Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") rule is causing a whole lot of headache for the systems integration industry. Regulations intended to protect systems integrators from the heavy hand of government regulation are now causing the very same systems integrators to think twice before migrating from reselling traditional telecommunications to provisioning Voice over Internet Protocol services to their enterprise customers. This hesitation, in turn, erects an unnecessary and potentially costly hurdle that systems integrators must overcome in order to fulfill the ever-increasing demands for technologically advanced communications services.
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