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Augmented and virtual reality poised to impact insurance industry: Novarica

August 29, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Augmented and virtual reality each boast considerable potential for impact within the insurance industry, with implications spanning risk mitigation, improved efficiency and loss ratios and enhanced customer service, Novarica said in a new executive brief. While their effect will be

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“Industry-specific disruptive technologies” to contribute to increase in worldwide IT spending: Gartner

July 13, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.5 trillion, a 2.4% increase from last year, driven in part by “industry-specific disruptive technologies,” Gartner Inc. reported on Thursday. “Digital business is having a profound effect on the way business is done

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8.4 billion “connected things” will be in use in 2017, up 31% from 2016: Gartner

February 14, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

IT research and advisory company Gartner, Inc. is forecasting that 8.4 billion “connected things” will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31% from 2016, and reaching 20.4 billion by 2020. The company added in a press release last week

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50% of citizens in large cities will share personal data with smart city programs by 2019: Gartner

December 16, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Half of citizens in million-people cities will benefit from smart city programs by voluntarily sharing their personal data by 2019, according to new research from Gartner Inc., an information technology research and advisory company based in Stamford, Conn. Gartner noted

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Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack affecting one billion users

December 15, 2016 Michael Liedtke - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed Wednesday

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Incumbent insurers need to understand the “ABCs of insurtech,” Novarica says

December 1, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Incumbent insurers need to understand the “ABCs” of insurtech – Analytics Arms Dealers, Beneficial Bots, Creative Carriers and Digital Distributors – to get a better grasp of the space, according to a new executive brief from Boston-based research and advisory