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Welcome to the 2009 edition of Predictions for the telecommunications sector. This is the eighth year in which the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global TMT Industry Group has published its predictions for the year ahead.

The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) innovations that are able fundamentally to enhance our lives are also those most likely to become the most significant contributors to the overall size of the TMT sector. The Internet and mobile telephony are two strong, recent examples of this.

The movie theater – also known as the cinema in some countries – has enjoyed strong growth in recent years. Revenues, measured by box office sales, grew year-on-year from the mid-1990s to 2006, a year in which sales totaled $25 billion.

This paper is the fourth in the ‘Digital Leadership’ series looking at the challenges faced by one of today’s fastest-moving sectors – technology, media and telecoms.

Welcome to our 12th annual survey of consumer and retail sector confidence. Since 1995, Deloitte has carried out this in-depth analysis of the spending habits and the underlying moods of both consumers and retailers ahead of the all-important Christmas period.

Ground-breaking innovation means more than a clever idea; it means an idea that will make consumers happy. Good design is profitable - if you make things that work better and appeal to more people, they will pay for it.

Welcome to the 2010 edition of Technology Predictions. This is the ninth year in which the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group has published predictions on the TMT sectors.

Welcome to the 2009 edition of Predictions for the media sector. Live entertainment has enjoyed many years of sustained revenue growth. But it has been the major acts, the biggest teams, and the blockbuster shows that appear to have enjoyed the bulk of the growth.

Communications innovations have enabled some of the most rapidly and widely adopted technologies of all time – the Internet and the mobile phone being the most notable examples. That transformative impact is likely to continue through 2010.

As predicted in last year’s Media report, social networking has continued to gain in popularity, and our suggestion that concerns about privacy and user safety would grow proved correct.

Headlines about new media’s near vertical rise abound. Analyses of the travails of old media are similarly plentiful. Yet terms of reference often differ and context is sadly lacking. This causes misunderstandings that are likely to linger throughout 2007.

During the last decade, the technology sector, both in the UK and globally, has experienced unprecedented volatility. Technology fomented a boom, the tail-end of which was an unprecedented crash that affected companies and consumers around the world. In many countries, the bruises are still showing. But now that the dust has settled, it is highly apparent that technology is more omnipotent and omnipresent than ever.

Fixed telecommunications operators often provide an essential ingredient – network infrastructure – that enables and delivers a growing range of convergent services. Yet when it comes to profiting from convergence, operators have too often found themselves on the outside, looking in.

(Part 2 of 2) During the last decade, the technology sector, both in the UK and globally, has experienced unprecedented volatility. Technology fomented a boom, the tail-end of which was an unprecedented crash that affected companies and consumers around the world. In many countries, the bruises are still showing. But now that the dust has settled, it is highly apparent that technology is more omnipotent and omnipresent than ever.

How is artificial intelligence transforming the creative industries, and what skills will designers need to thrive in an AI-driven future? Industry experts from tangerine, terrible*, The Frank Co., and Cleo explore the evolving relationship between AI, sustainability, and human-centered design in this thought-provoking discussion recorded at the London Design Festival.

The passage of the Freedom of Information Act (“the Act”) marks the fulfilment of a longstanding Labour Party commitment to freedom of information. The Act is a major part of the constitutional reform which includes the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms into the UK Law with the Human Rights Act 1998 and the devolution of powers to the Scottish and Welsh assemblies.