Search the Internet for QR codes and authentication or counterfeiting keywords and you will get plenty of results, whether links to solution providers selling anti-counterfeiting solutions based on QR codes or announcements from brands having adopted QR codes to protect their products. Actually, “protecting their...
Gartner Inc. predicts that there’ll be more than 25 billion connected devices in the world by 2020, generating revenues of more than $300 billion for those who catch the wave. But even with this massive amount of growth being forecast, most enterprises fail to understand...
E-commerce sales to surpass $2 trillion next year On August 11th, 1994, a man sat down at his computer and purchased Sting’s Ten Summoners’ Tales compact disk with his credit card. It was the first secure retail transaction on the Internet[i]. 18 years later, ecommerce sales were...
China, significant drop in luxury sales growth The overall growth of the global market for personal luxury goods is expected to be4-6 percent this year[i] compared to a 6.5 percent growth in 2013[ii]. Regionally, figures range from a projected 2014 decline up to 6 percent in...
Imagine a world where objects, animals or people have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction[i].Guess what? This scenario is already happening and it is called Internet of Things (IoT)...
Since the first computer was created, the pace of digitalization has only increased. In 1995, less than 1% of the world population had an Internet connection. Today, it is around 40%[1]. The number of Internet users has increased tenfold from 1999 to 2013. This phenomenon has...
Special focus on counterfeiting in the USA for the National Day of the United States. Discover 5 key facts and figures about counterfeiting in the USA....
Discover the key points of the study highlighting the growing issue of counterfeiting in the area of wines and spirits and the different technologies to prevent it. The whole study is available for free download in the press section. ...
The World Anti-Counterfeiting Day has been created in 1998 by the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (GACG) and is held every June to raise awareness of the damages caused by counterfeiting and piracy. When you hear about counterfeiting, you may not directly think about wines and spirits. However,...
