The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year’s $900 million …
5 things you need to know about smart cities
1. It’s not all cool technology. Though the definition of the term “smart city” is still fuzzy, it suggests using advances …
Gartner: Microsoft’s ‘big gamble’ with Windows 8 won’t pay off
Gartner analysts have dubbed Microsoft’s Windows 8 as a “big gamble” that will see the operating system peak at just …
Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market
The cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business …
Worldwide bank IT spending to continue growing through 2015
Worldwide bank IT spending is forecast to grow, with a 5.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to a recently …
IT spending is top board-level priority: Gartner survey
Corporate boards are prioritising IT spending as highly as investments in sales operations, according to research announced Monday by analyst …
Big data hype leads to business analytics growth: IDC
The global market for business analytics software grew roughly 14 percent in 2011, fueled by pervasive hype about “big data” …
Facebook will 'disappear' in 5 to 8 years: analyst
Facebook will become something of a has-been within five to eight years, according to one analyst. And while that assertion …
Tablets will be more popular than PCs by 2020
Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Munster and Douglas J. Clinton think that in the long run any cannibalising of Mac sales …
Gartner predicts huge rise in monitoring of employees' social media use
Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to monitor employee Internet use, with 60 percent expected to watch workers’ social …