
Breaches in Technology Security Seen as a Rising Threat; Patent Portfolio Risks Escalate

High-tech companies are struggling to transform their traditional business models of shipping hardware products or packaged software to more complex business models of providing new services based on cloud computing, new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) research has found.

Mobile sophistication and the need to provide a scalable platform for growth and innovation will drive demand for cloud solutions among APAC SMBs, say AMI

High Expectations for M2M Technology but Highlights Worrying Vulnerabilities That Can Already Be Exploited Today

Compiled by Gartner analysts, the Magic Quadrant examined 19 vendors of IT services for business communications systems worldwide, employing two main evaluation criteria. These include ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision’.

Apple has announced that users have downloaded more than 100 million applications from its Mac App Store in less than a year after being launched. Officially launched in January 2011, the Mac App Store was designed to reflect the App Store experience, enabling users to easily discover new applications, make purchases using their iTunes account, and download and install apps in one click.

For the past few months Hewlett and Packard has been rather silent about their plans concerning the future of their webOS which ran on several HP’s smartphones and TouchPad tablet. Just two months after the launch, the company decided to shut down the TouchPad product line and count their losses, but it remained unclear what will happen with the webOS.
Leading Infrastructure Companies Show Support for Big Switch Networks
Interoperability Testing with Big Switch’s Floodlight Open Source SDN Controller Enables Customers to Control the Network in New Ways; Interoperability Testing with Arista, Brocade, Dell, Extreme, HP and Juniper Networks