How are small and mid-market organizations responding to trends like cloud computing, mobile deployments and increasingly complex IT requirements?
Citrix announced Wednesday the availability of GoToMyPC for Android tablets. GoToMyPC is the company’s highly popular remote desktop app available for iPhone, iPad and now also Android tablets, which enables mobile workers to access their files, programs and email from anywhere at any time and stay productive while on the go.
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.
Microsoft will roll out a major free upgrade to Xbox 360 on Tuesday, December 6, with the promise of transforming the gaming console into a device that encompasses all of the users’ entertainment. The update features a new interface and a host of new features and digital entertainment content. The design of a new user interface mirrors Metro interface which is arriving on Windows 8 in late 2012.
Spending on mobile computing, cloud services, social networking, and big data analytics technologies is growing at about 18% per year and, according to IDC, it is expected to account for at least 80% of IT spending growth by 2020. IDC predicts that 2012 will see some of the first high-stakes battles as IT vendors strive to achieve dominance in these highly important and rapidly growing technology areas.
Depending on their position — and their recent results — investors interested in technology companies are alternately celebrating or cursing the recent stock market volatility. Stocks’ volatility over the past few months may seem to have reached historic levels, but a recent economic analysis concludes that markets have, if anything, experienced lower than average volatility [...]
Amazon.com subsidiary A9.com launched a new iPhone app that uses barcode and image recognition to recognize tens of millions of products in a live camera view, enabling users to get real-time information about the products they are considering to purchase.
Dimension Data Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing
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’.