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.
Microsoft Updates Xbox 360 with Kinect Voice Control, Live TV and More
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.