Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
One of the remarkable things about today’s smartphones and tablets is the extent to which they disintermediate and disintegrate longstanding tools and industries. We used to rely on a spate of separate devices: a camera, digital audio recorder, landline phone, video camera, DVD player, MP3 player and various remote controls. All are gone or rapidly…
by Brian Duckering of Symantec Throughout the modern history of business, there have been countless technological innovations that have improved the way companies work. However, a few stand out from the rest in their capacity to disrupt the status quo. Perhaps the most obvious recent examples of such technological advances are the PC and the…
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.1 percent increase from 2010, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. In 2010, worldwide IT spending totaled $3.4 trillion, up 5.4 percent from 2009 levels. Gartner has raised its outlook for 2011 global IT spending from its previous forecast of 3.5 percent…
iPhones and Droids may appear to be the alpha and omega of the smartphone revolution, but the upheaval is far from over. And no, the upcoming charge of change doesn’t have anything to do with Windows Phone 7 or any other late-to-the-fight contender. But Apple and Google can’t just sit back and claim to be…
It’s prediction time again. Looking back on last year’s prediction column, the hits narrowly beat out the misses but they did beat the misses so we’re going to expand on last year’s efforts with five more predictions for 2010 (besides, as writers, we like the way the numbers line up in the headline!). A Look…