The analytical company Gartner has updated its forecast on global expenses on information technologies this year and has stated that they will probably increase by 7.1% up to 3.7 bln dollars. The growing expenses on the migration into the cloud computing as well as the integration of new IT services and software development is likely to become the main driven force.
Earlier Gartner forecasted the growth of expenses by 5.6% up to 3.4 bln dollars. According to Richard Gordon, Vice-President on R&D of the company, the growth of expenses will be observed in 2012 as well.
The expenses on cloud services will reach 89 bln dollars. However, cloud services are expected to present the sphere that will attract many other trends as well. By the year 2015, Gartner is expecting the expenses on cloud services will reach 177 bln dollars.
The expenses on telecommunication solutions will grow up to 2.1 bln dollars, which means the increase by 6.9% in comparison with the previous year. Thus, we are likely to expect that mobile software programming will develop as well and we’ll see many new cutting edge solutions in the nearest future.
market in the first quarter of 2011. The developers haven’t specified how much the device will cost. According to the specialists, the price of Xoom shouldn’t exceed 500 dollars in order to be competitive with other similar devices – for example, with iPad from Apple.
According to the AndroLib site, the users of the online apps store Android Market have downloaded from the store various applications more than a billion times. The counter situated on the site shows that every single moment about one hundred applications are downloaded from the catalogue.
The QR code is a popular two dimensional barcode which has already stepped over the trade market boarders and has become actively used in everyday life. Mobile phones equipped with cameras capable of scanning and decoding a 2D barcode as successfully as specialized scanners. The popularity of such mobile phones began in Japan and then spread to other continents and countries and together with this popularity the fashion for QR-code has spread as well.
There is one more example. The barcode can be used for meeting the opposite sex. You need to place the QR code with your personal information somewhere on the foreground. And then the interested person can focus his mobile phone on your barcode and get all the necessary information for further relationships.
The AT&T company has found a gap in the iPad security system. The owners of the latest Apple’s gadget have sent the corresponding notification about the leakage of e-mail addresses. The group of hackers announced that it was able to crack users’ devices connected via the authorized wireless access. AT&T claims that the given vulnerability has already been eliminated.
Oliver Block, one of Windows CE developers, wrote in his diary that participants of the last conference devoted to integrated systems in San Jose asked him the same questions. They were interested if CE was killed by its developers going forward to the ARM-platform, or if developers were using Visual Studio and whether all Windows Embedded products were based on different SKU.