Tag: predicts

Strategy

Gartner predicts the top ten technologies for 2009

By Brett Winterford | Feb 7, 2009 | Comment Now

Virtualisation, telepresence, netbooks and sensor networks are the hot technologies this year, according to Gartner’s annual Top 10 technology predictions released yesterday.

Strategy

Gartner predicts no rise in IT spending this year

By Ian Williams | Jan 15, 2009 | Comment Now

IT budgets are expected to remain largely flat in 2009 with an average increase of just 0.16 per cent globally, according to analyst Gartner.

Security

Websense predicts the future of web security

Dec 10, 2008 | Comment Now

The cloud will become dangerous, good sites will be used to hide bad data, and rich internet applications will turn on their users. These are some of the predictions from ...

Hardware

Intel predicts AI within forty years

By Iain Thomson | Aug 22, 2008 | Comment Now

Intel’s chief technology officer has predicted that humans will create computers smarter than themselves within the next forty years.

Software

Gartner predicts rise in services spending

By Gareth Morgan | Jul 25, 2008 | Comment Now

Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that spending on IT services will rise by 9.5 per cent in 2008, but it warned that business leaders are increasingly seeing outsourcing ...

Networking

Analyst predicts bright future for Bluetooth

By Robert Jaques | Jun 5, 2008 | Comment Now

Almost 2.4 billion units of Bluetooth-enabled equipment will ship worldwide in 2013, new research predicts..

Strategy

Gartner predicts globalisation of IT by 2015

By Phil Muncaster | May 16, 2008 | Comment Now

Chief information officers must be prepared to source their IT from offshore global locations or suffer competitive disadvantage, as emerging markets ramp up their technology ...

Hardware

Intel predicts bright future for laptops

By Clement James | Dec 18, 2007 | Comment Now

Sales of laptop PCs will outpace desktops by 2009, according to Intel chief executive Paul Otellini..

Storage

Expert predicts Google will offer 50GB of free web storage

By Robert Jaques | Dec 12, 2007 | Comment Now

Google's rumoured plan to offer a virtual Hard Disk Drive (HDD) service could make the search giant higher margins than those enjoyed by suppliers of physical hard disks such ...

Strategy

Futurologist predicts life in 2030

Nov 27, 2007 | Comment Now

Neurological interfaces to a super-intelligent internet are among the predictions of what life will be like in 2030..