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HTML5 on Mobile: Technology on the Rebound, but Still Out-Classed by Native Development

By Dick Weisinger

“New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices,” wrote Steve Jobs in April 2010.  But the road to HTML5 acceptance hasn’t been an easy one. A low point in attitude toward HTML5 came in…

Supply Chain: Manufacturers Begin Reversing Supply-Chain Strategies from Off-Shore to Near-Shore

By Dick Weisinger

Near-shoring is a logistics strategy of keeping product manufacturing operations close to or within the country where the product will be sold.  It represents a reversal of thinking after years of shifting manufacturing and assembly operations into countries with low…

Platform as a Service (PaaS): One way to Cut Infrastructure Costs and Speed Application Development

By Dick Weisinger

The public platform-as a service (PaaS) market is expected to double in the next four years, according to research by IDC. PaaS cloud-based provider services include a base computing stack of components, that include the hardware, operating systems, storage, and…

IT Spending: IT Spending Forecast to be Slightly Stronger in 2014

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending is expected to increase in 2014, reaching $2.14 trillion, a 5 percent increase over the IT spending levels of 2013.  Spending growth in 2013 is expected to come it at about 4 percent, following a slightly stronger…

Achieving IT Innovation: Freeing Up Resources By Automating Existing Processes

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are increasingly faced with the challenge of being able to keep up with managing ever more data and information. Forrester’s Rachel Dines, senior analyst, said that there are five areas of concerns that IT groups are grappling with: Need…