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Smart Cities: The Race to Make Cities More Efficient

By Dick Weisinger

What do the following cities have in common:  Stockholm, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Malaga, Barcelona, ​​Santander, Madrid, Burgos, Buenos Aires, or Gijon?  All of these cities have begun implementing ‘smart city‘ technology. Eedo Lifshitz, international business development and marketing executive, said…

Federal IT: Seeking Innovation from the Software-Defined Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Federal IT is severely constrained by their existing IT environment, making it difficult to innovate.  $62 billion — 79 percent — of Federal IT budgets is spent updating and maintaining legacy IT systems.  A report by MeriTalk concludes that this…

Tablet Computing: A Market Undergoing HyperGrowth

By Dick Weisinger

Since the first release of the iPad in April 2010, the tablet market has exploded with what Forrester Research calls “hyper-growth”. Forrester predicts that between 2012 and 2017 that tablets will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 25.6…

3D Printing: Disruptive Technology on the Launchpad

By Dick Weisinger

3D printers ‘print’ objects in three-dimensions by melting melting a materials like plastic and then depositing them layer-by-layer, ultimately creating a three dimensional object.  Plastic is commonly used, but other materials like metal, polymer powders, or chocolate can also be…

Outsourcing: Gartner Lowers Growth Forecast for the Year

By Dick Weisinger

IT spending on outsourcing is being pinched and Gartner has lowered their forecast for growth in IT outsourcing to just 2.88 percent for 2013, bringing the total spend on outsourcing in 2013 to $288 billion. Bryan Britz, Gartner Research Vice…