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Mobile Technology: An Engine of Economic Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Mobile technology is a major engine for economic growth.  A recent study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that mobile technologies accounted for $3.3 trillion in revenues and is responsible for 11 million jobs. David Michael, senior partner of BCG,…

Javascript Evolves: Tech Heavyweights Battle Over Statically Typed Javascript

By Dick Weisinger

Javascript was ranked as the programming language of 2014 based on the frequency of searches made on public search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Wikipedia.  While Javascript has long had detractors, the fact that it’s the standard language of…

Mobile Bandwidth: Mobile Data Traffic Expected to Increase by Factor of Ten by 2020

By Dick Weisinger

The growth in the number of smartphones, wearable technologies and machine-to-machine communications is fueling huge growth in the internet bandwidth.  Cisco estimates that 88 percent of the internet traffic last year can be attributed to this kind of “smart” bandwidth.…

Shadow IT and the Cloud: European Shadow IT Adopt US Cloud Services

By Dick Weisinger

It’s widely believed that US companies are having a hard time making inroads in selling cloud-based products in Europe because of a variety of regulations and privacy laws.  But that hasn’t stopped many European businesses from using US cloud services.…

Big Data: Moving Beyond the Setbacks of Early Implementation Failures

By Dick Weisinger

Big data projects are on the rise, but unfortunately many big data projects to date haven’t been successful.  A survey by CapGemini‘s found that only 13 percent of organizations have been able to build big data into a project that’s gone…