Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Windows Phone 7 Will Flounder, Gartner Predicts — Microsoft’s new mobile OS will only provide a slight, temporarily boost to the company’s meager mobile OS market share, according to research firm. — Microsoft’s introduction of Windows Phone 7, set to be formally introduced next week …
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Gartner: IT spending to grow 4.6 percent this year — IT spending around the world will rise 4.6 percent this year to reach $3.4 trillion, according to research released Thursday by Gartner. — Though modest, the growth will show much needed improvement over last year when spending actually dipped 4.6 percent from 2008.
Cloud computing isn’t going to be vapor much longer, Gartner said Tuesday.
Industry analyst Gartner Group has already stated that it believes cloud computing will be as influential as e-business. At the same time it warned that ‘in the cloud’ security services appear at the ‘peak of inflated expectations’ on Gartner’s 2009 …