August 6, 2013

Eclipse Adds More Machine-to-Machine Projects

By some estimates, machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions are one of the fastest growing areas of technology. These types of interactions are a key part of the coming “Internet of Things,” a network of smart appliances and other devices that communicate with each other independent of humans. However, M2M software development is

Forrester Predicts Continued Growth for Tablets

A new report from the market researchers forecasts continued “hyper-growth” for tablets. The company believes tablet sales will grow an average 25.6 percent over the next four years, reaching 381.23 million tablets sold by 2017. At that time, 60 percent of people online in North America will own a tablet.

Understanding Amazon AWS Compute Offerings

To run and operate any application, computing power is needed, that includes hardware and software (including operating system, platform software, and application code). Traditionally, acquiring hardware and software (operating system and platform software) resulted in upfront capital expenditure. Enter Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Amazon EC2 Amazon offers scalable computing

Gartner: SaaS Customers Beware

Market research firm Gartner is sounding the alarm about customer dissatisfaction with some cloud computing services. Specifically, enterprises are concerned about contract ambiguities related to the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident.” “We continue to see frustration among cloud services users over the