Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away.

Tablets will become most users' main computing devices within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has predicted.

Tablets will become most users' primary computing device within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett believes.

Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest: Google Drive will launch next week.

Despite a rocky historical relationship with the open-source community, Microsoft's recent decision to create a specialised Open Technologies spinoff is the latest phase of its recent rapprochement with the open world - as well as a canny defensive measure.

Overall U.S. tech spending is forecast to grow by 7.1% this year and then by 7.4% in 2012, according to Forrester Research.

More independent business owners use tablets than either laptops or desktops according to a recent poll that measured the computing tastes of over 1100 respondents. Furthermore, 55 per cent of business owners expect to use a "tablet or other device" in the future.

Dell's announcement on Monday that it had finalized an agreement to acquire thin client maker Wyse allows the company to fill a portfolio gap that had been exploited by competitors such as HP, according to industry experts.

It's time for IT to face facts: The great corporate barrier against employees using personal smartphones has been breached.

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