According to a recent IDC survey of the intentions of CIOs in Australia, 20.6% of respondents were using a cloud solution. The same survey says that by 2015 the use of cloud services by Australian companies – from SMBs to enterprise-size organisations – is set to quadruple – so what does this mean for service providers and users?

Despite a particularly poor performance, HP remained the leading PC vendor in Australia and New Zealand during 3Q11. Meanwhile, Apple surged into second place according to IDC's latest figures.

Despite a particularly poor performance, HP remained the leading PC vendor in Australia and New Zealand during 3Q11. Meanwhile, Apple surged into second place according to IDC's latest figures.

Google has revamped the Android Market client (what you see on your phone) billing it as "a complete redesign…to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing products."

Telecoms service providers throughout the world harvested a fortune in 2010, growing their revenues by 4% in 2010 to reach a massive US$1.85 trillion, according to new figures. Much of the growth was driven by mobile carriers in the new global engine economies, such as Brazil, Russia, India and China.

An Android Trojan dubbed Walkinwat sends an SMS to all contacts stored on the phone, and sends personal data to a remote server.

Global IT spending has surged to record heights in 2010 after pent-up demand caused by the GFC and subsequent recession in 2009, according to newly released data. Figures from research group IDC reveal that the global IT market grew by 8% year over year to more than $1.5 trillion, while the overall ICT market including telecoms services grew by 6% to almost $3 trillion in 2010.

Market analysts IDC says that Apple's iPhone is now outselling Nokia to take the lead in the smartphone market. Australian smartphone shipments have risen 67% year-on-year in Q3 2010 with over 60% of new mobiles now being smartphones, according to the results of their Q3 mobile device tracker.

Learning Apple’s app store lessons and applying them to any online market, store, place or shop of its own for all of its handsets would seem to be the happening thing to do, because after all, no-one wants to see HTC hapless, but instead, in apptopia.

In an apt demonstration of the manner in which market expectations and forecasts can affect publicly traded companies, Adobe's stock has taken a big hit even though the company returned good results for the third quarter.