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TechNavio’s analysts forecast the SMB Cloud market in the APAC region to grow at a CAGR of 39.3 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the main factors contributing to this market growth is the reduced costs of the cloud approach. The APAC cloud market has also been witnessing increasing adoption of next-generation technologies. However, the requirement of high speed ... Read More »

Jared Newman / TIME.com Out of all the things Google announced at its I/O developer conference this week, Google Play Game Services is the one new product I started using right away. Think of it as the Google equivalent of Xbox Live. For games that support it, the service lets you earn achievements, find and host multiplayer games and compete ... Read More »

(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Apple, which has been aiming for a summer rollout of a streaming music service, has hit a negotiating snag with Sony Music over some of the features that it is building into its product. More specifically, Apple and Sony Music, the world’s second-largest music label, are still trying to hammer out details over how much Apple would ... Read More »

BATON ROUGE, LA–(Marketwired – May 17, 2013) – Powering its market leadership in cloud computing, business continuity, and battle-tested data recovery solutions, Venyu today announced the company has secured two premier honors in the “2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards,” sponsored by Network Products Guide (NPG). The industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide is the world’s premier IT honors ... Read More »

It all depends on whether or not BlackBerry users will remain loyal now that the brand’s unique selling point is gone. BlackBerry Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins displays the BlackBerry Q10 at a launch event in Manhattan in January.(Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images) It’s been a busy week for the mobile industry, with Nokia, BlackBerry, and Google all having held ... Read More »

At first glance it looks like Phil Wu is just another guy wearing glasses. But take a second look and you realize there’s something missing – lenses. Instead, projected out from the frames and in the top of Wu’s field of vision is what looks like a tiny glass rectangle. It’s Google Glass. Welcome to the world of wearable computers, ... Read More »

Guest Post by Paul Williams, a copywriter with InternetProviders.com The Google I/O 2013 conference started with a bang on May 15th. Developers, tech journalists and venture capitalists crowded the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where CEO Larry Page and VP Amit Singhal delivered masterful keynotes that set the tone for the rest of the event. Although Google I/O events are ... Read More »

The smartphone app has become popular with young people for sending messages that a few seconds later disappear. That clever disappearing act has made the Los Angeles start-up a hit with users and some prominent investors in Silicon Valley. But it turns out that photos sent over Snapchat have a longer shelf life than people think. They don’t vanish — ... Read More »

California newspapers have a legal right to publish the names of children who are subjected to abuse if a name is newsworthy, a Sacramento appellate court ruled Friday. Relying heavily on a 1998 California Supreme Court decision, a three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal said that “publication of truthful, lawfully obtained material of legitimate public concern is ... Read More »

The beat writers — the ones who follow the Caps most closely, home and road — talked to him after the main interview was over, basically saying, “Hey, if we got it wrong, we want to know; what was wrong?” Laich would not say. The sources again confirmed the story. And the great mystery continued. The exchanges left me wondering ... Read More »