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Tech trends to watch out for in 2013

Our research has turned up the metros most likely to be targeted in the next wave. Read more → Inside the digital arms race: Global cyberwar Inside the digital arms race: Global cyberwar As nations spend billions of dollars stockpiling digital weapons and tension grows between them, the risk of world cyber warfare has suddenly turned offensive. Kimono Labs can turn any website into an API Kimono Labs can turn any website into an API Startup Kimono built a browser tool that turns any website into an API without any coding experience. Jack Wallen // April 25, 2014, 10:03 AM PST From underfunded to funded within a heartbleed Heartbleed has caused a number of open-source projects to gain some serious funding. Editor's Picks Showdown: Evernote vs. How companies spend their IT budgets. Top 5 healthcare IT trends to look out for in 2013.

Healthcare IT, like all of IT, has changed tremendously over the past year.

Top 5 healthcare IT trends to look out for in 2013

The Affordable Healthcare Act is now the law of the land (and will probably stay that way), which means digital record-keeping will continue to grow in importance. 2013 also marks the beginning of payment bundling, which will mean that more (and more reliable) data interchange will become increasingly necessary. Our own ZDNet columnist, David Gewirtz, is also IT advisor to the Florida Public Health Association. I asked David to look forward into the new year and identify five major trends that will truly have an impact on the healthcare providers he advises. Here are the trends he identified. 1. Electronic health record systems are finding their way into even the smallest doctors' offices and healthcare providers. The big question will be whether the EHR systems implemented (in some cases in a rush, and always on a budget) are good or not. 2.

10 bold predictions for 2014. At the beginning of each year, it’s possible to make predictions about the future of the tech sector simply by extrapolating from data in the latest Mary Meeker Internet Trends presentation.

10 bold predictions for 2014

It doesn’t require a crystal ball to realize that smartphones and tablets will replace PCs, big data will continue to grow at an exponential rate, and nations such as China will play an ever-greater role in the development of the Internet. Below is an attempt at thinking big, at imagining how a number of emerging trends may combine in unique ways to create disruptive trends in 2014. Google founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Google Glass becomes the must-have tech gadget of the year. After flirting with wearable tech in 2012 and 2013, the consumer technology market is finally ready to embrace wearable computing as a full-on trend in 2014. John Doerr, partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, might have some new competition. Smarter Planet - The IBM 5 in 5. New Technologies - Trends, Innovations and Research.

Futurizon. Gartner: 10 Critical Tech Trends For The Next Five Years. Gartner: Says Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2013. Egham, UK, September 25, 2006 View All Press Releases Population shifts, surging competition and transparency reshaping the banking industry Presenting Gartner’s banking scenario at its inaugural Financial Services Technology Summit in London today, Gartner said three trends are combining to reshape the banking industry over the next six years.

Gartner: Says Worldwide IT Spending Forecast to Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2013

Population shifts, surging competition and the growing imperative for transparency are putting banks under escalating pressure. Gartner said chief information officers (CIOs) within the banking industry have realised that the future will be different. According to 98 bank CIOs responding to Gartner’s annual Executive Programme (EXP) survey of CIOs early this year, they expect heightened focus on global competition and business restructuring during the next three years. Force 1: Demographic shifts Around the globe, people are living longer and this has a direct impact on their financial needs.

Gartner: 'Every budget is an IT budget' ORLANDO---Global technology spending will surpass the $4 trillion mark in 2016 and digitization of industries will ultimately force a rethink on what is IT overall, according to Gartner.

Gartner: 'Every budget is an IT budget'

In other words, the technology pie is going to get a lot larger, but murkier. The big theme: Cloud, mobile, social and big data will come together to create a technology boom with a bevy of challenges and disruption ahead. "Every budget is an IT budget," said Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner. "Technology is embedded in every product. " His point: More technology spending will occur outside traditional procurement methods. There will be chief digital officers in most companies.

Gartner's theme at its Symposium CIO powwow is that there's a nexus of technologies that will revamp corporate technology, vendors and employment. Some takeaways to ponder from Sondergaard's talk: Big data is the killer app of the cloud. And the effects of this disruption: