Cloud offers greater ease of deployment yes. But it also offers a more controllable and flexible means of buying exactly the right amount of software services at any one point in time -- and this "amount of cloud" can be reduced (or increased) and so tweaked to the exact needs of the business.

"I'm always looking for new toys and gadgets, so a few years ago I was trawling through the app store and there was heaps of stuff related to running but nothing really for swimmers. So I decided to build one - that's where Splashpath came from."

A good many voices on its release asserted that the iPad would prove the saviour of publishing, yet new research shows that, generally, magazine publishing has not capitalised on the opportunities that the modern 'cross-platform' reader presents.

A new app designed to track a person's mood throughout the day could turn your smartphone into a pocket therapist, researchers claim. The free app ...

It turns out that SnapChat is like Instagram for your genitals. I began asking people if they used SnapChat and, if they did, what kind of pictures they received. Almost everyone I asked was extremely matter-of-fact with their answer. "Willys," they'd say.

A new app has launched in Iceland to prevent relatives accidentally committing incest. The population of Iceland is so small - just 320,000 people ...

So-called "free" web and app-based games for children are under investigation following concerns that users can run up substantial costs. The Offic...

With the Internet as the backbone of delivery, innovative cloud-based services have revolutionised the lives of billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses. This is no small feat for a technology infrastructure that was in its infancy 20 years ago and an area of innovation that was all but declared dead after the "Internet bubble" burst ...

The phrase 'there's an app for everything' is used a lot these days but it is slowly becoming reality. This type of technology has come on in leaps and bounds since the development of smartphones and we are reaching a point where there almost is an app for anything you would want to do.

A teenager has sold an app he designed to Yahoo in a deal believed to be worth tens of millions of pounds. Nick D'Aloisio created the tool at his h...

Google has unveiled a new note-taking service. Google Keep is the search giant's answer to services like Evernote, and lets you save pictures, smal...

It's very much in its infancy, but the ability to create a sophisticated ICT solution without compromise, eliminating painful and slow IT projects and instead being able to react with fast IT solutions may yet convince your CEO to let you carrying on playing Angry Birds. After all,l if you're smart it's simply ALT TAB and no one will everknow.

Mobile apps first hit the headlines six years ago when Apple launched the first iPhone and the accompanying App Store. Consumers were immediately draw...

A man who was left paralysed and brain damaged in a brutal attack today said it was "great" to be able to communicate for the first time in 20 years. ...

In this world of ever-growing choice around mobile devices and operating systems, there is an increasing desire for companies to stitch together a patchwork quilt of options to deliver a seamless, consistent and universal web experience for consumers.

The Mums and Dads, kids and Grandparents browsing the App Store from their iPad don't care about the difference between 'closed' and 'open' methods of delivering apps - they just want a system that works, and that's what Apple is delivering right now.

The holy grail of user-experience is to design something that is inherently unobtrusive, without needing a learning period, but very few new pieces of technology achieve that.

Nowhere do the hopes and fears associated with consumerisation of IT come into clearer focus than in the app store. Apps make the world go 'round. "There's an app for that" has become the motto for every aspect of waking and sleeping life. And enterprise apps run our businesses.