Technology Infographics

With the growing number of Smartphone users, what will be the key trends for mobile in 2012? This infographic from Vocal highlights the direction mobile is taking in terms of apps and services and what consumers and businesses should look out for in 2012.

More and more of our lives are taking place online which means that quite regularly we are trusting our personal information to the cloud. Unfortunately, it seems we still have not learned how to protect ourselves. This infographic is the results of a study conducted in 2011 with 300 people ranging from high school students to adults that looks at the mistakes that are made with passwords.

Remember what the storage capacity of hard drives was in 1973, or how much a single GB of hard drive storage would have cost you in the 80′s? How about when floppy drives (remember those) were first introduced to the computing world? SPAMfighter has put together some data about hard drives and storage devices in this handy infographic timeline.

Just like the title says, this new infographic tells you everything you need to know about Facebook’s IPO. From past internet IPOs to Facebook’s possible valuation, this infographic leaves nothing out.

We’ve all thought about things comparing apples and oranges. Let’s take it one step further and compare apples and apples. Yes, you heard right. Apples (the fruit) vs Apple (the tech company) makes for a fantastic comparative infographic.

Enterprises are witnessing a transformation led by smartphones and tablet devices. Mobility is slowly becoming a critical part of IT strategy. As employees and business processes go mobile, the folks at [x]cube LABS tried to decode enterprise mobility, crunching numbers to present an informative infographic detailing out the technology used in enterprise mobility and industry verticals that are at the forefront of mobilizing its operations.

In this digital age that we live in, it’s not uncommon to see our privacy compromised. This infographic from Rasmussen College exposes the reach of the worst security breaches of all time.

Look all around you – the quantity of information in the world is soaring. Mankind created approximately 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. In 2010 they created a whopping 1,200 exabytes. Merely keeping up with this flood, and storing the bits that might be useful, is difficult enough. Analyzing it, to spot patterns and extract useful information, is harder still. It has great potential for good—as long as consumers, companies and governments make the right choices about when to restrict the flow of data, and when to encourage it.

The Consumer Electronics Show is North America’s largest annual trade show of any kind, and next week they will be celebrating their 45th anniversary. In honor of this, the online auction site YouNeverLose.com decided to create an infographic that highlights some of the more memorable products that were launched at CES, as well as a few milestones for the show itself.

Illegal piracy accounts for huge profit losses among American corporations. Yes, at times, it certainly would be easier to download a new song, a movie, or even software off the Internet. However, you might think otherwise if you were a recording artist, movie producer or software developer. Every time someone illegally downloads content, industries lose money.