App Internet and mobile devices to drive massive technology demands in 2012

The rise of the "app internet" – in which users' PCs, smartphones and tablets run the business applications – will drive completely different demands from technology next year.

That is the verdict of technology industry experts, who predicted fast-shifting pressures on technology from the rise in mobile application development, cloud computing and new security threats. According to Forrester analysts, having said that the web, as the dominant software architecture of the Internet, was dead, a new Internet is evolving – dominated by applications and now placing a strain on the technology supporting it.