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iPhone 6 Plus: $100 costlier to buy, just $15.50 more to make

Apple (AAPL) stands to profit in a big way from users who step up to its bigger-screen iPhone 6 Plus. A teardown analysis of the new 5.5-inch smartphone reveals that it costs just $15.50 more to make than the 4.7-inch iPhone 6. But Apple charges consumers $100 more to get the bigger handset. That translates to more profit for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. Like Apple’s marketing slogan for the iPhone 6 family says, “Bigger is bigger.” IHS Technology (IHS) reported late Tuesday that the bill of materials for the iPhone 6 with 16 gigabytes of NAND flash memory amounts to $196.10, according to a preliminary estimate by its mobile handset teardown service. When the $4 manufacturing expense is added in, the production cost rises to $200.10. The bill of materials for the iPhone 6 Plus amounts to $211.10, and rises to $215.60 with the $4.50 manufacturing cost added, IHS said. …

Cloud computing sales to triple by 2017, new forecast says

Corporate spending on cloud computing is headed sky high, according to a report Friday from IHS Technology (IHS). Cloud-related tech spending by businesses is forecast to triple from 2011 to 2017, the research firm said. By 2017, enterprise spending on cloud computing will amount to a projected $235.1 billion, triple the $78.2 billion spent in 2011, IHS said. This year, global business spending for infrastructure and services related to the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion, up 20% from the amount spent in 2013. Cloud services, applications, security and data analytics will account for an ever-growing portion of total information technology spending by enterprises, valued today at about $2 trillion, IHS analyst Jagdish Rebello said in a statement. “The robust growth will come as an increasing number of large and small enterprises move more of their applications to the cloud, while also looking at data analytics to drive…

Big Brother means big business for video surveillance firms

The market for video surveillance systems is hot thanks to concerns about terrorism and other crimes and the pressures on law enforcement to identify the perpetrators quickly. Case in point: For the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Panasonic has supplied the largest quantity of security cameras in the history of the Olympic Games. In total, Panasonic has installed 6,903 security camera systems at Olympic facilities there. The Winter Olympics will run from Feb. 7 to 23. The worldwide market for video surveillance gear is expected to grow by more than 12% this year, market research firm IHS (IHS) says. Revenue is expected to rise to $15.9 billion in 2014 from $14.1 billion in 2013. IHS predicts that the video surveillance equipment market will hit $23.2 billion in sales in 2017. “During the past decade, the video surveillance equipment market has grown quickly, expanding at a double-digit rate in most years,”…