Das IT-Marktforschungs- und Beratungsunternehmen Gartner hat die aus seiner Sicht zehn wichtigsten strategischen Technologien und Trends für Unternehmen für das Jahr 2010 zusammengestellt: Neben ausgesprochenen Evergreens und neben z. B. Green IT und Social Computing findet sich hier auch erstmals das Top-Thema "Mobile Computing":
"By year-end 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing a rich environment for the convergence of mobility and the web. There are already many thousands of applications for platforms such as the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market and need for unique coding. It may take a newer version that is designed to flexibly operate on both full PC and miniature systems, but if the operating system interface and processor architecture were identical, that enabling factor would create a huge turn upwards in mobile application availability."
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