The expected steady increase in mobile traffic is partly due to continued strong growth in the number of mobile Internet connections (personal devices and machine-to-machine applications), which will exceed the world?s population (United Nations estimates 7.6 billion).
IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012 as business confidence waned in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff?," economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia struggled to cope with reduced exports.
A survey has suggested that data center investment cycles are contracting, which fundamentally changes the approach that data center professionals must follow when considering short- and longer-term infrastructure deployments.
The world?s leading notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODM) will endure a bleak first quarter and slow first half in 2013, before ultrathin PC sales help revive the market later in the year.
Ovum?s survey revealed that 68 percent of the Internet population across 11 countries would select a ?do-not-track? (DNT) feature if it was easily available, suggesting that a data black hole could soon open up under the Internet economy.
Smartphones and media tablets continue to the prime movers of technology industries, with the two mobile platforms spurring a double-digit increase in the market for microelectromechanical system (MEMS) motion sensors this year.
Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 91.1 percent of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12).
Despite a 10% year-over-year increase for the full year 2012, the color laser market declined 1% in Q4 as ongoing weakness in the global economy finally caught up with this segment.
