IDC: Mobile Internet Will Open Wide in '08
Wireless carriers will be pushed toward openness in the coming year.
By Brad Reed
Some of IDC's other major predictions for 2008 are:
- Worsening U.S. economic forecasts will lead to slower worldwide IT market growth. IDC projects that overall, the IT market will grow by 5.5% to 6% worldwide, while U.S. IT spending could drop 3% to 4%.
- Major market movers, such as Microsoft, Cisco, Google and IBM, will move strongly into the software-as-a-service market.
- The spread of Web 2.0 technology, such as Facebook and YouTube exemplify, will spur the market for content distribution networks to grow by "at least 30%." This rapid market growth will mean that several companies, including such telcos as AT&T, will jump into the CDN market and compete with traditional CDN leaders Akamai and Limelight Networks.
- Companies that traditionally have focused on consumer markets, including Google, eBay, Yahoo and Apple, will begin making offerings to small-to-midsize businesses. Conversely, companies such as IBM, who have traditionally focused on enterprise markets, will begin thinking of how to market services and products to consumers.
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