Happy 2013! The holidays are over and the New Year has begun. This week’s roundup takes a look back at the best (and worst) in mobile for 2012, and contains some bold predictions for technology’s future.
News and Insights
- CIO - 20 Biggest Tech Winners of 2012
- TIME- 10 Tech-Industry Predictions for 2013, from the very likely to the far-fetched
- Forbes - 10 Predictions For The Mobile Industry In 2013
- Forbes - Top Five Mobility Lessons Learned In 2012 For CIOs
- CIO - Microsoft’s 13 Biggest Wins and Fails of 2012 including Windows 8
- CIO - 6 Steps IT Can Take to Bring Business Into Tablet Decisions
- MediaPost - Microsoft beats Apple’s App Store in ‘innovation’ in ABI Research’s app store rankings
- InformationWeek - 7 Enterprise Mobility Predictions For 2013
- The Verge - Surface Pro release date set for late January
- Mashable - Can CES survive the mobile revolution?
- GigaOm - What we’ll see from Apple in 2013: predictions
- Fast Company - 16 of the year’s best ideas in UI design
Research
- Business Insider – The top mobile infographics of 2012
- Flurry – 2012 Christmas Day tablet activations up 300% from 2011
- Yankee Group - Blackberrys in use will grow to 270 million by 2016 due to upcoming BB10 platform
- comScore - comScore reports November 2012 U.S. Mobile Market Share; Android, Apple both see gains
- Asymco - Smartphones predicted to reach 80% saturation in the U.S. by August 2014
- Gartner – Worldwide devices spending, which includes mobile, expected to reach $666 billion in 2013
- Google - Jelly Bean now on 10% of Android phones
- Forrester – Businesses will spend $24 billion on iPads until 2014
- GfK Roper – Nearly 3/4 of smartphone owners bought something via mobile this holiday season
