Tag: PREDICTIONS

With the advent of powerful Internet-enabled mobile phones, it's no secret that mobile browsers are accounting for a larger share of web traffic all the time. In fact, one firm says that the growth of mobile browsers is so rapid, they'll soon overtake traditional desktop browsers. Research and analysis specialists Gartner, Inc. are predicting that "by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the ...

Just a few days after Microsoft rolled out a new traffic prediction feature for Windows Live Maps, Google has followed suit with traffic predictions for Google Maps. Both services use historical traffic data to predict likely congestion points and travel time in the future. But there are two major differences: Windows Live Maps will suggest the best driving directions for avoiding traffic, ...

What will happen in 2007? Who knows what the future holds, right? I am willing to bet that you already have a good idea what will happen next year. Care to share? I want to hear what you are most looking forward to this year, are there any apps that you think will go critical and be the next big thing? Also, what was your favorite app of 2006? Let me know. In case you can't remember your ...

I'm not much for my prognostication myself--which is to say that I'm terribly bad at it--but it seems like everyone else in the tech industry can't get enough of it. The LA Times has predictions from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, paidContent's Rafat Ali, Wired editor Chris Anderson, and other industry notables. Ali predicts that talents bred on the internet will start breaking out, getting their ...

No, not predictions for the coming year; predictions for the past year: Wired News' Joanna Glasner has written a piece in which she collects the tech predictions pundits made about 2005 and determines whether their crystal balls were, to mix metaphors, loaded or shooting duds. The winners are Robert Cringely and Rob Enderle, and the losers Michael Robertson and IDC. It's a short article, but a fun ...

So far I've avoided the predictions-for-'06 lists just for sheer volume (if you've spotted any particularly good ones, though, please hit up our tips form) but Philipp Lenssen's mostly Google-centric 15 Search Predictions for 2006 at Google Blogoscoped is pretty good. He gives a probability for each of his predictions: Web-wide Google video search? 80%. Graphical ads on Google.com? 40%. Google ...