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Five mobile technologies that didn't change the world
Last year we all got excited about mobile-computing products that failed to deliver
By Mike Elgan
February 25, 2012 07:00 AM ET
Computerworld - It's an awesome time to be a gadget-happy consumer electronics freak. Multi-touch user interfaces. Huge advances in miniaturization and battery life. Cloud-based storage. Mobile computing has never been better.
But sometimes, when companies announce incredible new products or technologies, and everybody proclaims that a new era has dawned, and that culture-shifting transformations are about to take place -- nothing happens.
Here are five mobile technologies from last year that were supposed to change the world, but didn't.
Which one are discussed, here: http://www.computerw...hange_the_world
Last year we all got excited about mobile-computing products that failed to deliver
By Mike Elgan
February 25, 2012 07:00 AM ET
Computerworld - It's an awesome time to be a gadget-happy consumer electronics freak. Multi-touch user interfaces. Huge advances in miniaturization and battery life. Cloud-based storage. Mobile computing has never been better.
But sometimes, when companies announce incredible new products or technologies, and everybody proclaims that a new era has dawned, and that culture-shifting transformations are about to take place -- nothing happens.
Here are five mobile technologies from last year that were supposed to change the world, but didn't.
Which one are discussed, here: http://www.computerw...hange_the_world
