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TMT Predictions 2008

What's going to happen in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) sector in 2008? These reports offer our predictions of the trends and key issues facing the sector over the coming year. They are designed to provide a diverse selection of views and thoughts to engage and inform the reader.

Technology Predictions

Technology Predictions
Some important topics for the Technology sector for 2008 are:

  • The rising value of digital protection
  • The flight to privacy
  • From anonymity to authenticity
  • A digital divide for the Digerati
  • From zero to hero: nanotechnology’s green renaissance
  • Let there be light: the year when LEDs go green, white and read all over
  • Getting value from virtualisation
  • Managing talent when legacy is the future
  • The challenge and opportunity of water scarcity
  • The year we learn about XRBL: XBRL starts getting XL
   
Media Predictions

Media Predictions
Some important topics for the Media sector for 2008 are:

  • Obstacles ahead for the online ad
  • Forget the e-Book. Bring on the eReference.
  • The living room moves closer to being public enemy number one
  • Long live traditional television, thanks to Internet television.
  • Overcoming online piracy may not mean the end of counterfeit content
  • Cinema is about more than the movies
  • Time for music to get physical again
  • Stop The Presses! Online is Moving (Slowly) To the Front Page
  • Off-shoring gets bigger and more creative in the media sector
  • Converging technology and media: Don’t forget the business plan

 
   
Telecommunications

Telecommunications Predictions
Some important topics for the Telecommunications sector for 2008 are:

  • From credit crunch to communications crisis
  • Capitalising on the 10 dollar mobile phone
  • Prey becomes predator
  • Giving mobile GPS direction
  • Grey is good: the return on investment from accessibility
  • GSM comes of age
  • The disruption of disruption: how incumbents can convert threats into opportunities
  • Network sharing to lead the drive for indoor coverage
  • Questioning the need for speed
  • Exploiting new media’s growing need to communicate
 
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Page Last Updated: 22 January 2008
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