By Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun
Tablets and augmented reality are in, laptops and software giants are out. That’s part of the scenario that business information technology experts SAP envision for 2011. SAP is a German-based international business software company. Following on a year of fundamental shifts in the technological landscape, they indicated Wednesday in their widely circulated newsletter that they’re expecting more of the same in the next 12 months. Aggregating predictions and observations from a variety of IT market researchers, they’re listing nine trends to emerge this year -beginning with an accelerating mania for smartphones and tablet-type computers that will grab as much as a third of the global market for personal computers by 2013.
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