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10 Predictions for 2012

Cringely breaks out the divining rod and Ouija board to come up with his top 10 tech predictions for the new year.

By Robert X. Cringely, Infoworld

Dec 31, 2011 6:00 pm

PCWorld

Last year I made several predictions for what the tech world would see in 2011, and I'm both proud and deeply surprised to report some of them actually came true. For example, I predicted that Facebook's population would surpass that of India and it would apply for membership in the United Nations. That was wrong. India still leads Facebook by a comfortable margin of about 300 million. But I was right in predicting that Mark Zuckerberg would shave for the first time.

I suggested that Google would introduce its own social network (correct!) called GoogleMe (incorrect!) that would suffer some privacy controversy (correct again!) and eventually die off everywhere but in Brazil (still to be determined). Google Android did become the most popular smartphone platform, as predicted, but average battery life for an Android handset still clocks in at just under an hour -- I thought that might be fixed by now.

I correctly prognosticated IPOs for Pandora and Groupon, but missed the boat on Skype (acquired by Microsoft), Tumblr, Twitter, and Rovio (stay tuned). Also, AOL did not reacquire Time Warner for a ridiculous sum, but it did almost as well by obtaining the Huffington Post for a ridiculous sum.

With that kind of track record I had to try again for 2012 -- which, if my predictions are correct, will be the last year I or anyone else gets to do this. Here are my top 10 prognostications for the new year.

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International IT House is an established firm with a defined goal to develop and market the Major business lines such as:

۩       Software Development & Maintenance

 ۩       Information Technology Strategic Planning

 ۩       Enterprise Architecture Planning

 ۩       Smart Card Based Application Development

 ۩       Operational Site Support & Maintenance

 ۩       Network Design and Implementation

 ۩       Technical Training

 The company was founded in 2003 at Dubai Internet City located as the ICT hub of Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) territory with an intention to cater to the needs of the business community and after 8 years since its inception the company is still committed to its work and growing steadily towards its goal.

 At International IT House, We help our customers to take advantage of IT in overcoming various day-to-day business problems. We help them save time and reduce redundancy in the organization. As a gold partner of  Feitian and ARH companies and locating in the center of world businesses in the middle east , International IT House has ventured into developing a series of products such as smart cards and chip operating system based security technologies, Authentication USB keys and PKI middlewares ranging from Internet banking, e-government, e-education, enterprise networking and more, as well as multi type  smart card and smart card readers with best of breed applications ranging from card payment, strong authentication, telecommunication ,electronic identification.

 

ITHouse & Feitian:

 

ITHOUSE is a Gold Partner of Feitian which is Established in 1998, Feitian is dedicated to being the leading innovator of smartcard and chip operating system based security technologies and applications. Feitian's major business covers Software Protection, Strong Authentication, Smartcard COS and Peripherals.

Feitian cooperates closely with global leading smartcard chip providers, serves valuable customers with the world's latest technologies via its expanding sales and services network internationally.

Feitian's USB interfaced Software Protection Dongle, Strong Authentication USB Key, and Smartcard Reader are CE and FCC certified and RoHS compliant. Today, Feitian High performance and Low cost devices and solutions are widely accepted from personal application to enterprise system globally.

 

ITHOUSE IS A GOLD PARTNER OF ARH COMPNAY:

      

 

ITHOUSE is a gold partner of ARH Compnay, a recognized leader in R&D, designing and manufacturing of innovative image processing technologies, ARH produces various imaging devices, software and biometric products. ARH’s core strength is applying its 20 years of experience of various image processing know how like ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) and ID document reading. Today, more than 2,200 satisfied partners in more than 190 countries are using ARH’s technology. For more information about products and services in this filed ,For more information in  this regard please check out the Products and Services part or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it