March 28, 2012
"The universe of smart connected devices, including PCs, media tablets, and smartphones, saw shipments of more than 916 million units and revenues surpassing $489 billion dollars in 2011"

— Quote found at IDC Press Release “Nearly 1 Billion Smart Connected Devices Shipped in 2011 with Shipments Expected to Double by 2016, According to IDC”

March 2, 2012
"Organizations that continue to take enterprise mobility for granted will be swept aside in the new environment. Today, we’re seeing what we could call a ‘perfect storm’ created by the evolution of different areas of technology combining to fundamentally, and drastically change how organizations can use enterprise mobility to support business goals and strategies. New access networks, new devices, new mobile operating systems, applications, platforms and delivery models come together to create true and all-embracing enterprise mobility. If previous IT turning points for industry have been the move from mainframes to desktops and the growth of Internet, then new mobile devices and applications will constitute the next seismic shift."

Quote by Tim Dillon, IDC’s Associate Vice President for Asia/Pacific End-User and Mobility Research.  Quote found in an IDC Press Release titled “”Mobility becomes the Biggest Issue Driving IT in Asia/Pacific, Says IDC

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January 26, 2012
"The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the protagonist and subject of this instability. The winners in this evolving landscape will be those players that can capitalize on the global mobile gold rush and treat each user as a unique customer."

— Quote by Jason Armitage, senior analyst at Yankee Research.  Quote found in a Yankee press release:  Yankee Group’s Predictions: Instability Will Rule Mobility in 2012

November 26, 2011
"Looking out five years, Forrester sees three technology ‘trains’ impacting the future of workforce productivity, innovation, and advocacy. All three of these trains have left the station: enterprise mobility, enterprise social, and cloud services for business."

— Quote by  Matt Brown, vice president and practice leader at Forrester Research.  Quote found at Forrester Press Release:  Half of US Information Worrkers Split Time Between Office And Remote Locations

September 28, 2011
"Congestion does more than choke our highways, it chokes our economy, making it harder to buy what we need and harder to keep or find a job. That’s a bad thing – especially when our economic recovery is so fragile."

Quote by Tim Lomax, one of the authors of The 2011 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University.  Quote found at Traffic problems tied to the economy, study says

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March 25, 2011
"Some key mobile trends to watch in 2011 include Voice Search, Location Based Services, Video, Gaming, Event-Based Marketing, and Augmented Reality. On the horizon are applications like Mobile Video Collaboration solutions and 3D Mobile Internet allowing customers to browse 3D pictures/videos of products. All this has implications for business processes throughout the organization. Some older companies will need to change culture and transform workflows as a result."

Quote found at “Mobile Computing Poised To Impact B2B In 2011” via the HorizonWatching blog on Typepad

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November 5, 2010
"Unprecedented awareness about the hazards of automotive emissions, improved technologies for renewable energy, smart grids, and electric /hybrid vehicles has driven most companies around the world to search for more sustainable and profitable models for mobility"

— Quote by Mr. Darren George, Frost & Sullivan Global Customer Research Director in a press release “Frost & Sullivan Starts Worldwide Urban Mobility Research; 24,000 Commuters in 20 Cities to be Interviewed over 12 months”

June 16, 2010
"With more than one trillion devices expected to be connected to the Internet by next year, organizations are struggling to find ways to more accurately gather, share and gain insight through smart devices. By 2015, there will be 20 times more mobile data and content and 40 times more mobile transaction spending – increasing the need for improved management of data, traffic and network bandwidth constraints, and services across the entire mobile business market."

Quote from IBM Press Release:  IBM Delivers a New Level of Intelligence to the Expanding Mobile Business Market

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