Industry analysis organization Gartner announced four major trends for the next few years. This blog post projects implications for data mining (in general).
Prediction #1: “By 2013, 33 percent of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices.”
From their text, they include the tablet, which you may remember having seen from previous-released laptops with flippable screens (to make them a tablet with a stylus). The obvious technology which has driven this topic is the Apple iPad, but others are on the way, and vendors are trying to cash in on the wave of renewed interest in tablet devices. I recently purchased a small Asus computer, larger than a netbook, but allowing me to blog from just about anywhere. Asus also made a tablet announcemet at the Computer Electronics Show recently.
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