Social Media & Technology Predictions for 2012

·          Top Predictions for social media in 2012   

• Privacy will be given top priority  
• Complete decentralization of social networks                                                             
• Our interaction with search engines will be revolutionized                                              
• Rise of the content aggregators                                                                               
• Social media augmented reality                                                                                 
• Influencer marketing will be redefined

·               .   Facebook set to reach 1 billion users by 2012   

   .  Smartphone sales to surpass combined PC & Laptop sales by 2012.

·                . Cloud Computing implementation to double by 2012.

·              .  Plastic Money  loses relevance .Near field communications (NFC) and mobile payments will  accelerate.

·              . Blu-Ray Disc  will be 50% of the market by 2012   

·               . Mobile-Phone Companies Team Up for Standardized Charger by 2012

·      Talking cars to be on the road by 2012   .

    

·         IBM to deliver world's first 20 Petaflop Supercomputer by 2012   

·         95% of enterprise workers will use Instant Messaging (IM) as primary interface for real-time communications    

 

·         WiMAX to cover 1 billion users by 2012   

·          50 million projectors built into phones by 2012   

·         900 HDTV channels by 2012   

·         Social media users to exceed one billion by 2012   

·         25% of Entertainment by 2012 Will be Created and Consumed Within Peer Communities   

·         Nearly 24 million subscribers to use 3G LTE technology for mobile broadband services by 2012   

·         Mobile VoIP users to hit 250 million by 2012   

·          Invisible military  tank ready for service by 2012   

·         Global Ethernet market will exceed £15bn in 2012 

·          Mobile TV Worth $6.6 Billion & 120 Million Viewers By 2012   

·         Google to tell us what we want by 2012   

·         Online ad spending to double to $ 35.4 billion by 2012  

·          Online gaming to cross  $13 billion by 2012   

·         Global mobile broadcast TV subscribers to exceed 150 million in 2012   

     .     Gmail storage to reach 3560 MB by 2012   

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Wi-Fi phones will disappear from the market by 2012   

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Broadband to reach almost half a billion subscribers worldwide by 2012   

·         Residential VoIP users to hit 267m by 2012   

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iPod will release a new model by 2012 capable of holding a whole year's worth of video contact   

·         India To Have 13 Million Wireless Broadband Subscribers By 2012   

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·         The Web will be out of IPv4 addresses by 2012   .IPV6 will emerge as the new standard.

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